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Upcoming Genealogy and History Meetings
May – There will be no meeting for the GENCOM group in the month of May.
June 8 – The ALTGA will hold their regular monthly meeting on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Randall T. Moore Center. The program, "Shreveport's Historic Figure: William Edenborn: Businessman, Inventor and Philanthropist" will be presented by Don Weathersby, Historian & Buisnessman. The Hornbook session, “Unusual Records & Artifacts: Citing ‘SQUARE BLOCKS’ that do not fit "Round Citation Models" will by presented by Philip Adderley, CG.
June 30 - The GENCOM Genealogical Computer Society will hold their regular monthly meeting Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Broadmoor Library. Phil Adderley, CG will present a program about his homeland of Bermuda entitled “Casting the Net for 17th Century English ancestors: Bermuda”. Phil will cover the English connections to the early colonies, the Bermuda Trade Triangle of the 1600-1700s, pirates, privateers and researching Bermuda Archives and its Civil Records.
July 13 - ALTGA will hold their regular monthly meeting Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Randall T. Moore Center. The program “Mary was Bessie’s Grandmother and also her Mother! How Do You Handle Conflicting Evidence?” will be presented by Philip Adderley, CG.
July 28 - The GENCOM Genealogical Computer Society will hold their regular monthly meeting Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Broadmoor Library. Toni Turk will present a program about her latest gene-alogy research trip to Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The title of the presentation will be “Researching 160 years and 7 generations in 10 days”. She will be telling us about how she prepared for the trip and many of the details of how she conducted her research. With this trip she will have completed both of her father’s lines back almost 370 years.
August 10 - ALTGA will sponsor an all day seminar on August 10, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Broadmoor United Methodist Church. The featured speaker will be John Sellers. For more information see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~laaltga/calendar.htm.
September 20-21 - GENCOM is planning a trip to the Arkansas Genealogical Society’s 2013 Fall Seminar in Little Rock. J. Mark Lowe will be the featured speaker. For more information on this event go to the following website www.agsgenealogy.org.
FOG – The Friends of Genealogy meet on Thursdays 9:00A.M. at the Broadmoor Branch Library in the Genealogy Department to work on their ongoing obituary project. They talk about family research, answer any questions or help a fellow member with their genealogy research.
SIG Groups
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Meetings meet monthly on the following days at Podnuh’s Bar-B-Q.
o Corel Graphics/Photo SIG – First Tuesday at 7:00 P.M.
o Caddo-Bossier Window Users Group – Second Thursday at 7:00 P.M.
o Microsoft Windows SIG – Fourth Thursday at 7:00 P.M.• Word/Exel SIG Group meets on the Second Thursday of each month at the Broadmoor Library at 2:00 P.M.
Author Archives: Jim Jones
MEMBERSHIP SURNAME LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED!
The GENCOM membership surname list has been updated. To access the list, go to the membership page and click on the “Membership Surnames” link. This list is a pdf file and is searchable. The search is case sensitive, so capitalize … Continue reading
DNA TEST SALE
FamilyTreeDNA has a sell on all of their DNA tests. These sale prices run until April 25th. If you have been thinking about taking a DNA test or upgrading your tests now is the time. For more details see: … Continue reading
FAMILYTREE Y-DNA 12 MARKER TEST NOW $49
The sale on the 12 marker Y-DNA test from FamilyTreeDNA has ended, but the new permanent price is still a bargain. This is a good starter test to find some of your ancestors in your paternal lineage. Chances are that … Continue reading
CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE RECORDS FREE ON FOLD3 IN APRIL
In celebration of Confederate History and Heritage Month Fold3 is offering FREE access to its rich collection of Confederate Civil War records for the entire month of April. This contains 32 collections comprising of more than 19 million records, with … Continue reading
JANUARY 2013 GENCOM MEETING INFORMATION
At our January meeting we will be discussing how to determine which county/parish courthouse that houses your ancestors’ records. Because the state and county lines changed frequently as the nation grew, your ancestors may have lived in several states and … Continue reading
