{"id":36,"date":"2008-06-03T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:13:50","slug":"new-york-city-apg-chapter-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/new-york-city-apg-chapter-takes.html","title":{"rendered":"New York City &#8211; APG Chapter takes detailed tour of GenealogyBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>I had the opportunity Monday night to speak to the <\/strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.apgen.org\/chapters\/newyork\/index.html\"><strong>New York Metro Chapter<\/strong><\/span><strong> of the <\/strong><strong>Association of Professional Genealogists<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600-h\/genealogybankcom-nyapg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207633719134029602\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/genealogybankcom-nyapg.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot: GenealogyBank\" width=\"247\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have been a member of APG from the beginning &#8211; and a member of the New York Metro Chapter for many years. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><strong>Living in Connecticut I welcomed the opportunity to go to the city and speak about <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\"><strong>GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><strong>It was a good group &#8211; the room was full and it was clear that most members of the group were already actively using <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\"><strong>GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/a><strong>. We spent the evening walking them through the many types of records found in <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\"><strong>GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/a><strong> and in particular showing them examples of records that they might not have used before &#8230; obituaries published in government reports, marriage announcements, Civil War pension records from the 1920s, passenger arrival notices\/lists; rare documents and more &#8211; showing them clear examples of what could be found and their value to genealogists. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><strong>Many thanks to the Chapter leadership <\/strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.apgen.org\/directory\/search_detail.html?mbr_id=584\"><strong>Joy Rich<\/strong><\/span><strong> &amp; <\/strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.apgen.org\/directory\/search_detail.html?mbr_id=154\"><strong>Eileen Polakoff<\/strong><\/span><strong> for a job well done in arranging for tonight&#8217;s meeting.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity Monday night to speak to the New York Metro Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists. I have been a member of APG from the beginning &#8211; and a member of the New York Metro Chapter for many years. Living in Connecticut I welcomed the opportunity to go to the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5245,921,4918,5290,422,1102,1129,1036,1661,1086,1674,1829,22,2051,1874,455,878,1084,1085,5426,3962,1069,1704],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-announcements","tag-apg","tag-association-of-professional-genealogists","tag-civil","tag-civil-war","tag-connecticut","tag-family","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-government","tag-id","tag-in","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-announcements","tag-ms","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-obituaries","tag-pension","tag-records","tag-value","tag-war","tag-york"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99924,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/99924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}