Genealogy Center | Select Recent Acquisitions | December 2021

compiled by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Finding and using African American newspapers by Timothy N. Pinnick. Wyandotte, OK: Gregarth Publishing Co., 2008. 305.896 Pinnick The Census book: facts, schedules & worksheets for the U.S. federal censuses by William Dollarhide. Orting, WA: Family Roots Publishing Col., 2019. Includes information on […]

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The Christmas Tree in America

Did you know? / Lark Robart

by AGS Member Philip Spivey The Christmas Tree stands as one of the most iconic images of the holiday season in America. Bringing trees into our homes, decorating them, and putting presents underneath is embedded in our culture. It’s hard to imagine Christmas without it. But that was not always the case. In 1848, this

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US Census Bureau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

AGS To Work With 1950 Federal Census

AGS Projects / Lark Robart

by AGS member Mike Blackledge | updated 5 Mar 2022 (scroll to the bottom) The National Archives releases a federal census to the public 72 years after the day the census was taken. Because census day in 1950 was 1 April, the 1950 census will be released on the same date in 2022 – just

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Stories of Early Albuquerque

Review / Lark Robart

review by AGS member Mike Wilson Some of you might not know that AGS member and former Quarterly editor Rosemary McNerney Winkler compiled the stories she wrote and commissioned about early Albuquerque families into a book that is now available. You might like to have a copy, or it could be a perfect present for

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Check the Facts

Tips & Techniques / Lark Robart

by AGS member Philip Spivey Like this picture? It was uploaded to Ancestry and FamilySearch in 2012 as a picture of a Thomas Hicks born about 1710 in North Carolina and died in 1775. This picture has been shared by 285 people on Ancestry and appears in their family trees. You will also find it

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