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JACKSON COUNTY MICHIGAN
WELCOME
TO THE 2011-2012 YEAR
Place
of Meetings
CROUCH
CENTER
JACKSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF AGING
1715 LANSING AVENUE
Time
SOCIAL TIME 6:00 P.M.
MEETING TIME 6:30 P.M.
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SCHEDULE OF GENERAL
MEETINGS
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DATE
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TIME
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LOCATION
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AGENDA
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September
13, 2011
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6:00 Social
6:30
Meeting
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Tompkins
Center Stewart Museum
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Tompkins
Center Stewart Museum
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October
4, 2011
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6:00 Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Finding
Female Ancestors
Presenter: Karen Krugman
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November
1, 2011
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6:00 Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Solitude
in Stone Slide Show
Presenter: Clyde Chamberlain
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December
6, 2011
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6:00 Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Adoptee
research & Growing Up With Kellogg
Presenter: Phil Rosenberger
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January
3, 2012
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6:00 Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Overview
of "In Their Own Words" interview program
Presenter: Larry Martin
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February
7, 2012
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6:00
Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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JCGS Library and the 1940 census
by Rosalee Griewahn, Chian Kuntz
M-Z names have cookie duty
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March
6, 2012
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6:00
Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Find A Grave
by Deb Hayes-Wolfe
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April
3, 2012
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6:00
Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Researching Your Civil War
Ancestor
by Derek Davey
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May
1, 2012
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6:00
Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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Rosie the Riveter
by Mae Sleight, Marcy Van
Schoick, Ruth Dean
Election of Officers
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June
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No
Meeting
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Have A Safe Summer
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July
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No
Meeting
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Have A Safe Summer
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August
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No
Meeting
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Have A Safe Summer
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September
4, 2012
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6:00
Social
6:30
Meeting
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Department
of Aging
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TBD
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NEW
CIVIL WAR ANCESTOR CERTIFICATE
APPLY NOW
The Jackson County Genealogical Society
will be offering a Civil War Ancestor Certificate to commemorate the start of
the Civil War in 1861.
CLICK button for detailed information on
the Jackson County Civil War Certificate project.
CLICK button for civil War Ancestor
Certificate application.
120 PIONEER
CERTIFICATES AWARDED
Data and genealogical information available
The Genealogy Society
is now making available data and genealogical information from this program.
FOR MORE DETAILS CLICK
BELOW:
JACKSON COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
LIBRARY
ADDRESS
LOCATED AT:
211 W. Ganson Street
Suite 170
Jackson, MI 49201
MAILING ADDRESS
JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 188
JACKSON, MI 49204
PHONE
1-517-768-9266
HOURS
TUESDAY
1 to 5 pm
THURSDAY
1 to 5 pm
SATURDAY
10 am to 4 pm
EMAIL
jcgs.library@yahoo.com
RESEARCH REQUEST
The JCGS Library is staffed by volunteers and always eager to help you
with your genealogical requests.
For further information regarding requests please go the SOCIETY
LIBRARY page.
Email or mail (above address) your request to us today.
Click here for
Society Library Page 
JACKSON
COUNTY MICHIGAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
The Jackson County Genealogical Society, an organization formed and
dedicated to the encouragement and enhancement
of genealogy, was formed in 1977.
Society objectives are:
- Preserve and make
available for genealogical research the records of the Jackson County
Michigan area.
- Encourage and assist
the study of family history, promote the exchange of genealogical
knowledge, and encourage the central deposit of genealogical records.
- Cooperate with other
genealogical societies and assist Jackson County area libraries in
collecting genealogical records, expanding their collections of
published genealogical records, and publishing genealogical material.
- Publish material of
genealogical interest and use to Society members.
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
During the fall of 2008 members of the Austin Blair Camp No. 7 Sons of the
Union Veterans of the Civil War replaced the headstones of eight veterans of
the Civil War buried at Jefferson Cemetery. A dedication ceremony
attended by more than 100 people many descendents of the Veterans was held on
Saturday, May 30, 2009, at the Cemetery in Columbia Township, Jackson County
Michigan. Click to see pictures and information.
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