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PCGS
PO Box 632
Bolivar, MO
65613-0632
info@pcgsmo.com
417-777-2820
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
President
Susan Sparks
Vice President
Ray Brown
Secretary
Leta Gass
Treasurer
Julie Trout
Director-at-large
Ben Gravely
STORY
LINKS
*The Great Missouri Treasure Hunt has ended!
View the
winners here. Our own Susan Sparks'
story made the Top Five in the Civil War history section.
See her story here.
*"First
Families of
Polk County, Missouri"
Click here to find out
more information on
the First Families
program.
*PCGS is now on
Facebook. Click here
to see our page (it is
public; no need to join
Facebook unless you
want to.)
*"Who are We?"
Click here to look at
some of the
unidentified pictures
of PCGS
*Collection of
Polk County,
Missouri stories
Click here
*PCGS pictures
available on
Flickr.com
Click here
*PCGS wins
2008 Jonas Viles
Award
Click here
*Visit with Roy Blunt,
Sep. 2007
Click here
*Courthouse
100 year
time capsule opened,
2007
Click here
*PCGS
Library
renovation 2007
Click here
*Polk
County History
Book is available for sale
Index online
Click here
*Dedication
of First Burial
at Greenwood Cemetery,
May 2006
Click here
*Television
crew films
segment at PCGS
Library, June 2004
Click here
*Genealogical
Soc. gets
nearly $5,000 for
preservation, 2004
Click here
*PCGS
celebrated
10 years, 2004
Click here
*PCGS
Library building
declared historic site,
July 2003
Click here
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UPCOMING MEETING: JUNE 7, 2012
Starts at 7 p.m.
Business meeting; program "Bolivar,
USA" by Leta Gass
Find out about all of the places named Bolivar in
the USA!
Polk County
Family Histories Book 2!
Submit
your story today! We are STILL collecting
stories!
Click Polk County Family
Histories Book 2 for more information
If you OR your ancestors lived or still live in
Polk County, we WANT your STORY!
If you are a recent transplant to Polk County, we
WANT your STORY!
NEW -- Ozark Empire Fair Scrapbooks and
Collection Finding Aid.
Our
archivist, Leta Gass, spent many weeks
cataloguing and sorting scrapbooks
pictures and other media from the 75 years of the
Ozark Empire Fair. Check out
the finding aid by clicking here.
2011 Ornament
and Puzzles featuring the
Polk County Courthouse
PCGS
presents the must-have gifts for any collector of
Polk County keepsakes! Christmas
ornaments are $5, small puzzles are $8 and large
puzzles are $12. The puzzles come in a beautiful
keepsake silk bag and are 48 pieces and 252 pieces,
respectively. The
items can be purchased at
PCGS's facility on the square in Bolivar or
purchased from the website--
Shop now to get
them sent to your door!
Do you belong to one of the "First Families
of Polk County, Missouri"?
The First Families of
Polk County, Missouri --The year 2010
marked the 175th
anniversary of the creation of Polk County,
Missouri. In honor of this event, PCGS is
proud to sponsor Polk County's First Families.
This program will recognize the families
who have made Polk County their home sometime
between 1835 and 1935. Individuals
will trace their ancestors back to one of four
periods:
Founding Families 1835 - 1860
Pioneer Families 1861 - 1879
Settler Families 1880 - 1899
Century Families 1900 - 1935.
Click here to find out more
information on the First Families program.
This is an
ongoing project, so you are not too late! Click here to see a
list of First Family names already certified as
part of the program.
President's Corner
I went on a genealogical research trip
last month to visit a public library
and a museum where I was asked about the success
of PCGS. I stopped for a
second and the many things that make us
successful ran through my mind: our
awesome and hard-won collection of Polk County
resources, the numerous
finding aids, the resources we have collected
that make us a regional
facility, our website. While all this was running
through my mind I also
reflected on my time that day spent at the local
library where they "pointed
and grunted" me towards their research
closet, where I was left to dig
through layers of resources with no one to guide
me.
I am sure you all can relate to how frustrating
that is. I didn't know the
region, collection or how to run their microfilm
reader. What I did know was
that I had driven two hours and had the next
three hours to research before
I had to head home. Oh, I also knew the surnames
I was interested in and I
had specific questions I needed answered. This is
when it became clear to me
what our most valuable resource is at PCGS and
what makes our society so
successful. IT IS OUR VOLUNTEERS! Without the
dedicated volunteers that
create the finding aids, books, website and are
willing to go above and
beyond the call of duty to help a researcher make
the most of their time at
our facility, we wouldn't be as successful as we
are. From the moment you
enter and are greeted by a friendly face and the
smell of fresh brewed
coffee, to the moment you discover the
information you seek, we are here to
serve you, our patrons. So please try to work a
trip to PCGS into your next
vacation and meet the awesome team of volunteers
that are the life-blood of
our facility.
Susan Sparks
New on our
website: Archived Newsletters from the first years of
PCGS.
They are searchable. Take a look at them and see
how far we've come!
(A big thank you to Mike Jones for scanning
and digitizing the newsletters!)
INCLEMENT
WEATHER POLICY:
If Bolivar
schools are closed because of weather, the
library will also be closed.
There will be no night meeting, either, if school
is closed on a Thursday.
If bad weather develops on a Thursday afternoon
before the regular monthly meeting,
members can call 417-777-2820 to find out the
status of the meeting.
Click here for school closings
list at ky3.com
CLOSING DATES FOR 2012:
Wednesday, July 4, for Independence Day
Monday, September 3, for Labor Day
Wednesday, November 21 through Sunday, November
25, for Thanksgiving Break
Monday, December 24 through Tuesday,
January 1, 2013, for Christmas Break
PCGS will re-open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday,
January 2, 2013.
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Created
in memory of our members who have passed on.
Click here for the Member Memorial Tribute Page.
NEW FINDING AID--Polk County Commitment
Records
These are records of individuals committed to
state hospitals and sanatoriums.
Click here for link.
Will Book Index new April 2009
To see
the list of wills, click the link above.
INDEXES OF LIBRARY
HOLDINGS AND OTHER RESOURCES
UPDATED
September 2010
Library holdings, archival holdings, obituary
files, microfilm, archival finding aids,
index to Polk County History Book
To see the listings, click here
GEOCACHING--Geocaching
is an
activity in which the participants use a
Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other
navigational techniques to hide
and seek containers (called "geocaches"
or "caches") anywhere in the world.
PCGS is now part of the geocaching community.
For more
information, please see this website Grandma's
Little Stash
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=48059b6f-fd44-4c45-88ae-07c7d0d0be53
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