Are you struggling to find employment or tired of your current job? Please join us for Career Connections Presents: Path to Employment to learn about the best practices for finding a job as well as some powerful resources from the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce. Topics we will cover include:
In honor of African American History Month, please join us for as Dr. Judith Geisberg and Margaret Jerrido showcase a wonderful resource for tracking down ancestors who were slaves. Before slavery came to an end, enslaved families were routinely separated when “owners” sold mothers away from children, husbands from wives, sisters away from brothers. The heartbreak of these separations has lived on to their descendants, who today try to fill in their family trees. For two years, Dr. Geisberg and Ms. Jerrido collected “information wanted” ads taken out by former slaves searching for their loved ones lost in slavery. The project began by collecting the ads found in The Christian Recorder, published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. To date the Last Seen project has identified more than 3,000 of these ads, digitized them, and made them available on the project website, where researchers and family genealogists can search the ads by proper name, location, circumstance of separation, and other events. The site offers new avenues for genealogists to search their family history.
Judith Giesberg is Professor of History at Villanova University. Giesberg is the author of five books, Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2000),“Army at Home:” Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War (Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2013), and Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 (State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.) Judy’s latest book, Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of Modern Morality, (University of North Carolina Press) was published in 2017. Judy is Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era.
Margaret Jerrido received her BA, in history, from Temple University. She received her MLS with a concentration in archival management from Drexel University. She has worked in the archival field for over 35 years. She was the Director of the Black Women’s Physicians Project at the Medical College of Pennsylvania; Director of the Urban Archives in the Temple University Libraries; and is currently the part-time Archivist at Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia. She is a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group (DVAG) and the Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference (MARAC). Ms. Jerrido has conducted workshops on how to preserve historical materials, lead discussion groups on how to begin an archives, and participated in panels and workshops on how to conduct oral histories to the PA Genealogical Society and the African American Genealogy Group.
Successful, engaging community projects are often completely overlooked opportunities that can foster far more substantive relationships than any proposal ever can by offering a chance for executives to work side by side with youth and families in the communities that they serve … and ultimately become your organization’s ambassadors. Please join Leontyne Anglin and learn to develop a strategic plan to get your foot in the door, lead successful large-scale projects and potentially generate thousands of dollars in support.
Leontyne Anglin is a former corporate marketer and media relations executive with a background in
podcasting, film, and television production. She is a Commercial Remote Pilot Licensed & Certified by
the Federal Aviation Administration specializing in Aerial Videography and Photography. She founded
Staging Executives Aerial & Digital Media firm with one purpose in mind … to help business owners
and entrepreneurs leverage media to gain a professional online presence — helping clients get their shows
on the air and businesses on the map!
With the summer quickly approaching, now is the time for parents to start considering their childcare options for the summer. Many parents choose to enroll their children in summer camps, in either day camps, overnight camps, or specialty camps. Summer camps offer your children a wide range of activities fostering their personal, physical, social, and educational growth. However, choosing the right summer camp can be difficult and time consuming, but we have you covered. Please join the NJ State Library and the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey for our first Summer Camp Fair to help state employees find the right camp for their children. Come check out camps from the surrounding areas in both NJ and PA and find a camp that fits your needs. The following is a list of camps attending on Tuesday, February 12 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm:
Big Oak Day Camp – Yardley, PA
CYO Day Camp of Mercer County – Trenton, NJ
Hamilton Area YMCA Sawmill Branch – Hamilton, NJ
Liberty Lake Day Camp – Bordentown, NJ
Mount Laurel YMCA – Mount Laurel, NJ
Princeton Day School Summer Programs – Princeton, NJ
Princeton Family YMCA Summer Camp – Princeton, NJ
Rambling Pines Day Camp – Hopewell, NJ
The Boys and Girls Club of Mercer County – Trenton, NJ
New Jersey opened its first state hospital for those needing psychiatric care in 1848. Known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, this hospital was established in direct response to Dorothea Dix’s patient advocacy campaign and, as such, offered a revolutionary approach to patient care, one that emphasized holistic treatments and protected patient dignity. Yet over the next century, these approaches would be challenged by changing social, political, and scientific norms. The New Jersey State Library’s recently digitized collection of New Jersey State Asylum annual reports offers a glimpse into patient life and care over the course of that century. Please join us as Caitlyn Cook, our Digital Librarian, discusses the collection, the stories found within, and their relevance today.
