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Past Meetings


Past meetings by Calendar Year ----- 
Note: Historical attendance figures are now available by clicking here.
(External links below might not still be working.)
2009
Jan. 30, 2009
Program:  Irene Walters presented "Using Newspapers to Flesh Out Your Genealogy"
Feb. 27, 2009
Program: Kathryn Black Morrow presented "Migration Trails"
Mar. 27, 2009
Program: Emily Croom presented "Not a Brick Wall Until..." and discussed extreme research techniques
Apr. 24, 2009
BAGS Demolition Day
May 29, 2009
Program: Charlie Gardes presented "Meet Me at the Racoon Lodge: Researching in the International Order of Hoo-Hoo and Other Fraternal Organization Records"
June 26, 2009
Program: Cary Lynne Hall presented "Using City Directories in Genealogy"
July 31, 2009
Program: Burton Chapman presented "History of Telephone Road from Year One"
Aug. 28, 2009
Annual Show and Tell with Potluck
Sept. 25, 2009
Program: Alecya Gallaway of the Galveston County Historical Commission presented "Ike, One Year After: An Update on Galvestion County and Status Reports on Genealogical Points of Interest"
2008
Jan. 25, 2008
BAGS Charter Member Kathryn Black Morrow spoke on "Stories from Local History: Ellington Field and Its People."  Kathryn recently had her book on Ellington Field published. 
Visit her website for more info. http://kathrynmorrowresearch.com
Feb. 29, 2008
Jim Nonus, a 5th generation "BOI" (born on island) Galvestonian, spoke on Jean Lafitte.  His talk is titled "Laffite...A Lifelong Obsession."  More information here.
Mar. 28, 2008
Program: Trevia Wooster Beverly on "What You Don't Know About The Census"
Apr. 25, 2008
Program: “Demolition Day - Breaking down those brick walls ” 
Informal workshop for you to get assistance on your genealogy questions and problems.
May 30, 2008
Program: Bruce Lockett presented “Civil War Shipwrecks in East Texas Rivers”
June 27, 2008
Program: Casey Greene on Galveston's Rosenberg Library collections and history.
Casey spoke on the Galveston and Texas History Center’s holdings and services of importance to genealogists.  A variety of materials, including Galveston city directories, ship passenger manifests, tax records, property records, vital records (particularly mortuary and interment records), records of cemeteries and churches, and newspapers were reviewed.
July 25, 2008
Program: "Scrapbooking your family history" By Cary Lynne Hall
Have you ever thought of Scrapbooking your family history? Members learned the basics of scrapbooking from a fellow genealogist, plus some tips and tricks.
Click for Handout
Aug. 29, 2008
Members Meeting / Show and Tell 
Sept. 26, 2008
Meeting canceled due to Hurricane Ike.
Oct. 24, 2008
Program: Betty Crockford presented "Butch and Sundance - the Real Story with Outlaw Genealogy"
Nov. 21, 2008
Munch and Mingle - Annual Holiday Gathering
Dec. 2008
No General meeting this month
2007
Jan. 26, 2007
“Cite Your Sources!”, Speaker: Gay Carter
Feb. 23, 2007
Mar. 30, 2007
Harris County Archives, A review of County Holdings – Sarah Jackson
Apr. 27, 2007
“General Sam Houston” -- James Hodges, Ph.D.
July 27, 2007
Ginny Toney spoke on “West Virginia History and Research”
Aug 31, 2007
Members Meeting / Show and Tell 
Sept. 28, 2007
Emogene Brummerhop spoke on "More Bay Area Roots by a Seabrook Native"
Oct 26, 2007
Alecya Gallaway, Chairman of the Galveston County Historical Commission
“Past Reflections of a Watershed, A pictorial History of Clear Lake and Clear Creek”
The story of the historic communities and resources that brought the people to settle the watershed from Friendswood to Galveston Bay.
Nov 16, 2007
Dick Warren - "Bulletproofing your genealogy files and let your computer be your friend!" 
Additional information files will be available after the meeting, see this page for links.
2006
Jan. 27, 2006
Lesley Douthwaite, Assistant Manager at Clayton, "Passenger and Immigration Records."
(No electronic copy of handout was provided.)
Feb. 24, 2006
“Migration Trails and Using Maps”, Speaker: Bruce Krewinghaus
(No electronic copy of handout was provided.)
Mar. 31, 2006
"Migration and Naturalization", Speaker: Marje Harris
Apr. 28, 2006
Irene Walters spoke on “Searching Ancestry Plus and Heritage Quest”.
May 26, 2006
Charles H. Russell spoke on his book “Undaunted, A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas”
June 30, 2006
Lesley Douthwaite spoke on “English Research”.
July 28, 2006
Emogene Brummerhop spoke on “Seabrook Happenings” 
Aug 25, 2006
Members Meeting / Show and Tell 
Sept 29, 2006
Clayton's resident database queen Irene Walters described how to "Make Your Genealogy Roar with WorldCat."
Oct 28, 2006
Lynna Kay Shuffield spoke on the "Value of Newspapers in Genealogical Research".
Nov 17, 2006
Emily Croom spoke on "Lost in 1890? -- What To Do When the Census is Missing". 
Dec 15, 2006
Holiday Party -- Program: James Hodges, Ph.D gave a George Washington reenactment on  "Against All Odds - Victory at Yorktown"
2005
Jan 30, 2005


