2007-2008 Workshop Schedule

How Cemetery Records Speak!

A special FREE Workshop on African American Genealogy and the use of cemetery records.

Tuesday February 19, 2008

1:30 P.M.—3:30 P.M.

At the beautifully waterfront -

Fort Pierce Branch of the St. Lucie County Library
Located at the corner of Melody Lane and Orange Ave.

 

1:30 - Samuel Gaines, Stone Brothers Funeral Home and Bill Yates, Yates Funeral Home will speak on finding and using cemetery records.

 

2:30 - Larry Lee, local State Farm Insurance agent and community leader, will share his family history and the experiences of this research.

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Genealogy Seminar

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Sponsored by TREASURE COAST GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Speaker:  Pam Cooper,
Indian River County Library Genealogy Librarian

Pam has been the supervisor of the Florida History and Genealogy Department for the Indian River County Main Library since 1986.  Pam is a teacher and lecturer on genealogy at local, state and national levels and has been a genealogist since 1977.  At the National Genealogical Society conference in May of 2000, she received the Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship.

9am TO 3 pm (8:30 Registration)

Trinity Evangelical Presbyterian Church
5150 Oleander Avenue
(Just south of Midway Road, across from White City Elementary School)

Four Great Topics for the beginner and the experienced genealogist!
           
Timing Is Everything:  How to pinpoint your ancestors by making a timeline and see where they fit in history

 

Border to Border: Statewide resources and indexes to use in your ancestor hunt

Church Records:  Pray that you can find an ancestor’s church, and better yet, the church records.
 
Hidden Resources:   Underused, unheard of and not-so-new records, or where you have NOT looked for ancestors.

Please bring a brown-bag lunch. 
TCGS will supply drinks and desserts.

Download & Print Registration Form (pdf file)

Make check payable to TCGS and mail registration fee to:
TCGS, P.O. Box 12582, Fort Pierce, FL 34981

From I-95:  Exit at Midway Road (712); Go east to Oleander and turn south.  Church is about 2 blocks down on the east side of the road. 

From U.S. 1:  Turn west on Midway Road (712); Go west to Oleander (first red light) and turn south.  Church is about 2 blocks on east side of road, across from White City Elementary.

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Early St. Lucie County and The Seminole Nation Free Workshop

Tuesday, April 8
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

 

Main St. Lucie County Library Meeting Room, Melody Lane

Louise Jones Gopher, a graduate of St. Lucie County Schools, the Indian River community College and Florida Atlantic University, and retired educator for Brighton Seminole Reservation  will speak on growing up in St. Lucie county and living in Seminole camps;

 

Lucille Rieley Rights-Murtough, local archeologist, historian and author,  will speak on early St. Lucie County and the Seminole Nation;

Sponsored by the Treasure Coast Genealogical Society

 

TCGS volunteers every Tuesday at the Downtown Fort Pierce Branch of the St. Lucie County Library in the reference department on the second floor to help patrons research their family history.  Volunteers are usually there from 9 AM to 3 PM. 

TCGS’s mission is to help you find your ancestors, preserve history and historical records, compile and make records available, and to study the history and social customs of all our ancestors. 

Email: tcgsociety@gmail.com or visit our website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~fltcgs/index.html