UPCOMING
MEETING, JUNE 6, 2013
Business meeting;
Program "Member Share Time"
no meeting on July 4
Potluck dinner at PCGS July 11, 6 p.m.
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.
The PCGS Library Hours are 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat.
RECENT &
UPCOMING MEETING PROGRAMS:
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Meeting
minutes are attached on
a separate page which can be accessed from
here.
April 2003--PCGS
Members "Show and Tell"
May--Gary Ayres of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans
June--Linda Myers of the
Missouri State Archives
July 3--PCGS Members
"Show and Tell" about Revolutionary
War ancestor
July 10--Daytime
meeting--Gloria Bogart Carter, genealogy
columnist--1:30 p.m.
August 7--Linda
Crawford speaking on old terminology
September 4--PCGS Members
"Share your Research" time
September 11--Research night
October 2--Father Moses
Berry "African-American Heritage
of the Ozarks--Remembering Our
Ancestors"
November 6--Election of PCGS
Officers for 2004
December 4--Christmas party
January 8, 2004--Annual
meeting, Program by Bill Kallenbach,
"Charles U. Becker, Missouri Secretary
of State"
January 15--"Basic
Genealogy" class
February 5--cancelled
due to snow
March 4--video on "Old
Jail Museum"
April 1--Charles Gass
"Land Surveying System"
May 6--Dale Newcomb
"Propaganda on Coins"
June 3--Linda Cushman,
author "All for the Southern Cause"
July 1--Rena Smith and Reva
Altic, "Overcashes in Pennsylvania"
August 5--Jim Hamilton,
Editor of the Bolivar Herald-Free Press
September 2--Charles Gass,
"The Lewis and Clark Expedition"
October 7--PCGS Members
"Audience Participation" time
November 4--"Genealogy
Quiz" & election of PCGS Officers
for 2005
December 2--Christmas party
with refreshments
January 6, 2005--Ray
Carneal on railroad history
February 3--Diane Eilenstein
"Preserving Cemeteries in the National
Parks"
March 3--no program
April 7--Linda Crawford
"Melungeon Research"
May 5--John Lower
"Relict Plants as Vestiges of Vanished
Homes"
June 2--Jeff Patrick from
Wilson's Creek Battlefield
July 7--Bethany Adamson,
United Daughters of the Confederacy
August 4--Mark Stephens,
"Old Photos and Restoration"
September 1--Barbara Davolt,
Polk County Public Administrator
October 6--Bob
Neumann, Springfield-Greene County Archivist
November 3--Laura Hoffer
Ritter, records available at Pitts Chapel
December 1--Christmas
celebration
January 5, 2006--Members'
New Year's Resolutions
February 2--"The Life
and Times of Patrick Gass" by Charles
Gass
March 2--Teresa Barker
"Formation of the Universal Brethren and
Dunkard Churches
April 6--Kermit Hargis,
Polk County Emergency Management Director
(CANCELLED)
May 4--Matt Forir,
"River Bluff Cave in Greene Co.,
MO"
June 1--Member Share Time
July 6--Bob Marsden,
Leslie's Craft Carousel, "Framing &
Displaying Heirlooms"
August 3--Larry Dablemont,
local author, "Authoring a book of
family stories & history"
September 7--Dale Goodman of
Cedar County
October 5--Michael Price
"Dating of Old Photographs"
November 2--Diane Warren
"Diary of a Civil War Ancestor"
December 7--Christmas party
January 4, 2007--Planning
meeting, no program
February 1--John Rutherford,
"Was any of your family in military
conflicts?" (cancelled-snow)
March 1--Paul Mott
"Wills and Trusts" (program
postponed-meeting still held)
April 5--Ernestine Kinsey
"Stewarts in the Civil War"
May 3--Ed Kurtz, "Homes
in Bolivar"
June 2 (Saturday)--picnic at
Dunnegan Park 3 - 8 p.m. Program "Ozarks
Trivia"
June 7--no meeting on
Thursday night
July 5--Larry Dablemont and
his Uncle Norten
August 2--Brenda Pearson
from Shell Title Company
September 6--Wilbur Zink
"Jesse James and the Younger Gang"
October 4--Cheri Jones
"Scrapbooking"
November 1--Elections; Dr.
