Italian Genealogical Group

Our March IGG webinar will be *free* and open to the public, taking a place on Saturday, March 13th at 11 AM (US/ET). Kelly Bodami will be premiering a brand new talk, "Navigating the Chaos: Finding your Italians (and others) in New York City". To attend, please visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lqNSBP2hR_KpO9dgklIqWQ - you MUST pre-register, it only takes a few seconds and you will receive an e-mail with all relevant details/links. Hope to see you then!

Reminder: the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, NJ is offering a *FREE* webinar, presented by IGG co-President Michael Cassara, and taking place *tonight* (Mon. 2/22 at 7 PM US/ET). "21st Century Italian Genealogy... with a New Jersey Focus!" will cover many aspects of contemporary research, particularly geared towards those researching Italian-Americans who settled in the New Jersey area. Still time to register - sign up here: https://www.njgsbc.org//21st-century-italian-genealogy-wi/

Registration is now open for our February IGG webinar, featuring Alec Ferretti premiering a BRAND NEW talk called "A-FILES BOOTCAMP". This meeting is FREE and OPEN to all - IGG member and non-members are welcome, but everyone must register using the Zoom registration link below. (Feel free to tag or share this post with anyone who might be interested!) WHEN: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 at 11 AM (US/eastern) - "doors" open at 10:45 AM (please note the slightly-later start-...time) If you joined us for our January presentation with Judy G. Russell, Judy discussed the incredibly valuable things one might find in alien registration records. Alec’s talk continues that spirited discussion, diving deep into the nuts and bolts of how one can obtain these records using numerous examples, and a number of Italian-American case studies. "Learn about the single most insightful file series pertaining to 20th century immigrants to the United States. Held partially at the National Archives and partially by US Citizenship & Immigration Services, A-Files (short for Alien Files), exist for tens of millions of immigrants, spanning from immigrants who arrived last week to people born in the mid 19th century! You may find handwritten letters, photographs, birth certificates from abroad, arrest records, and countless other documents! This talk will explain who will have an A-File, how to locate them, and what information it might contain!" https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FycyOWp0ScSmDRL3ZaCIIA

Last minute reminder: there's still time to register for tomorrow's free webinar! (This is taking place on Saturday, January 9th at 10:45 AM US/Eastern). This month's webinar is FREE and OPEN to members and non-members! We're thrilled to be welcoming Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist, who will be giving her popular talk "Martha Benschura - Enemy Alien". Alien registration records are INCREDIBLY valuable to Italian-American genealogists (as well as those researching German-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc.), and Judy's case study and talk will be extremely beneficial. Free and open to all, so don't hesitate to tell your friends. All registration details can be found at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GBsu20meQdKhfXSvVL3gCA

Hi everyone - we hope this finds you all well as this challenging year comes to a close. Our next webinar will be on January 9th at 10:45 AM (US/Eastern) - and it is FREE and OPEN to members and non-members! We're thrilled to be welcoming Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist, who will be giving her popular talk "Martha Benschura - Enemy Alien". Alien registration records are INCREDIBLY valuable to Italian-American genealogists, and Judy's case study and talk will be extremely beneficial. Advance registration is required, but again - free and open to all, so don't hesitate to tell your friends. All registration details can be found at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GBsu20meQdKhfXSvVL3gCA Here's to a terrific 2021!

Hi everyone - this is not an Italian Genealogical Group, Inc. event, but we told our friends at NGS and FamilySearch that we'd be happy to pass it along. The deadline to register is *TODAY*, so act fast! The National Genealogical Society and FamilySearch are partnering for a one-time event and offering 2- hour ethnic and international workshops for just $35. The deadline to register for any of the six international and ethnic workshops on German, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Nat...ive American, and Swedish heritages, respectively, ends on Tuesday, July 7. Presented live online and hosted by NGS and FamilySearch, the workshops will be scheduled between 14 July and 17 July. Each will be two hours in length. Information and registration for the workshops is available on the NGS Conference website: https://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/special-workshops Research specialists from the world-renowned Family History Library will conduct the workshops. Several moderators will assist with the Q&A portion of each workshop as well as with technical questions. Reading Italian Records Workshop Brandon Baird, AG, will teach participants how to read Italian civil registration records and church records. Fluency in Italian is not required. Prior to each workshop, registrants will receive an electronic handout. Event moderators and NGS staff will assist anyone who is unsure about how to participate in the virtual workshops. Each workshop costs $35. Register soon to reserve your spot in these expert led workshops. Registration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 July. For more information about the international and ethnic workshops, or to register, visit the NGS conference website: https://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/special-workshops

We sent a message out to IGG members yesterday, but wanted to follow-up here that the Saturday, 3/14 meeting at the Bethpage Public Library is cancelled. Our concern is for the welfare of our members and we feel that this is the prudent decision. We'll hope to see folks at the April "Ask The Experts" meeting - and will update in this space should there be any changes down the line.

THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED - see note in comments below. -- For our NY/Long Island area members: our next in-person meeting will be Saturday, March 14th at the Bethpage Public Library. Toni McKeen will speak on "Tips and Tricks for Using Ancestry.com in Researching Your Family". As always, visitors are welcome - we hope to see you there!

For our local/Long Island, NY members - announcing our February meeting. As always, meetings are open to the public. Alec Ferretti will be presenting on Saturday, February 8th. This lecture will discuss records that are typically overlooked, either because they are not well-known, or because they are not thought to be genealogically relevant. Examples include licensing records, court records, voter registrations, education records, and the 1917 Military Census. Some of these records are available at the Municipal Archives or the City Clerk, while others reside with the agencies that created them, and are only accessible by making Freedom of Information Requests. Ways to legally work around privacy restrictions will be discussed.

For our NY/Long Island-area members: Our January IGG meeting will be held on Saturday, January 11, 2020, 10:30 AM at the Bethpage Public Library (Bethpage, Long Island). Hope to see you there, visitors and first-time attendees are welcome as always!

Announcing our first meeting of the year! Hope to see many of you at the Bethpage Public Library (Bethpage, Long Island, NY) on Saturday, September 14th. Our speaker will be Laura H. Congleton. Laura will be speaking on using newspapers for genealogical research, specifically Old Fulton NY Post Cards. Laura has a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Genealogical Research (NIGR) in Washington, DC. Guests welcome!

For Long Island/NY area folks, here are the details for our April 13th meeting, with our featured speaker Patricia Ann Kellner. Hope you can attend!

Around tomorrow? If you're in the Long Island/NY area, IGG Vice President Michael Cassara will be giving a talk on "21st Century Italian Genealogy" at the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. SUNDAY, March 10th, 2019 - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM (including Q&A) - Free and open to the Public! Talk will take place at the Frank Melville Library - 4th Floor - 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794

Are you in the Long Island, NY area? Hope to see you at our next meeting, on Saturday, March 9th. Michael Carragher, past president of the DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island - DGGLI, will be giving a talk "I Did My DNA Test, Now What?". Need not be a member to attend, guests are welcome.

Are you in the Long Island, NY area? Hope to see you at Saturday's meeting (open to the general public!) where Alec Ferretti will be giving a "crash course in Italian history".

Though not specifically related to Italian genealogy, we thought we'd pass along this terrific article - what a life he has led!

Do you have Garden State roots? Thanks to the inspiring efforts of our great friends at Reclaim the Records, the New Jersey Death Index is now freely online, for the first time ever! It is currently missing some chunks of time, but will ultimately have data from 1901 to 2017! Go check it out! https://www.newjerseydeathindex.com/