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Bay Area Genealogical Society (TX)
Past Meetings
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Past
meetings by Calendar Year -----
Note: Historical attendance figures are now available by clicking here. (External links below might not still be working.) |
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Program: Irene Walters presented "Using Newspapers to Flesh Out Your Genealogy" |
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Program: Kathryn Black Morrow presented "Migration Trails" |
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Program: Emily Croom presented "Not a Brick Wall Until..." and discussed extreme research techniques |
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BAGS Demolition Day |
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Program: Charlie Gardes presented "Meet Me at the Racoon Lodge: Researching in the International Order of Hoo-Hoo and Other Fraternal Organization Records" |
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Program: Cary Lynne Hall presented "Using City Directories in Genealogy" |
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Program: Burton Chapman presented "History of Telephone Road from Year One" |
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Annual Show and Tell with Potluck |
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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" |
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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 |
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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. |
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Program: Trevia Wooster Beverly on "What You Don't Know About The Census" |
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Program: “Demolition Day
- Breaking down those brick walls ”
Informal workshop for you to get assistance on your genealogy questions and problems. |
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Program: Bruce Lockett presented “Civil War Shipwrecks in East Texas Rivers” |
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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. |
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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 |
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Members Meeting / Show and Tell |
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Meeting canceled due to Hurricane Ike. |
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Program: Betty Crockford presented "Butch and Sundance - the Real Story with Outlaw Genealogy" |
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Munch and Mingle - Annual Holiday Gathering |
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No General meeting this month |
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“Cite Your Sources!”, Speaker: Gay Carter |
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Early
Texas History Found in Slave Trade Records by Kathryn Black
Morrow
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Harris County Archives, A review of County Holdings – Sarah Jackson |
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“General Sam Houston” -- James Hodges, Ph.D. |
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Ginny Toney spoke on “West Virginia History and Research” |
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Members Meeting / Show and Tell |
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Emogene Brummerhop spoke on "More Bay Area Roots by a Seabrook Native" |
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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. |
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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. |
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Lesley Douthwaite, Assistant
Manager at Clayton, "Passenger and Immigration Records."
(No electronic copy of handout was provided.) |
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“Migration Trails and Using
Maps”, Speaker: Bruce Krewinghaus
(No electronic copy of handout was provided.) |
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"Migration and Naturalization", Speaker: Marje Harris |
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Irene Walters spoke on “Searching Ancestry Plus and Heritage Quest”. |
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Charles H. Russell spoke on his book “Undaunted, A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas”. |
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Lesley Douthwaite spoke on “English Research”. |
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Emogene Brummerhop spoke on “Seabrook Happenings” |
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Members Meeting / Show and Tell |
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Clayton's resident database queen Irene Walters described how to "Make Your Genealogy Roar with WorldCat." |
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Lynna Kay Shuffield spoke on the "Value of Newspapers in Genealogical Research". |
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Emily Croom spoke on "Lost in 1890? -- What To Do When the Census is Missing". |
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Holiday Party -- Program: James Hodges, Ph.D gave a George Washington reenactment on "Against All Odds - Victory at Yorktown" |
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No
meeting
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Land
Records and Deed Finding Aids by Tommy Burns.
Voted
on bylaws change for length of term for elected officers.
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The
DNA Project and how our members can benefit from contributing to the DNA
pool by Max Blankfeld (click
on title for more details)
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Members
Meeting / Show and Tell
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"American
Revolutionary War Pensions" Kim Morton
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“German Research with Updates from Germany” Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski |
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“For the Settling of My Temporal Estate: Using Probate Records in Genealogy ” Emily Croom |
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Annual Holiday Party, no speaker |
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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)
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Supplementary
handout is available HERE
(Click below for biographical info) Margie Lowe and Genealogy Research using Native American Indian Records |
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Loretta
"Tommy" Burns -- Finding Aids for our Confederate
Ancestors
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Irene
Walters on Researching in New York (Handout not available)
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Emily
Croom presented Timely Tools for Genealogists (electronic copy of handout
not provided)
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Speaker:
Kathryn
Black Morrow on "Seeing What Isn't There; How to Ask Questions as You Research"
(No handout)
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Annual
Member Show & Tell.
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Installation
of new officers;
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Teri
is the president of Chaparral
Genealogical Society in Tomball, TX. She shared information on how
to preserve photos, papers, certificates, and more.
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"Genealogy
Research Using Clayton's Online Databases", Karen Stanley (biography)
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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."
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Bay Area Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 891447
Houston, TX 77289-1447
www.TxBayAreaGen.org
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Member Info Page |
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