Our June virtual meeting features two local speakers on topics we all need to know more about. The short class topic is Top Ten Countdown: How to Find a Birth Year Without a Birth Certificate by Amy Urman. Birth certificates are a fairly recent phenomenon. Most states did not have a state vital records office in operation until the early 20th century. Amy will describe other ways to acquire birth information.
Amy Urman is an experienced speaker, Professional Genealogist and Private Investigator. She holds a certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University and the National Genealogical Society American Genealogy Course. She is a graduate of ProGen and serves as a ProGen Coordinator. She has completed intensive training in Forensic Research, Advanced Research Tools: Land Research, The Family History Law Library, Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum, and Corpus Juris: Advanced Legal Concepts for Genealogy. She spent twenty years working in a law office researching and hanging around courthouses prior to striking out on her own. Amy now owns her own Private Investigative agency, Nosy Wilma LLC. She has served in numerous volunteer and leadership positions for several state societies. She is the co-founder and current president of the Pima County Genealogy Society and Vice President of the Grand Canyon APG Chapter.
Our guest speaker is Moreen Ferdie, PLCGS, speaking on The Ins and Outs of Newspaper Research. Newspapers are a great source of family history details. Newspapers give facts and tell stories of our ancestor’s lives. We will learn some tips and tricks to searching newspapers, briefly cover what different facts one can learn about their ancestors in newspapers, and look at a number of newspaper websites and databases (including how to effectively search them).
Moreen Ferdie, PLCGS, is a graduate of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies in American Records, Methodology, and Eastern European Records. She is a professional genealogist. Moreen has been researching her family history for a number of years. Her specialties are Jewish, Eastern European, and Newspapers. She is the Vice President of the Southern Arizona Genealogy Society (SAGS), formerly know as the Green Valley Genealogical Society. She plans the educational opportunities for SAGs in her role as VP. Moreen currently volunteers two afternoons a week at the Tucson Family History Center and is the facilitator for the Jewish Genealogy Group that meets there.
Our monthly meetings begin at 1:00 pm Arizona time (PDT). They are free and open to members and non-members alike. However, participants in our virtual Zoom meetings are required to register in advance for security reasons. After registering, the registrant will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The link to register for the June 20 meeting is https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc-qqrTwoHdOL3kJWGzDODLfkPxDznKzl.
The handouts are available to PCGS members on our website in the Secure Download area and the recording will be available to members in the Videos area. Not a member? Go to our website’s Join/Renew page and see how easy it is to join online!
As we will not be meeting in person, there will not be door prizes. Nor will it be possible to play the Relatives Around Me game during the break. However, we hope that by continuing our monthly meetings in this format provides some comfort to our members knowing that they are staying safe while maintaining some semblance of normalcy in their routines.
DISCLAIMER: We are limited to 100 participants, but Zoom does not stop approving registrations when it reaches the 100 mark. A successful registration does not guarantee a seat in the virtual meeting.
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