{"id":138,"date":"2013-06-06T03:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-06-06T03:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:14:35","slug":"138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/2013\/06\/138\/","title":{"rendered":"FGS and Allen County Public Library, a Winning Combo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opportunity of \u00a0a lifetime! \u00a0That’s the only way to describe the unique synergy that will happen \u00a0August 21-24 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. \u00a0All of the families that I research, except my own, ended up in the West and in doing so passed through the Midwestern states, particularly Ohio and Indiana. New England and New York ancestors \u00a0made their way West through these more northern parts while Kentucky and Tennessee were common transition states for those moving from the southern states like the Carolinas. \u00a0These states and more will be featured at FGS this year.
\nOne of the tracks of the FGS Conference is all about researching in Midwestern and Neighboring States. \u00a0Distinguished presenters with expertise in individual states will be sharing the secrets that they have learned over the years and we can just glean the benefit of their years of familiarity with these new localities. \u00a0An important concept that I embraced from the recent NGS convention in Las Vegas was the use of locality guides. \u00a0Now, the presenters in Fort Wayne will not be able to give us everything we might need for a locality guide in their 1 hour presentation, but they will most definitely be giving us a head start!<\/p>\n

Once we have been given this head start, we will have the opportunity to immediately apply some of the knowledge by visiting the nearby Genealogy Center at Allen County Public Library . \u00a0A brief look at the brochure describing some of their holdings can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.genealogycenter.<\/wbr>org\/pdf\/AboutUsBrochure.pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 I am particularly looking forward to taking advantage of their extensive genealogy and local history periodical collection which is the largest English language collection in the world. \u00a0They have current subscriptions to 6200 periodicals and over 10,000 titles. \u00a0This amount of material would seem daunting if it were not for the amazing work that has been done by the library staff in compiling the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI). \u00a0This index is not the place to plug in your surnames as it is not an index of all words in each article, but it is ideal place to learn about the areas, occupations and life of your ancestors and maybe you will be lucky enough to have one of those 10,000 titles be a periodical dedicated to your family.
\nThis periodical collection is something that is unique to the Allen County library. \u00a0Other genealogical libraries have some periodicals, but nothing like ACPL, so this in itself is a great reason to come to Fort Wayne in August. \u00a0I will be hard at work between now and then putting together my research plans. \u00a0Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

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The opportunity of \u00a0a lifetime! \u00a0That’s the only way to describe the unique synergy that will happen \u00a0August 21-24 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. \u00a0All of the families that I research, except my own, ended up in the West and in doing so passed through the Midwestern states, particularly Ohio and Indiana. New England and New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingyourhistory.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}