St. Augustine Genealogical Society

12/04/2025

A reminder that we have our Christmas lunch for members coming up a week on Saturday. We supply the protein and drinks. If you can come, please email sags(dot)secretary(at)yahoo(dot)com and let us know if you can also bring any comestibles with you!
Merry Christmas to all!

12/02/2025

When I was at the Northeast (US) Regional Genealogy Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, I was fortunate to win the lottery run by www.CivilWarRecords.com for a copy of a military record for a soldier who had fought in the civil war. Having no family involved, AFAIK, I asked a Facebook group dedicated to descendants of a particular Howes family and selected one of their suggestions.
This morning I received a 500MB zip file containing 233 scanned pages, from the man's original claim for an invalid pension through to the envelope returned by the USPS marked that his widow had died. Fascinating stuff, which I am sharing with one of his great-great-granddaughters.
So I just wanted to put in a small plug for Brian Rhinehart's service in case there are other members out there who might be interested.

Civil War and War of 1812 research and record retrieval at the National Archives. We provide a cheaper and quicker alternative to ordering records at the National Archives.

11/28/2025

Members might like to know that the North Florida GS has a Family Tree Maker event at the Mandarin library on Friday at 1:30pm. To attend you need a free ticket from the link below

Join us for a Family Tree Maker event.

11/23/2025

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11/22/2025

New York ancestors? You might be interested in this new index to FamilySearch's land records from the NYG&B

This is a free-to-use, enhanced index for FamilySearch’s digital collection, New York, Land Records, 1630-1975. The original scans—capturing over 32 million land transactions in all—come from 59 of New York’s 62 counties (Franklin, Nassau, and Queens excluded) and were first microfilmed by t...

11/13/2025

Anyone with Scottish ancestors?

Scottish ancestry expert Chris Paton picks out the key records for tracing your Scottish family history

11/11/2025

Two last bird pix from Massachusetts: more turkeys, and about 80 geese on a green pond!

11/08/2025

Did your Irish ancestors leave wills?

Irish ancestry experts Paul Blake and Maggie Loughran explain how to find Irish wills in family history research

11/08/2025

Anyone with Welsh ancestors?

Discover if you have Welsh ancestry with the help of this list of the best Welsh ancestry websites from family history magazine Who Do You Think You Are?

11/07/2025

Interesting discovery in Massachusetts. How many more records are in a back room somewhere out there waiting to be found?

Discovery of the records comes in the months before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “These were individuals who truly believed that they should have a stake in their own government,” said Sheriff Patrick Cahillane.

11/05/2025

An initiative from the Guild of One-Name Studies, starting this Thursday 6th November 7pm

Connect with fellow family historians every Thursday evening at 2 PM (EST) on Zoom. Whether you're stuck on a research problem, exploring new resources, or just keen to share your genealogy journey, this is the place to collaborate, learn, and grow.
Hosted by the Guild of One-Name Studies, open to all genealogists and family history enthusiasts.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://one-name-org.zoom.us/j/83662219104...
Meeting ID: 836 6221 9104
Passcode: 866926

11/04/2025

Our presentation this coming Saturday should be interesting for local and civil war historians as well as we family historians. Amy Giroux will be talking to us about her amazing quest to document every undocumented grave in St Augustine's National Cemetery.
For more details on this and future events, please see: https://www.stauggensoc.org/calendar-1
Remember: second Saturdays, 1pm at the SELibrary on route 1

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