Western New York Roots

FAMILY HISTORY
SOURCES & RESOURCES
MARCH 1, 2008
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
A Community-Wide Seminar for both Beginners and Experienced Researchers

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
145 Goodell Street at Michigan Street
Buffalo, New York
Fhsourcesandresources@yahoo.com

Pre-registration is advised but not required. Email fhsourcesandresources@yahoo.com and indicate in the subject line “registration”. A list of the classes will be emailed to you and you can indicate which classes you would like to attend.

March 2008 Meeting

15 March 2008 - Saturday - Hamburg Senior High School

10:30 A.M. Brief Business Meeting

10:45 A.M. David Newman of the Polish Genealogical Society of New York State will be speaking on how the Polish came to western NY and also on researching Polish ancestry locally and in Poland. This should be a very interesting meeting and people are encouraged to bring their research questions and problems with them to the meeting and Dave will try to answer all of your questions and point you in the right direction to solve your problems.

OGS Conference '08

You are invited to the largest genealogy and technology Conference in Canada. Conference 2008 is sponsored by the Ontario Genealogical Society.

Just a few days ago the Fall 2007 issue of Western New York Heritage Magazine arrived at my door. A few of the articles covered in this issue include:
Distant View of Niagara Falls
Graycliff: The Natural House
Intimate Spirits: Remembering the Art and Lives of Annie Crawford & Emma Kaan
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
C.D. Arnold: A Famous Photographer No One Knew

For more information, visit their website - http://wnyheritagepress.org/

To all friends and family,

Below is a web site, that I would like you all to look at. A girl I went to high school with suffered a great tragedy in July. She gave birth to her second son, and then shortly after went into cardiac arrest and is in a coma. She has two young boys waiting for her at home. If you can help, just a little bit, I would really appreciate it. This one hit me hard, you never know how short life is. So remember to give your children extra kisses and dont wait to do everything you want to. Please pray for Lisa and her family.

http://www.lisacharlapfund.com

Find out more about what WNYRoots.com can do for you. Listen to the first ever WNYRoots Talkcast in the blue box over to your left!

In this talkcast I describe many of the features of WNYRoots and give step by step directions. The best way to listen to this and follow along is to click on the section of the talkcast box labeled, "Visit my talkcast." When the new page opens, look in the middle near the bottom you'll see a small blue square labeled download. Right click on the square and go to "Save Target As..." This will allow you to download the talkcast to your hard drive so you can follow along.

Well... actually the deal is too good to be true but it wasn't a couple weeks ago. I was reading Randy Seaver's blog and came across a posting where he talked about a website selling Family Tree Maker 16 with a free 1-year subscription to ancestry.com for only $15.49 + S&H. I was curious about the validity of this deal so I went to the website and ordered it. I figured even though there is a new version of Family Tree Maker out the software included in the package is still worth the $15. (It actually came to $20.18 with shipping.) Honestly, I was just hoping the free year of ancestry wasn't a scam.
Well, It turns out...

This years Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of this years conference is "Footprints of Family History." Find out more at FGS.org.

I wouldn't normally post something like this on the front page but this is funny! Click 'Read More'. I got it off of Dick Eastman's blog.