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Thursday, January 9, 2025
Census Records in Depth (Classes)
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Hybrid Meeting - In-person at Library 21C, Room B2
ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN TIME.
THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING. PEOPLE WHO LIVE LOCALLY ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND IN PERSON FOR THE CAMARADERIE AND TO WORK ON EXERCISES TOGETHER. The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Nancy Niles Wehner, CG
Recommended Minimum Experience Level: Advanced Beginner
Restrictions: Open to PPGS members only. For membership information, see the Join PPGS tab in the menu to the left at http://ppgs.org.
This class will provide an in-depth look at census records in the United States. The class will be a combined lecture and workshop, with hands-on exercises in the use of census records. Included will be:
- Federal population schedules
- Federal non-population schedules: slave, mortality, agricultural, DDD, veterans, Indian, manufacturing, merchant seaman, social statistics
- Missing Federal schedules
- State census records
- Reliabilty of census records
- Getting the most out of census records: how to use pre-1850 records, interpreting mysterious codes
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Vital Records in Depth (Classes)
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Hybrid Meeting - In-person at Library 21C, Room B6
ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN TIME.
THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING. PEOPLE WHO LIVE LOCALLY ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND IN PERSON FOR THE CAMARADERIE AND TO WORK ON EXERCISES TOGETHER. The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Nancy Niles Wehner, CG
Recommended Minimum Experience Level: Advanced Beginner
Restrictions: Open to PPGS members only. For membership information, see the Join PPGS tab in the menu to the left at http://ppgs.org.
Vital records (birth, marriage, death) provide important information on the connections and major events of our ancestors lives. But, vital records go far beyond the basic certificates that we often consider. This class will be a combined lecture and workshop, with hands-on exercises in the use of vital records. This class will only be covering civil vital records - use of church records, newspapers, etc. will be covered in other classes. Included will be:
- Availabilty of birth, marriage, and death records: requirements for recording
- Privacy issues in obtaining records
- Birth records: original, delayed
- Marriage records: applications, licenses, returns
- Death records: original, coroner's inquests, removal records
- Reliability of vital records
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Saturday, February 1, 2025
Getting the Most Out of Find A Grave (Classes)
12:30 pm to 3:00 pm Zoom Meeting
ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN TIME.
THIS IS A ZOOM MEETING. The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Elaine Fraser
Recommended Minimum Experience Level: Beginner
Class Size: Minimum 8
Restrictions: None. Open to the public.
Reservations: Required; Send your request to join this class to education@ppgs.org. Please include how you heard about the class. Registration closes January 30 at 5:00 pm, Mountain Time.
Find-A-Grave can be an invaluable tool for providing you with information and clues on your ancestors and their extended family. Think you already know Find-A-Grave? Perhaps not as well as you might believe. This class will cover all you need to know about Find-A-Grave from basic to advanced functions as well as how you can use Find-A-Grave to help others in their research.
Covered in the class will be:
- Getting Started: Community rules, FAQ, support, other links, tutorials, how it works
- Basics: Searching memorials, creating an account, editing and linking memorials, messaging vs email
- Intermediate: Creating memorials, adding photos, requesting photos
- Advanced: Transferring memorials, merging memorials, cenotaphs, formatting entries, saving to Ancestry or FamilySearch
- Other: Leaving flowers, sponsoring a memorial, setting up favorite and virtual cemeteries, paying it forward
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Land and Property Records in Depth (Classes)
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Hybrid Meeting - In-person at Library 21C, Room B2
ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN TIME.
THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING. PEOPLE WHO LIVE LOCALLY ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND IN PERSON FOR THE CAMARADERIE AND TO WORK ON EXERCISES TOGETHER. The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Nancy Niles Wehner, CG
Recommended Minimum Experience Level: Advanced Beginner
Restrictions: Open to PPGS members only. For membership information, see the Join/Renew tab in the menu to the left at http://ppgs.org.
Some of our ancestors lived in the city, some in the country, and most of them owned land or other property. These records can help us place our ancestors in time and place, as well as tell us much about their economic status. This class will be a combined lecture and workshop on land and property records. Included will be:
- Common types of property records
- Indexes to deeds
- Typical deed information and language
- Land descriptions and how to plot them
- Tax lists and what they tell us
- Homesteads
- Maps
- Other interesting property records
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Genealogical Traps: Are You Sabotaging Your Family History? (Classes)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Hybrid Meeting - In-person at Library 21C, Room B6
ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN TIME.
THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING. PEOPLE WHO LIVE LOCALLY ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND IN PERSON FOR THE CAMARADERIE. The ZOOM invite information and class materials will be sent to registered participants 1-2 days prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Nancy Niles Wehner, CG
Recommended Minimum Experience Level: Beginner
Restrictions: None. Open to the public.
Reservations: Required; to register click on the following link or copy it into your browser: https://forms.gle/MGZrTMr7ypD5vNny5
Interpreting the information in records is not always as simple as it seems, and a misstep can send your research down the garden path. This class will look at common issues and mistakes that need to be avoided. Included will be discussions of:
- Naming issues
- Location issues
- Date issues
- Handwriting issues
- Calendar issues
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