Caitlyn Cook is the New Jersey Reference and Digital Librarian for the New Jersey State Library in Trenton. Her work includes digitizing historic, New Jersey government documents to ensure long-term preservation and to promote public access.
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the preeminent institutions for Holocaust-era research. Known worldwide as a museum, it is also invaluable to genealogists. This talk will cover strategies for using the Victims and Survivors database, the International Tracing Service Inventory Search, and the museum’s archival holdings (particularly those that are available online) of artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, and personal
stories. Methods in which the print collection in Washington DC may be used will be described. Finally, she will cover some fundamental differences between archives and libraries and tips for researching archives via available finding aids.
Elana Broch, PhD, is the Assistant Population Research Librarian at Princeton University. She is an amateur genealogist who has spent much of her research efforts trying to find out about her grandfather, a 1941 “euthanasia” victim. What little progress she has made would not have been possible without the help of researchers and librarians at the USHMM.
Thank you to Nicolette Vasco from the Alzheimer’s Association for her talk Effective Communication Strategies for Alzheimer’s Caregivers. Alzheimer’s is a very complex disease, affecting each person, and those close to them, differently. People with Alzheimer’s will rely more and more on their caregivers as the disease progress and it is important for caregivers to be able to communicate, whether verbally, physically, visually, in order to help their loved one, even in the most mundane of tasks. The following information is broken down into the 3 stages of Alzheimer’s (early, middle, and late):
You can download of copy of the presentation at https://www.njstatelib.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Effective-Communication-Strategies-Presentation.pdf. Please visit the Alzheimer’s Association for more information on all aspects of the disease. If you need immediate help, please contact their support line 24/7 at 1-800-272-3900.
Communication is more than just talking and listening – it’s also about sending and receiving messages through attitude, tone of voice, facial expressions and body language. As people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias progress in their journey and the ability to use words is lost, families need new ways to connect. Join us to explore how communication takes place when someone has Alzheimer’s, learn to decode the verbal and behavioral messages delivered by someone with dementia, and identify strategies to help you connect and communicate at each stage of the disease. The Effective Communication Strategies program of the Alzheimer’s Association was designed to provide practical information and resources to help dementia caregivers learn to decode verbal and behavioral messages from people with dementia.
Join the Federal Trade Commission on January 14 at 1:00 PM for “Fighting Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft in New Jersey,” a free, one-hour webinar.
You’ll learn about:
Speakers will include staff from the:
If you would like to attend this webinar in person at the State Library, please register below. If you would like to attend this webinar remotely, please visit https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/webinar-fighting-consumer-fraud-identity-theft-new-jersey.
Thank you to the Credit Union of New Jersey and Pete Manferdo from Experian for presenting Managing Your Credit and Credit Reporting. Credit plays an important role in our finances, from car loans, to mortgages, to credit cards. As such, it is important to understand exactly how credit and credit reporting works and what you can do keep on top of your credit. The following topics were covered:
Credit Report
Credit Report Retention
Common Myths about Credit
Breakdown of the Vantage Score (Similar to FICO Score)
For more information on credit reports and credit scores, contact your financial institution or visit the Federal Government’s Credit Reports and Scores page at https://www.usa.gov/credit-reports.
Creating and maintaining a healthy credit history can be difficult, but is necessary for many things in our lives, from getting personal loans, mortgages, car loans, or obtaining a credit card. Please join us as the CUNJ and Experian will present on how to better understand credit reporting and provide general information about how you can manage your credit reports so that you can get the credit you need and want. Specifically, it will touch on:
