I've lived in New Jersey for more than 40 years, but I'll never be a real New Jersey girl. I grew up in Pennsylvania where there was lots of snow, one traffic light in town, and 90 kids in my grade--from kindergarten through graduation. I didn't know anything about The Shore, or baked ziti, or Chanukah until I came to Jersey. But, I've come to love all of that and much more--especially the history. I now know about the Jersey Dutch, strawberry baskets, railroad suburbs, the bridge that saved a nation, and so much more. I've learned that to tell the local stories about regular people I need to read wills, estate files, census records, pension applications, letters, tombstones, newspapers, and anything else I can find. So, that's some of what I want to share with you!

Friday, November 1, 2013

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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