Using the Past to Move Your Classroom Forward

On Friday, November 22, 8 1m - 12:30 pm, there will be a free program in Hackensack with information on incorporating New Jersey's 350th birthday into the school curriculum.  The event is open to everyone.

Pat Schuber will be the keynote speaker.  There will be four breakout sessions on the Revolutionary War, African and Native American Life, Early Childhood and Education, and Dutch Settlement.  (You choose two to attend.) The last session will be Local History Resources, and I will be one of the speakers.

Register at www.northjersey.com/history

If you have any questions contact me at heritagecenter@ridgewoodlibrary.org or call 973-569-7562.

Veteran's Day and Christmas Ornaments

Operation Bonaparte: Escape from Behind Enemy Lines
In Honor of Veterans Day this program (sponsored by the Ridgewood Public Library, American Legion Post 53, and VFW Post 192) will present Lt. Louis Feingold's escape from Nazi capture as told by his son Rick through original letters, maps, photos and fake ID cards.

Saturday, Nov. 9 @ 2pm, Auditorium, Ridgewood Public Library, 125 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Bergen County Historical Society Commemorates Veteran's Day
Attended by several Civil War re-enactors, Bob Costello, portraying Abraham Lincoln, will read the Gettysburg Address during the ceremony in special commemoration of the sesquicentennial of President Lincoln's "few appropriate remarks," made on November 19, 1863.   American veterans of all wars will be honored by laying a lay a memorial wreath at the base of Bergen County's Civil War memorial statue.

1 pm on Sunday, November 10, 2013, Hackensack Cemetery, 289-323 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601

Ornament & Lights Lecture

Program on vintage and antique Christmas ornaments with guest speaker Craig McManus. Craig is an expert in the field of antique Christmas ornaments, lights and decorations. His 60-minute program will feature a slide presentation of his pre-1966 collection and the collections of Golden Glow of Christmas Past members of which Craig is currently Chair.

Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 - 9:30 pm, The Hermitage,335 N Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey 07423,  Tickets:  $10 per person.  For more information and to register visit the website or call (201) 445-8311, x 36

Added bonus: The Classic Creations Boutiques will remain open until 7:00 pm on this night. Add to or start your own ornament collection! Admissions $8. Click here for information and a $1 off coupon.

Title Searching Workshop

Deed research can reveal amazing things--property shape and location, names of neighbors, residences of the parties involved, whether there was a mortgage, etc., etc.  A great opportunity is coming up on November 16 to learn all about "Title and Records Research."  Hope to see you there.

2:52am Oct 31

Bergen County Title & Records Workshop – November 16, 2013


A free workshop on Bergen County Historic Title & Records Research will be held Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bergen County Administration Building, One Bergen County Plaza, Hackensack, NJ.

This free hands-on workshop will equip participants to perform efficient historic deed search of Bergen County’s records. The Bergen County Clerk’s office is an important repository of public records and a treasury of important information. Historic preservationists, historians and genealogists are urged to attend.

Pre-registration is required as space is limited. To pre-register, contact Maria Hopper at reetree@optonline.net or 201-391-7386. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board and the Bergen County Clerk’s Office.

Sign-in for the registrants will take place from 9:00-9:45 am when there will be a light breakfast and time for people to network.

The workshop begins at 9:45 with welcomes and introductions from the organizers. The workshop presenter will be Joseph A. Grabas, is an expert in Land Title Research, an Historian and Genealogist. Mr. Grabas is a well-known expert and popular speaker in New Jersey on historic title search. From 10 am – noon, he will present two power-point programs: “Good Deeds: Unearthing your Ancestors in the Land Records” and “Public Burials on Private Grounds: Lost Gravestones in the English Neighborhood (Leonia, NJ).”

After Joe’s presentations, workshop participants will be taken to the County Clerk records on the first floor where Mr. Grabas and County Clerk staff will instruct the participants on the Bergen County Clerk records and systems, where records are located, how to search the County Clerk database and records. There will also be a display of some of the historic maps and documents from their collections.

Mr. Grabas is the founder of the Grabas Institute for Continuing Education (www.continuingeducationnj.com), an institute that brings alternative historically based continuing education to Title, Legal, Real Estate & Insurance professions and supports research into the impact of land ownership and historic deed conveyance. He is active in the NJ historical community, serves on the Monmouth County Historical Commission, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the Genealogical Society of New Jersey.

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