Genealogy Center | Select Recent Acquisitions | September-October 2022

compiled by Lisa Kindrick and Laura Chapin | sorted by call number Biographies Only the echoes: the life of Howard Bass Cushing by Kenneth A. Randall.Las Cruces, N.M.: Yucca Tree Press, 1995.(Donated by Peter Ives)Biography Cushing Railroads The Directory of North American railroads, associations, societies, archives, libraries, museums and their collections compiled by Holly T. […]

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Book Review: The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England

Review / Lark Robart

by AGS Member Michael Blackledge The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England (2002, published by New England Historical Society) by D. Brenton Simons and Peter Benes presents several interesting viewpoints you may wish to consider regarding your family history and legacy. The 370 page book is a collection of 15 essays and two

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Genealogy Center | Select Recent Acquisitions | June-August 2022

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compiled by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Military Six frigates: the epic history of the founding of the U.S Navy by Ian W. Toll.New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.(Donated by RJ Korback) 359 Toll Family History Our grandfathers’ grandfather, their journey north: the Apodaca family, an untold story by

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AGS Grandparents at Work | Radio

Old Photos, Stories / Lark Robart

by AGS member Michael Wilson My grandfather, Leonard Wilson, was an early radio-station operator in Colorado. In 1928, he built radio station KGIW in Trinidad, Colorado, for his employer at the time, the Trinidad Creamery Company. The owner of the Creamery, Jack Jacobsen, thought that radio would be a good way for him to get

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AGS Grandparents at Work | Saloon Keeper, Switch board operator, Switch-engine engineer | Duplicate Bridge Teacher

Old Photos, Stories / Lark Robart

by AGS member Rosemary McNerney Winkler The Saloon Owner The Switch-Engine Engineer His wife, Pansy Woodward Tischhauser, taught Duplicate Bridge for many years. A Bridge team consists of four players. They are split into two pairs, and one pair sits North-South on one table while the other sits East-West on a second. A second team

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Genealogy Center | Select Recent Acquisitions | May 2022

Genealogy Center / Lark Robart

Click here to download a pdf copy of the Genealogy Center Selection Recent Acquisitions for May 2022. The list was compiled by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.

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50th Anniversary Celebration Event

Community / Lark Robart

by AGS Member Lark M. Robart (updated 20 September 2022) The big day was earlier this month on Saturday, May 7th! And it was a great day indeed. The day kicked off at 10:30 am in the Auditorium when Michael Blackledge presented Mayor Tim Keller’s Family History Day Proclamation in honor of Albuquerque Genealogical Society’s

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Genealogy Center | Select Recent Acquisitions | March-April 2022

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compiled by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County German immigrants in American church records / editor, Roger P. Minert, compilers, Jennifer A. Anderson [et al.] Rockport, ME.: Picton Press, 2005-2022. We added volumes 34-36 for Louisville, Kentucky. 285.1 German How to read a dress: a guide to changing fashion from the

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OAFs Rising!

Uncategorized / Lark Robart

by AGS member Michael Blackledge From Page 108 of the local history book on the New Arrival table at the Genealogy Center: The First Fifty Years: Within the Genealogy Club of Albuquerque, user groups and special interest groups (SIGs) soon developed for Apple computers, TRS-80 computers, Legacy and Family Tree Maker software, as well as the

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A great day at the Genealogy Center!

AGS Projects, Books authored by AGS Members, Genealogy Center / Lark Robart

by Lark M. Robart This week I had the great pleasure of attending the official presentation of the 50th anniversary book to the Genealogy Center at the Albuquerque Public Library on Wednesday afternoon, April 6th. The book was compiled and edited by Lynda Katonak, Mike Blackledge, Stuart Murray and Mike Wilson, and all four were

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AGS Grandparents at Work | Saloon Keeper, Switch board operator, Switch-engine engineer | Duplicate Bridge Teacher

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50th Anniversary Celebration Event

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