Publications
Genealogical Data - Manatee County, FL
The Manasota Genealogical Society published two significant books in the 1980's. These publications, which are now out of print, have been prepared for electronic publication and made available on this website to researchers investigating ancestors in Manatee County, Florida. These publications are in PDF format and the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® is necessary to view these files. The Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® is free software that lets you view and print PDFs. If you do not have the free Adobe® Reader® software, please Click Here to download it from Adobe's website. These publications are: -
Tombstone Inscriptions in Cemeteries of Manatee County Florida 1850 - 1980, published by the Manasota Genealogical Society Inc., 2nd Edition, copyright 1982, all rights reserved, 811 pages. This is a large PDF file (40MB) of scanned book pages; the file is bookmarked for ease of navigation, and optimized for single page downloading for low speed internet connections. Best viewing and navigating of this large PDF file from within your browser requires the Adobe® Reader® plug-in, or one could save the file to disk and view it with the Adobe® Reader®. If using a low speed connection, it is advisable to set your Adobe® Reader® internet preference to not "allow downloading in the background" (go to Edit/Preferences, Category: Internet in your Adobe® Reader®). Downloads and copies are for the personal use of the researcher, and no distribution is allowed without the permission of the Manasota Genealogical Society. Click Here To View This Book. Navigation instructions are provided on the introduction/opening page of this file. -
Extractions from Manatee County Censuses of 1860 - 1870 - 1880 - 1885 - 1895, by Mabel Schneider (Chairman), Lucille Ford, Paul Rehnborg, Elinor Rehnborg, Helen Richeson & Peggy Wetsel - Members of the Manasota Genealogical Society, published by the Manasota Genealogical Society Inc., copyright 1985, all rights reserved, 343 pages. Best viewing and navigating of this large PDF file from within your browser requires the Adobe® Reader® plug-in, or one could save the file to disk and view it with the Adobe® Reader®. If using a low speed connection, it is advisable to set your Adobe® Reader® internet preference to not "allow downloading in the background" (go to Edit/Preferences, Category: Internet in your Adobe Reader). Downloads and copies are for the personal use of the researcher, and no distribution is allowed without the permission of the Manasota Genealogical Society. Click Here To View This Book. Navigation instructions are provided on the introduction/opening page of this file. Cracker Crumbs
The Manasota Genealogical Society (MGS) publishes a newsletter (Cracker Crumbs) on a quarterly schedule. The newsletter contains information on upcoming events, meetings, news of recent MGS activities, helpful hints for genealogical research, member research interests, and information on special interest groups for education and research, to name a few focus areas. We encourage MGS Members to contribute pertinent news and genealogical interest information for newsletter publication. Your personal involvement adds to our MGS experience.
Dorinne Campbell is our Newsletter Editor, and she welcomes your support. Guidelines for submission of articles can be obtained by clicking here. Cracker Crumbs is distributed to MGS Members via e-mail to their address of record, and for the immediate future is available on this website. The current newsletters available for download and viewing as PDF files are: MGS By-Laws
The Manasota Genealogical Society By-Laws (revised April 4, 2007) are available for downloading and viewing as a PDF file: Member
& Speaker Articles
The Manasota Genealogical Society will Web Publish Articles submitted by MGS Members. Here is your chance to get PUBLISHED! Our newsletter in the past has included Member Spotlight Articles where a member presents the results of his/her research and includes some interesting information related to the member/researcher. Also, members have assembled much information pertaining to their ancestors that would be of considerable interest to their "unknown" shared relatives. Separating this type of material from the newsletter keeps the newsletter manageable in size and focused on news. Web Publishing can get that treasured information to the masses. Consider contributing a short article to share with your fellow MGS members and the genealogical community! Guidelines for submission of Articles can be obtained by clicking here. Current Articles/Publications available for download and viewing as PDF files are: -
Jim McHugh describes his research and findings pertaining to his patriot ancestor Solomon Ingalls, born 1750 in Andover, MA & died Jefferson, County, NY in 1840, and an interesting coincidence. This work resulted in Jim's Article "A Coincidence at Saratoga" (size 186 KB). -
Anne Young described her experiences researching Swedish ancestors and the enlightening experiences in Salt Lake City with the SwedGen Tour at the 2005 FGS Conference. See Anne's "The SwedGen Tour Comes to Salt Lake City" (size 708 KB).
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Bryan Mulcahy discussed a variety of topics associated with
immigration and genealogical research at a MGS 2009 Meeting. Bryan has
prepared study guides covering a variety of genealogy research topics; his
presentation was centered on a number of these guides. Attendees found these
study guides to be very useful, and they are available here on this website, Mulcahy Study Guides
(a PDF file).
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