Legacy Family Tree Webinars are open to register for 2021

 

MyHeritage and FamilyTreeWebinars.com are pleased to announce that registration is now open for its 2021 Legacy Family Tree Webinars series, now in its 12th year. Choose from 120 classes from genealogy's leading educators on topics ranging from Prussia to Ireland to Samoa, from Zotero to WordPress, from The National Road to Angel Island to the 1890 census, and from the top 10 DNA do's and don'ts to the genealogy of your house. We are also introducing the brand new "African Diaspora" and "O Canada" series, PLUS we have increased the attendance capacity of live webinars to include up to 3,000 live viewers.

Update on Panes

 

Please note the following information:

We realize that many people who are researching their Hispanic roots may come across this website. We would like to invite them to join us and take advantage of the information that we continually add by including them on our email list. Therefore we are working on requiring a registration process that will include your email and the formation of a password. The system isn't in place yet so you may continue using the site without logging in even though the instructions say otherwise. Just click search and browse as always. We will let you know when all is ready. Thank you for your patience.

5 Brits Take A DNA Test

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Five Britons took a DNA test to find out our ancestry. Many of them have an idea of where they came from, but they wanted to see how much they really knew about their family history. 23andMe's DNA testing kit gives you a detailed breakdown of your DNA makeup, sometimes even detailing the region of each country your family came from. The results were pretty surprising. 

'The View' Hosts Get DNA Results From Sponsor Ancestry

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What is Triangulation with DNA

 Triangulation Concepts and Tools

What is triangulation? How do you go about it? And why it is important for genealogy. 

The best way to describe it is triangulation allows you to confirm your ancestors or ancestral lines when you are able to match with at least two other people who have their trees posted and you share a great grandparent (usually third cousin or fourth cousins) on the same reasonably sized segment of DNA.

With this you can identify a common ancestor or ancestral couple who has passed that segment of DNA to all of the people who match on that segment of DNA.

Take a refresher course thru SCGS 2021 Jamboree Webinar Extension series.

 

We are letting our members know that the Southern California Genealogical Society is hosting their 2021 Jamboree Webinar Extension series again this upcoming year. Take advantage and choose a course that will help educate your genealogy research or how to organize your material. This is a worth while organization to think about joining also. Please go to their website for information on membership and what benefits they can offer you. 

GSHA-SC Writer's Workshop Sunday 27, 2020 2 to 4pm Zoom Meeting

 

Dear Members and Friends of GSHA-SC:

Now that you have taken care of everyone else, why not gift yourself two hours to write your family story with our in-house poet and expert, Karen Cordova?? Please see the attached flier and join the fun this holiday season. It's a Zoom workshop.

Mark your calendar today and contact Karen.

In the meantime, stay safe and remember, better days are ahead but we need to help protect others. Give elderly friends a call and support.

You must be a member of the society to participate.

Emotional DNA results

Alex finally gets his 23 and me DNA test results back and they are shocking! He gets very emotional learning about his heritage and where his ancestors are from. His reaction to his DNA test results are priceless! To watch the video hit here

We took a DNA test to see if I'm adopted!

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Yolanda Nava ! Culture, Virtue, and Tradition with Yolanda Nava, Author

 

Here is the link to the event.
https://lapca.org/event/culture-virtue-and-tradition-with-yolanda-nava-author/?event_date=2020-12-16
Description:
Culture, Virtue, and Tradition with Yolanda Nava, Author

Join us on Zoom and Facebook Live as author Yolanda Nava discusses the digital audio release of her ground-breaking book, “It’s All in the Frijoles: 100 Famous Latinos Share Real-Life Stories, Time-Tested Dichos, Favorite Folktales, and Inspiring Words of Wisdom,” sharing the inspiration, faith and spirituality inherent in Latino culture.

Mulattos of Cochiti: Caste, Race, and Identity in Colonial New Mexico

 Our Utah chapter is sharing a presentation given by Rob Martinez, PhD, State Historian of New Mexico. It is unknown how long the presentation will be able to be view. To watch it, hit here There will be a passcode requirement. Please type the following: Ptb%9&+6

Introduction to GSHA Blog page

www.ghsaa.org

Hello,

The GSHA board is excited to announce the roll-out of the GSHA Blog page on the GSHA website, Wednesday, December 9th.

To cut costs and move to a modern means of communications and receive information in a timelier manner, instead of every 3 months. the GSHA blog will replace the GSHA Newsletter. This allows all of us to participate in GSHA information gathering and sharing, to send and receive current genealogical, historical articles and presentation dates and times. Also, the GSHA Board can post information on the status of GSHA, financial, conference and web site updates, as they occur. It also gives you, the member, a place to post your short stories and antecedents of your family history.

Let me make this perfectly clear, this does not replace the Nuestra Raices journal, and I encourage you to continue submitting your articles for the journalistic and editorial expertise of the journal staff. Although GSHA members are the heart of GSHA, the journal is the brain and it will continue to be the main source of the in-depth journalism we have come to expect from Ms. Nelson and staff, for which they have provided us over these many years.

The GSHA blog is more informational and for short personal stories of your family history or historical events. So, please consider submitting your stories, genealogical events, and announcements to the blog. Articles must be in electronic form and it is your responsibility for grammar and punctuation. We will not be editors or gatekeepers of the information, though articles will be archived on the blog page, for future references. So, please do not plagiarize or violate the copyright of someone else's work, please get permission, in writing before including in your article. This can jeopardize GSHA’s good name and burden GSHA with great financial liability.

