UPCOMING
MEETING--OCTOBER 1, 2009
Business Meeting. Program: "Trip
to England" by James Whitman
Next
meeting, November 5--officer elections
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
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
December 3--Christmas Fellowship
2009 Spring Conference
NEW
LOCATION!
"Who's My Grandpa? I
Think I'm Native American" was held
Saturday, April 11, 2009 from
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Polk County
Senior Center, 1850 W. Broadway, Bolivar, MO
(between Meek's Lumber and the YMCA on
Hwy 32)
For photos of this conference and also
previous years' conferences, please click:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcgsmo/sets/72157622478103268/
SCHEDULE
9:00 a.m. -- 9:15 a.m. Registration
and Browsing
9:15 a.m. -- 9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m. Joe
Underwood, representative for
Gen Smarts, a computer program that
works with your family tree programs and aids
in your research.
10:30 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m.
Break and Browsing
11:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. Seth
Smith, representative for the
newspaper archives in the State Historical
Society of Missouri in Columbia. He
instructed on how to research the
collections.
12:00 p.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m. -- 1:30 p.m.
Browsing
1:30 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. Nancy
Blue spoke on how to trace
Indian heritage.
3:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. Last
chance to shop and visit.
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Meetings are free
and open to the public. Everyone
welcome! |
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