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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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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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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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
compiled by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Bound in wedlock: slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century by Tera W. Hunter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. 305.896 Hunter African American historic burial grounds and gravesites of New England by Glenn A. Knoblock. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co,
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by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County One of the most difficult aspects of genealogy research can be finding the connection between the immigrants’ arrival in the United States and the home country. The Genealogy Center has an incredible set of books designed to assist you in identifying your German
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by AGS Member Lark M. Robart First, I want to give a shout-out to our upcoming program on military records by AGS President Philip Spivey. The topic is Military Records: A Wealth of Information on Those Who Served. Watch your email in the next few days for the Zoom link. The program is scheduled for
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by AGS Member Lark M. Robart Recently, I’ve been hearing and reading that it’s possible to find family-related items on eBay just by searching either on a surname or location. So I thought I’d give it a try. I didn’t have much luck searching on surnames but I did have some luck searching on place names.
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by AGS Member Laura Weber Like so many at the start of the pandemic, my time at work was a little less while my time at home was a great deal more – a genealogy hobbyist’s dream! I started to explore opportunities to expand my training and education and in addition to countless webinars, I
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by Lark M. Robart Over the last few years, since I “retired” and have more time for reading, I’ve learned that historical nonfiction books are a great way to help fill in the blanks of our ancestor stories. Let me give you a few examples. The Conquest of the Missouri by Joseph Mills Hanson My great
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