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January 18, 2025 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Brooks Memorial Library Meeting Room
224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on an exploration of “Sanborn Maps and the 1900 Census ” & “Researching Your Ancestors Using State Census Records,” on Saturday, January 18, 2025, from 11am to 1pm, Zoom and at Brooks Memorial Library. In case of inclement weather, it will be Zoom only. Free and open to all.
Please register at this link https://bit.ly/WCGIG2025 A Zoom link will be sent before the meeting. For those people in the local vicinity, an in person meeting will also be conducted at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., Brattleboro, Vermont.
“Sanborn Maps and the 1900 Census“
Using the 1900 Census and the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps we can learn a lot about any ancestors who were alive at that time. Sanborn maps are detailed maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally published by The Sanborn Map Company, the maps were created to allow fire insurance companies to assess their total liability in urbanized areas of the United States. Since they contain detailed information about properties and individual buildings in approximately 12,000 U.S. cities and towns, they give a picture of a place in a specific time period. The 1900 census schedules contain the most information of all the schedules released to date, give for each person: name; address; occupation, relationship to the head of the household; color or race; sex; month and year of birth; age at last birthday; marital status; if a wife is listed within the household, then the census gives the number of children she had. It also gives birthplace information and citizenship status. We will explore how to use these tools for genealogy.
“Researching Your Ancestors Using State Census Records”
State census were taken between census years for a number of states beginning in 1825 to 1925. These records also include colonial census for New England states, which includes Vermont. The later records may fill in information in between census years and many of them asked unique and different questions from the Federal census that could enhance family information. As examples, these questions such as recording the relationship of the individuals to the head of household, military service, birthplace of parents, and immigration questions. The session explore how to find these census in the databases, a few of state census specific to New England, and other states with the unique questions.
What We Do: The Windham County (Vt.) Genealogy Interest Group is an informal organization whose members are dedicated to genealogy education, research, and best practices. Meetings are held every other month on Zoom. Many of these sessions were recorded and are available on the WCGIG YouTube Channel, https://bit.ly/WCGIGVIDEO, which cover topics as: improving your search results in FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com; using family tree software; navigating the crowd sourced cemetery database, Find A Grave; using land records for genealogy research; using AmericanAncestors.org, the database of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; finding people in the newly released 1950 U.S. Census.
Contact Us:
Windham County Genealogy Interest Group
windhamcountygig@gmail.com
windhamcountygig@gmail.com