Jack Roy "Buttercup Churn and
Mixer"
December 13--Christmas
party; "Member share time"
January 3, 2008--Planning
meeting, no program
February 7--Herb Boyce,
"Unearthing Hidden Treasures"
March 6--Jean Vincent
"Hidden Treasures in the National
Archives"
April 3--Sandra Brown
"How to Care for and Preserve your
Documents"
May 1--Mixed presentation by
multiple speakers
June 5--Research night at
PCGS Library
June 21 (Saturday) Picnic at
Dunnegan Park 3 - 8 p.m.
July 3--Member share time
August 7--Linda Crawford
"Old Documents"
September 4--Carolyn Mott
"Campbell Family"
October 2--Susan Sparks
"Exploring the 100 year time
capsule"
November 6--Elections/Christine
Thiessen "DAR"
December 4--Christmas party;
"Member share time"
January 8, 2009--Planning meeting,
no program
February 5--Ben Gravely "First
Churches of Polk County"
March 5--Susan Sparks
"Inventors of Polk County"
April 2--Richard Sunderwirth
"The Burning of Osceola, Missouri"
May 7--Peter Nichols "The
Springs of Cedar County"
June 4--Ken White "Experiences
with the Truman Family: the Common and
Uncommon Couple"
June 13 (Saturday) Picnic at
Dunnegan Park Pavilion 1, 4 p.m.
July 2--Member Share Time
August 6--Charles Gass "Polk
County Railroads"
September 3--Debbi Roberts-McGinnis
"History of the Collector's Office"
October 1--James Whitman "Trip
to England"
November 5--Elections; Susan
Sparks "Bolivar's Water/Sewer
System"
December 3--Christmas Fellowship
January 7, 2010--cancelled due to inclement
weather
February 4--cancelled due to
inclement weather
March 4--Wayne Holmes, author of
"Rocky Comfort"
April 1--Member share time
May 6--Ben Gravely "Local
Newspapers Old and New"
June 3--Charles Gass "Lewis and
Clark Expedition"
June 26 (Saturday) Picnic at
Dunnegan Park Pavilion 1, 4 p.m. moved to
the PCGS facility
July 1--Ezell Goodwin "The
Cave and Springs of Stockton"
August 5--Dan Cross "Tokens and
Coins"
September 2--Jean Raney
"Wimberly Journals"
October 7--Carolyn Mustain Mott
"Howard S. Keeling"
November 4--Elections; Bob Phillips
"Fair Play and Dunnegan"
December 2--Christmas
Fellowship; Debbi Roberts-McGinnis
"Israel trip"
January 6, 2011--member share time
February 3--canceled due to snow
March 3--Doug Porter
"Archaeology: The Lone Rock
Petroglyph"
April 7--William Walker
"Mexican War"
May 5--Dan Cross "A Story from
Down Under: How Coins from Australia ended up
in Polk County"
June 2--Ezell Goodwin "Oldtime
Cheese Making"
June 25 (Saturday) Picnic at
Dunnegan Park Pavilion 1, 4 p.m.
July 7--Member Share Time
August 4--Christine Thiessen
"Escape from Iran"
September 1--Leta Gass "75
years of the Ozark Empire Fair"
October 6--Brad Wright, "Lake
Stockton"
November 3--Elections; Dr. Tim Wood
"Quakers in America"
December 1--Christmas
Fellowship and share time
January 5, 2012--member survey; round table
discussion
February 2--Dr. Donald Jump, DDS
"The History of Dentristy in
Missouri"
March 1--Jan Breshears Thomas
"Findagrave.com"
April 5--Bob Phillips
"Paynterville, MO"
May 3--Patrick Douglas "Douglas
Family Bible Returns Home"
June 7--Leta Gass "All the
Bolivars in the USA"
June 23 (Saturday) Picnic at
Dunnegan Park Pavilion 1, 4 p.m.
July 5--Member Share Time
August 2--Ezell Goodwin
"Gypsies in Polk County"
September 6--Dustin Jones
"Murder Mystery"
October 4--Tom Rafiner "Civil
War, Order no. 11"
November 1--Elections; Morris
Westfall "Halfway, MO"
December 6--Christmas
Fellowship and share time
January 3, 2013--"You Thought You Knew What We
Do" a behind-the-scenes look at PCGS
February 7--Jeff Patrick, Wilson's
Creek National Battlefield
March 7--Ben Gravely "Cable
Mill in Polk County"
April 4--Shawn Thacker
"Genealogy and Technology"
May 2--Leta Gass "Polk Counties
in the USA"
June 6--Member Share Time
July 4 --No MEETING
July 11--Potluck dinner at PCGS facility 6
p.m.
August 1--
September 5--
October 3--
November 7--Elections;
December 5--Christmas
Fellowship and share time
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