So, how do I submit an article for posting? I am glad you asked. Lynda (Sena) Kouba, GSHA secretary, has agreed to be the receiver of these items and will be the main posting person for our blog. The GSHA representatives will be our field reporters for their respective chapters. They will encourage and receive articles from their chapter members and email articles to Mrs. Kouba for posting. Members may email their articles to Mrs. Kouba at gsha.secretary@gmail.com directly. Again, all items must be in electronic form, any article that cannot be posted because of its format will be returned to the submitter for correction(s). Contact information will be at the end of this announcement.

I am excited about our blog and I hope you will take advantage of being more involved in GSHA’s growth and involvement in genealogical exploration. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me or any of the officers or chapter reps.

Also, those members that do not have access to a computer, you can access the GSHA blog using your smartphone. Just type in www.gshaa.org/blog, in your browser.

Sincerely,

Bob Craig
GSHA President
president@gshaa.org

GSHA Board
Tom Martinez, Vice President
gsha.vp@gshaa.org

Lynda (Sena) Kouba, Secretary
gsha.secretary@gsha.com
Albert Garcia, Treasurer
gsha.treasurer@gmail.com
GSHA representatives
Patsy Vazquez, Southern California chapter representative
Jessica Tidball, Fray Angelico Chavez chapter representative
John Martinez, Utah chapter representative
Arturo Cuellar, Member at Large representative
Contact info:
Lynda (Sena) Kouba gsha.secretary@gmail.com
Patsy Vasquez gsha.screp@gmail.com
Arturo Cuellar gsha.malrep@gmail.com
John Martinez gsha.utahrep@gmail.com
Jessica Tidball, FACC rep, Ms. Tidball is in the medical care field, though not a frontline worker, her job is quite critical and presently is knee deep in monitoring the Covid-19 pandemic for the health provider that she works for. FACC members, please send articles directly to Mrs. Kouba.

Get excited! 1950's Census is just around the corner.

The date April 1, 2022 can’t come fast enough! Why? Because that is the date of the release of the 1950 United States census. As you wait for the release of the census, learn more about what you can expect from the 1950 census and what records you can search in the meantime!

The 1950 census encompassed the continental United States, the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and some of the smaller island territories.

Americans abroad were enumerated for the first time in 1950. Provisions were made to count members of the armed forces, crews of vessels, and employees of the United States government living in foreign countries, along with any members of their families also abroad. This enumeration was carried out through cooperative arrangements with the departments of Defense and State, the United States Maritime Administration and other federal agencies that took responsibility for distributing and collecting specially designed questionnaires.

Other persons living abroad were to be reported by their families or neighbors in the United States, but the quality of these data was considered to be poor and they were not included in the published statistics.

A new survey on residential financing was conducted as part of the 1950 census. In a separate operation, information was collected on a sample basis from owners of owner-occupied and rental properties and mortgage lenders.

To read a pdf copy of the procedures and download a copy, hit here

The National Archives releases a census to the public only 72 years after the day the census was taken. Because census day in 1950 was April 1, the 1950 census will be released to the public on the same date in 2022.

Understanding Your Relationship to DNA Matches After Autosomal Testing

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GSHA Fray Angelico Chavez Chapter Dec 12, 2020 Presentation "From the Steel City to Ph.D."

 The FACC will have Dr. Irene Blea on Zoom, Dec. 12, 10:00 a.m., PST(1:00 a.m. EST; 12:00 CST; 11:00 a.m. MST). The link to this presentation will be sent a couple of days before the event or if you wish to receive an invitation, please contact gsha.vp@gshaa.org and note the event.

 

Dr. Irene Blea is an award winning and internationally known author, scholar and poetess who draws from her family and personal history, plus her many years as a sociological researcher. She will reveal her journey from a northern New Mexico settlement to Colorado and why it is the focus of her next book, Erené with Wolf Medicine.

The former Puebloan will discuss how she writes, what she writes, and the underlying meaning of her work. The activist scholar and poet has evolved from writing with pencil, a pen, typewriter, and computer to embrace an Internet presence on blogs, Facebook, countless Zoom sessions, and Webinars.

Dr. Blea’s novel, Daughters of the West Mesa, is based on the discovery of 11 women and an unborn fetus in the desert west of Albuquerque. The novel was awarded the Best of Albuquerque in 1915.

She is the author of much poetry, numerous articles, the Suzanna trilogy, and 7 textbooks on women and race relations. Blea taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Metropolitan State College-Denver, as well as at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She retired as a Tenured Full Professor and Chairperson of Mexican American Studies at California State University-Los Angeles. Her work is best known for the style in which characters, including the environment and politics, are utilized in her writing. Dr. Irene Blea is frequently referred to as the Chicana novelist of these times.

Late Notice--Explore Ute horse culture with tribal representative and elders; How have horses shaped the history of Colorado and the West.

 

Coming Thursday: explore Ute horse culture with tribal representatives and elders

 

3 December Thursday / 6 pm MST 5pm PST

Zoom Video Conferencing / 

Join Up! Horse Traditions in Ute Culture & History

How have horses shaped the history of Colorado and the West? History Colorado seeks to answer this and other questions about the relationship between equines and humans in our state with a source-community initiative, Join Up! Exploring Equine Culture in Colorado.

In this second program in the Join Up! series, Southern Ute community members will share their stories and knowledge about horses - from the "kava" of pre-reservation life, to horses of the contemporary revival of rodeo competitions. Presentations and conversations from this program will contribute to the development of an exhibition on horse culture in Colorado.

This event is open to the public by suggested donation but registration is required.

Please consider supporting the Borderlands of Southern Colorado lecture series at Colorado Gives.

The Borderlands of Southern Colorado Lecture Series is generously supported by the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area and Colorado State University-Pueblo.

To here this presentation, you will need to register ahead of time at here

Exploring Jalisco's Indigenous People: Past and Present Dec 5, 2020 1pm

 You will need to register ahead of time at this link, hit here