I get the most interesting e-mail:
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan will present Advanced Googling for Genealogical Purposes with Pamela Buchstaber Smith at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Zekelman Family Campus, on Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
Pamela Buchstaber Smith is a daughter of Jewish Russian immigrant. For the past nine years she has been researching her family roots using her computer skills in solving genealogical mysteries of the past and present. Pamela is a member of JGSMI as well as a treasurer and programming second vice-president of the Flint Genealogical Society.
Google has made much easier for genealogists to discover information that otherwise would take days to find. With Pamela’s tips, you will be able to find books, photos, history, clothes and news about your family easier. Alerts will bring information directly to your email about your family, and you will also learn how to get information from all those blogs out there on your family and much more.
JGSMI members may attend free, guests are asked to make a $5 donation. Refreshments will be served. RSVP: programs@jgsmi.org or (248) 496-1324
The Holocaust Memorial Center is at 28123 Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills, MI
Boy, when I was a kid, advanced googling meant something entirely different…
Or were you thinking of advanced OOGLING?
You’re thinking of “ogling”. Which we also probably did as kids. C’mon – admit it.
I was thinking of a derivative of “googly–eyed”. Although I’m hard pressed to think of an ‘advanced’ version..
What – they dropped the “g” in Minnesota?
I am researching published information about the death of my grandfather, Charles L. Wilson. I believe the date of his death was February, 1943. It could have been a year earlier or later. We are relying on the fact that my father, Donald H. Wilson, was 12 at the time.
If there is any way to get published information this far back, I would like advice on how to proceed.
Thank you very much.
Sharon Bond
sharon.bond@du.edu
I would recommend checking out the Farmington Community Library digital collection. Newspapers are digitized and available on-line, and they also have a great data base that you can search:
http://www.farmlib.org/HeritageCollection/index.html
I’ve been advised this session has been cancelled at this time due to the presenter’s illness. I assume it will be rescheduled, although a new date has not yet been given.