(No electronic copy of handout available.)

Feb 27, 2005


(No electronic copy of handout available.)

March 2005
No meeting
April 24, 2005
Land Records and Deed Finding Aids by Tommy Burns.
Voted on bylaws change for length of term for elected officers.
May 29, 2005
June 26, 2005
July 31, 2005
Aug. 28, 2005
Members Meeting / Show and Tell 
Sept. 30, 2005
"American Revolutionary War Pensions" Kim Morton
Oct. 28, 2005
“German Research with Updates from Germany” Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski
Nov. 18, 2005
“For the Settling of My Temporal Estate: Using Probate Records in Genealogy ” Emily Croom
Dec. 16, 2005
Annual Holiday Party, no speaker
2004
Jan 25, 2004


"New Materials for French Genealogy at Clayton"; HANDOUT

Feb 29, 2004
Robert de Berardinis and Marje Harris (Clayton Library Manager). Their subject was on Genealogical (Research) Problem Solving. They took problems from the audience and showed how to solve them. (Guidelines handout)
Mar 28, 2004
Supplementary handout is available HERE 
(Click below for biographical info) 
Margie Lowe and Genealogy Research using Native American Indian Records
Apr 25, 2004
Loretta "Tommy" Burns -- Finding Aids for our Confederate Ancestors


Handout

May 30, 2004
Irene Walters on Researching in New York (Handout not available)
June 27, 2004
Emily Croom presented Timely Tools for Genealogists (electronic copy of handout not provided)
July 25, 2004
Aug 29, 2004
Annual Member Show & Tell.
Sept. 25, 2004
Installation of new officers;


Program: Robert de Berardinis -- "Using English Language Finding Aids for Texas Research through the Civil War"

Oct 31, 2004
Nov 28, 2004


(No electronic copy of handout available.)

2003
Mar 30, 2003
Apr 27, 2003
Teri is the president of Chaparral Genealogical Society in Tomball, TX. She shared information on how to preserve photos, papers, certificates, and more. 
May 25, 2003
June 29, 2003


Virtual Research: Beyond Data-Bases and GEDCOM files

July 27, 2003


HANDOUT -- Family History Center Resources

Sept 28, 2003
"Genealogy Research Using Clayton's Online Databases", Karen Stanley (biography)


Handout #1 Handout #2

Oct 26


(handouts not available electronically) 

Nov 30, 2003
Don Pusch :"The 1758-1759 Voyage of the French flûte Fortune, or How I got lost in the French navy while researching an east-Texas grandma."


HANDOUTS: 
Presentation Slides (.pdf format)
French Ships' Logs at Clayton (.pdf format)
Bibliography(web page)

Dec. 28, 2003

 

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Houston, TX 77289-1447
www.TxBayAreaGen.org

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