January 30, 2005
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Writing Your Family History – Beginning with the Box
“From Overwhelming Junk into a Written History” by Kathryn Black Morrow
How often do we think that we know a relative only to find out later that what we knew about that individual was only the pieces in that box of their stuff? We have accumulated things related to them but don’t really know them at all. Kathryn Black Morrow will show us how to take those pieces, organize the box of overwhelming junk and turn it intoa a personal history.
She will show, by example, how to organize those lone pieces of pictures, letters, jewelry or other memorabilia into chronologic sequences and then and turn them into their personal stories, weave them one by one into a sketch of that person or family. What a way to put character in the person and chart.
Since this session is a one hour presentation, Kathryn may conduct follow up one on one classes where you will be able to write your own history. If you are interested contact Kathryn or one of the BAGS officers and tell them you are interested.
You are cordially invited to join the BAGS at its next regular meeting on January 30th at 5:00 PM in the Sanctuary at University Baptist Church 16106 Middlebrook Drive in Clear Lake City.
Kathryn is an historian and professional genealogist with 35 years of experience. She has done extensive on-site research at archives in Raleigh, North Carolina, Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dallas, Texas, and Clayton Genealogical library in Houston.
In 1980, she was chosen as a Delegate from the State of Oklahoma to the World Conference on Records held in Salt Lake City, Utah. She served as the co-founder and archivist for the Railroad Depot Museum and as President for the Harrah Heritage and Historical Society in Harrah, Oklahoma. Under her leadership, a permanent collection of artifacts and photos for display in the museum was established at the University of Oklahoma, and sufficient historical information was compiled to produce a book.
From 1990 until 1997, she served on the Landmark Designation Commission for the City of Longmont, Colorado, assisting in the preservation and designation of historic buildings. She also volunteered as a grant reader for the Colorado State Historical Society.
Kathryn received a B.A in Modern languages from Oklahoma City University in 1981, and an M.A. in History from the University of Houston, Clear Lake in 2003. Her Master’s thesis was a History of Ellington Field, which was published as a series of articles in the BAGS quarterlies this last year. In 2003, Kathryn was asked to evaluate and index the Heartman Collection of slave documents at Texas Southern University. Most recently, she was asked by the French Consulate in Houston to be the historian for the international observance of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day ceremony, held June 6 th, 2004.
Kathryn and her husband Michael live in Clear Lake, and have four children and seven grandchildren scattered across the world in Guam, Germany, Utah, and San Antonio.