| When: | Saturday, March 1, 2014, 10 am to 12 noon |
| Where: | David Library of the American Revolution |
| Subject: | Crossing the Pond: Finding Immigrant Origins |
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This presentation discusses how to use United States records to help determine the country, province or city of origin of an immigrant ancestor or relative. This covers methodologies as well as documents like Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, Census records, Military records, Naturalization forms, Social Security records, Passenger Lists, etc. Click here for a printable brochure about this program. |
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| Speaker: | Larry S. Fermi |
| Larry has spent many years in front of an audience doing presentations in the corporate world. Also, as a part-time actor in countless community theater productions since 1971 as well as a stand-in on movies and a background extra in movies, soap operas and cable television series', Larry has honed his skills in front of an audience. He was a long time member of the Monmouth County Genealogy Society's Education Committee as well as serving as their Vice President and Program Chair from 2003 to 2005 and is a popular speaker on basic and advanced genealogy related subjects in the greater NY metropolitan area as well as nationally and has been performing in depth Family History research since 1989 with a focus on European immigration during the peak periods of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the National Genealogical Society, the Genealogical Speaker's Guild and the Genealogical Society of New Jersey. As a researcher, Larry has also been featured on CNN's Open House program and NY Public Radio's Cityscape Public Affairs show talking about family and house history. | |
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