Upcoming DGS Meetings

NOTE EARLIER TIME AND DIFFERENT PLACE:
DAY: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at
PLACE: Brandywine Hundred Library, Foulk Road, Wilmington DE in lunchroom
TIME: 7-8:50pm (The library closes at 9pm).
SPEAKER: Majorie McNinch on the Hagley Library Collection
ABSTRACT: Majorie McNinch speak on the mission of thte Hagley Library and the opportunities to do research there. The Hagley Museum and Library, established in 1957 at the site of the DuPont company's original powder mills, contains collections of American business archives, beginning with the the DuPont company which was founded in 1802. Collections include pamphlets, political tracts, physiocratic documents and correspondence with political economists in France that founder Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours brought from France. The Hagley collections include extensive material early American business, labor, financial, and social history including the many Irish immigrants whose passage to America in the mid-19th century was paid for by DuPont to work in factories. Hagley is the premier repository for records on mid-Atlantic mills, manufactures, foundries and forges, transportation, commerce, banking, and technology in the 19th century.
BACKGROUND: Majorie McNinch is Reference Librarian at the Soda House of the Hagley Museum and Library

NOTE EARLIER TIME AND DIFFERENT PLACE:
DAY: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at
PLACE: TBD
TIME: 7-8:50pm (The library closes at 9pm).
SPEAKER: Shirley Arnell on The LDS Indexing Project
ABSTRACT: Shirley Arnell will speak on the 6-8 year project to digitize and index the entire collection of microfilms (2.5 million reels) made in the 20th century from mainly government and church records around the world by the Morman church. Over 150K transcribers around the world are indexing 1 million names/day. The digitized images and indeces are being posted on their LDS Pilot Site.
Also see Current Projects and Partner Projects and a Dick Eastman review on Volunteering
BACKGROUND: Shirley Arnell is from the Family History Center of the latter-day Saints church at 237 Lebanon Rd in Dover Delaware (Phone: 302-697-2700)

NOTE EARLIER TIME AND DIFFERENT PLACE:
DAY: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at
PLACE: The 2nd floor of the Delaware History Museum at 505 N. Market Street,. Wilmington
TIME: 7:00-pm (The museum closes at 9pm).
SPEAKER: Paul Heinegg on Genealogy Research of African Americans in the Colonial Period
ABSTRACT: Paul Heinegg uncovered these genealogies by looking at criminal records during the late 1600s and early 1700s. Over half of the residents of the colonies were indentured servants. The indentured servant contract prohibited indentured servants from getting married or getting pregnant. Mr. Heinegg focused on white women who were indentured servants who had "mulatto" babies. These women were brought to court in Maryland and sentenced to seven years of additional indentured servitude. The babies were sentenced to twenty-one years of indentured servitude.
Over the years these "mulatto" babies banded together and formed their own communities. Because they could not buy land in Maryland, many migrated to Virginia or Delaware. There are an estimated 100 to 200 "mulatto" families that migrated to Delaware during the early 1800's. One of those who migrated was Paul Heinegg's great, great, great grandfather, William Saunders, who bought 15 acres of land in Pencader/Newark in 1810.
BACKGROUND: Paul Heinegg is a genealogist specializing in mixed race (mulatto) families that traced back to the early 1700s and is the author of "Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810" (2000). His book contains genealogical evidence on more than 300 Maryland and Delaware black families (naming nearly 6000 individuals), with copious documentation from the federal censuses of 1790-1810 and colonial sources consulted at the Maryland Hall of Records, county archives, and other repositories.

For a listing of general meeting programs since 1995, see Earlier DGS Meetings/Events

Leaves 7am from Aldersgate Church parking lot (on Route 202 just north of Fairfax Shopping Center) and 7:20am (near Newark I-95 rest stop?)
ITINERARY: Washington DC stops: DAR Library (admission $6), National Archives (can walk to Library of Congress) and the Smithsonium Castle: use links to prepare for your trip
RETURN: bus leaves DAR at 4:10pm sharp, the Archives at 4:20pm sharp and Smithsonium at 4:30pm sharp and arrives in Delaware about 7:00pm;
COST: $35 for everyone.
RESERVATIONS by date TBD, if possible: Fill out reservation form and snail mail with check to Diane at address given on form
If visiting the National Archives, please call Diane about the new entrance requirements! More Details
CONTACT: Diane Eckles or (302)-475-2954

Free Family Research Help at
Delaware Historical Society
3rd Saturday of each month (10 am to 4 pm)
contact Cathy Donovan by email to schedule a time slot:

Delaware Historical Society now open 3rd Saturday
(10 am to 4 pm)

Most Recent DGS Publications
[Order Form]
Sussex Co Orphans' Court Books BC, DE and F (2004-5)
DGS Journal CD (v.1-10, 11 #1,#2) (2004)
Delaware Genealogical Research Guide (2002), 52 pages

Research Guide 2005 review

Gov. Minner's Proclamation and Images from the
DGS 30th Anniversary Dinner (October 2007)

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