2nd floor, Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library (Corner of Wilmer & 10th Street, Anniston, AL)
Monthly meetings take place at 1:00 PM on the first Saturday of each month (except for May, June, July and August) unless that Saturday falls in a Holiday weekend. Please pay careful attention to the dates shown below for those months. Since the meeting space occasionally has to be changed from the Ayers Room to the Anniston Room, be sure to check in at the sign-up table outside the Alabama Room. If the table isn't set up, either you're way too early or it's the wrong day!
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Saturday, February 4, 2012. Marty Olliff, Ph. D.--"The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama in WWI." Our speaker is an associate professor of History at Troy University-Dothan Campus. His program will be about how the Alabama home front responded to the mobilization in WW1 and how that response changed the state and its peoples' institutions.
Saturday, March 3, 2012. Dot Bishop--"Courthouse Research." The next best thing to having your own personal guide to courthouse research is hearing one of Dot's programs about it.
Saturday, April 14, 2012. Danny McCarty, one of our finest local authors, will share "Memories of World War II." He will talk about he interviewed WWII veterans and told the story of their war service.
Saturday, May 5, 2012: Lana Floyd--"Doing Your Own Title Searches" This promises to be an extremely helpful program and should nicely complement Dot Bishop's rundown of the different kinds of records to be found in a courthouse. Lana is a graduate of Druid City Hospital School of Nursing in Tuscaloosa. She is a self-taught researcher who specializes in title searches.
JUNE ~ JULY ~ August >>>SUMMER BREAK - NO MONTHLY MEETINGS
Saturday, September 8, 2012: Tom Mullins, Librarian/Genealogist/Historian in the Alabama Room Of The Anniston-Calhoun Co. Public Library. Tom will share with us what he learned at the Samford Genealogy Institute, Samford University. Always an enjoyable and informative program.
Saturday, October 13, 2012: Lisa Baggett--"Cemetery Preservation and Restoration." This will be helpful as a refresher and for our newer members who have not had the benefit of this subject before. Lisa is well versed on this subject and her knowledge and assistance have been invaluable to AlaBenton in learning to obtain approval for local cemeteries' placement on the State Historical Cemetery Preservation List.
Saturday November 3, 2012: Share Your Research. Bring examples of your research and how it is organized to share with the group. It can be on a computer or in folders or in some other form that all our members will be interested in seeing.
Saturday, December 1, 2012: CHRISTMAS PARTY- Bring gifts for Alabama Room (Tom Mullins will personally open every gift). Install new officers for 2013.