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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.)
Jan. 28, 2011	Program: James Bevill presented a visual journey through financial instruments used by the Provisional Government of Texas (1835-186) and how it relates to Texas gaining her independence from Mexico
Feb. 25, 2011	Program: Cary Hall presented "Wanted Dead or Alive, the parents of Eli Hugh Davis"
Mar. 25, 2011	Program: Nick Cimino presented "How to Trace Your Ancestors in Italy"
April 29, 2011	Program: Gay Carter presented "Who Knows...What Answers...Lurk on the Internet?" An Adventure with 20th Century Research: a case study showing the use of Internet resources used in conjunction with traditional sources to resconstruct and individual's story.
May 27, 2011	Program: Anne Dunphey Becker presented "Houston - "After the Civil War and Before Oil - As Seen Throught Photographs"
June 24, 2011	Program: Eric Sandifer presented "Who Were the Hugenots?" Presented in period dress - William Barrett Travis was a Juguenot descendant as was David Crockett.
July 29, 2011	Program: Linda Jamison presented "The Orphan Trains"
Aug. 26, 2011	Program: BAGS Annual Show and Tell
Sept. 30, 2011
*2010*
Jan. 29, 2010	Program: Irene Walters presented "Researching Using Microfilm and Microfiche at Clayton Library"
Feb. 26, 2010	Program: Bruce Lockette discussed his current marine salvage projects
Mar. 26, 2010	Program: Dick Eastman presented "Putting the Genes in Genealogy"
Apr. 30, 2010	Annual BAGS Demolition Day: Breaking down your research “brick walls”.
May 28, 2010	Program: Susan Kaufman presents “Unusual resources...or...that is some cool stuff!”
June 25, 2010	Program: Jerry Woodman presents "The Master Genealogist - Don't be Intimidated"
July 30, 2010	Program: Gay Carter, Reference/Documents Librarian at the UHCL Alfred R. Neumann Library, presents “Everything Old Is New Again: Electronic Government Information and Genealogy”
Aug. 27, 2010	Annual Show & Tell with Potluck Dinner
Sept. 24, 2010	Program: Sue Yerby presents "That record should exist, let's try the last resort, the FHC."
Oct. 29, 2010	Program: Blaine Hedberg will discuss researching Norwegian ancestry
Nov. 13, 2010	BAGS Annual Holiday Party
Dec. 2010	No General Meeting this Month
*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"
Oct. 30, 2009	Program: David Bowles, Texas Historian and Author, will share research techniques
Nov. 21, 2009	BAGS Annual Holiday Party
Dec. 2009	No General Meeting this Month
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	Early Texas History Found in Slave Trade Records by Kathryn Black Morrow
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.
Dec. 7, 2007	BAGS Annual Holiday Banquet
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	Writing Your Family History -- Beginning with the Box "From Overwhelming Junk into a Written History" by Kathryn Black Morrow (No electronic copy of handout available.)
Feb 27, 2005	Finding Aids - Audience Question & Answer Session with Marje Harris and Robert de Berardinis (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	Where in the World? Using Maps in Genealogy by Emily Croom
June 26, 2005	"Library Resources as Finding Aids for Genealogists" by Marje Harris
July 31, 2005	The DNA Project and how our members can benefit from contributing to the DNA pool by Max Blankfeld (click on title for more details)
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	Robert de Berardinis (bio) "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	Click here for original handout 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	Speaker: Kathryn Black Morrow on "Seeing What Isn't There; How to Ask Questions as You Research" (No handout)
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	Gayle Workman talked about railroads being an important historical source for the migration and illustrates the direction and growth of travel, settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. Click for more information. (No handout available.)
Nov 28, 2004	Gay Carter: "Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Tools for Planning a Successful Research Trip" (No electronic copy of handout available.)
2003
Mar 30, 2003	March Meeting -- View Dan Cochran's presentation on how to use GEDCOM files to pass our information along to others
Apr 27, 2003	View the handout from the April meeting: Document Preservation, Our Gift to the Future 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	Click to view the handout from the May meeting: Merry Olde England: How to get there from here. Marje Harris, presenter, is the manager at Clayton Library.
June 29, 2003	Charles Gardes, Houston Genealogical Forum Virtual Research: Beyond Data-Bases and GEDCOM files
July 27, 2003	Biography -- Kathryn Black Morrow HANDOUT -- Family History Center Resources
Sept 28, 2003	"Genealogy Research Using Clayton's Online Databases", Karen Stanley (biography) Handout #1 Handout #2
Oct 26	"Stepping Back in Time -- Problem Solving" with Marje Harris (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	Eric and Glenda Sandifer spoke on the War between the States (announcement only, no handouts)

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Houston, TX 77289-1447
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