A large percentage of African-Americans now living in New York City can trace their ancestry back to the Caribbean. Discover the resources available to trace your family back from the Big Apple to many of the 7000+ islands that make up this ethnically and culturally diverse archipelago.
When:
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Venue:
South Court Classrooms - NYPL, Steven A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Ave between 40th and 42nd Streets, New York, NY
Join local historian Eric K. Washington, author of Trinity Church Cemetery, a new iPhone travel app, on a tour of Manhattan’s only still-admitting cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1980).
When:
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Venue:
Trinity Church Cemetery Burial Ground - near Audubon Terrace (on Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets), New York, NY
The NYG&B is hosting a walking tour of beautiful Woodlawn Cemetery. First opened in 1863, it is located in the Bronx at Webster Avenue & East 233rd Street. It is the final home of many of New York City's historic figures such as Admiral David G. Farragut; author Herman Melville; abolitionist and women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and journalist Joseph Pulitzer.
When:
Saturday, September 15, 2012 - 11:00am to 1:30pm
Venue:
Woodlawn Cemetery - Webster Avenue & East 233rd Street
From its earliest years, government in New York has involved itself in the lives of its residents. Whether its vital statistics, education, incarceration, military service, court actions, or political activity, an amazing collection of voices of New Yorkers can be heard through the records in the State Archives. This session will provide information on some of the onsite and online resources available for family historians.
When:
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Venue:
The New York Public Library- Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, New York City
Explore using Facebook, Google+, Blogger, Skype, YouTube, and other social media sites as a genealogist and family historian. These tools are made for family researchers. We are actually spending time looking for other people we connect with, so why not use the abilities of online communications and searching to "reach out and touch someone new"?
When:
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Venue:
The New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets NYC
The NYG&B's annual trip to Albany is SOLD OUT. Don't miss out next year; contact Lauren Maehrlein at education@nygbs.org to reserve your place for 2013.
The NYG&B is returning to Albany! Join the people who know New York research best for three days of research and genealogical camaraderie. Program includes:
When:
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 9:00am to Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 5:00pm
Venue:
Hotel Albany, NY State Archives, NY State Library and the City of Albany!
Join us Monday, November 19, at 5:30, in NYG&B headquarters, for a return visit by Eve LaPlante, author of Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother. LaPlante is a great-niece and a cousin of Abigail and Louisa May Alcott. The winner of the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, she visited the NYG&B in 2004 and 2008 to discuss her two other acclaimed biographies, American Jezebel and Salem Witch Judge.
Over the past decade, genetic genealogy has graduated from pioneering research to one more tool in our family history arsenal. But just as the number of us taking DNA tests has grown, so have our genetic options. Come hear one of the co-authors of Trace Your Roots with DNA discuss how Y-DNA and mtDNA testing can be used to shed light on the paternal and maternal branches of your family tree, as well as how new (in many respects, revolutionary) autosomal tests can reveal previously unknown facets hidden anywhere in your family's past. Talk delivered in plain English!
When:
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 5:30pm
Venue:
Berger Forum, Room 227 (second floor), Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY
Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, Fraser Herald of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, will speak on the distinction between a logo and a coat of arms. Ms. Bursey-Sabourin has been Fraser Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa since 1989. She is the principal artist of the Authority. Bursey-Sabourin has been responsible for the paintings made for the arms of the last five Governors General of Canada and the Coat of arms of Canada. The program is free but reservations are necessary as capacity is limited. Please call 212-755-8532 x211 for reservations.
