News and Newsletter For (And About) Our Members
2010
July 10 - Meeting in the large room at the library - The speaker, Sheila Scarborough is the daughter of our past president, Joanne Scarborough. She is a retired Navy Commander and won the 2010 "Texas Social Media" Award from the Austin American Statesman.
June 8 - We had our annual "picnic" meeting this year, inside at the American Legion Hall in Kingsland. I never got a total count of members attending but, it was in the neighborhood of 45. The food was delicious as always and our thanks go to our Vice President, Jim Hampton and his wife, Jackie for providing the pulled pork for the meat dish on the menu. Thanks to all of you that brought food and provided the necessary equipment to hold the meeting. Our Pres. Carolynn Gallagher obtained the hall for our use and no expense.Thanks Carolynn.
May 11
James Harkins from the General Land Office, Austin spoke to us about finding land records and other early Republic of TX documents in the Land Office.
April 12
President Carolynn Gallagher called the regular meeting of the Kingsland Genealogical Society to order at 2:00 pm on April 12, 2010 at the Kingsland American Legion Hall
Ø Program – Dorothy Medley introduced today’s presenter Al Breton, a KGS member. Today’s program is a presentation on Canada. There will be a speaker from State in May and the annual picnic will be in June.
Ø Daughters of Republic of Texas and the family of David Hill will have recognition May 29, 2010 Saturday at 2:00pm at the San Jacinto Veterans Memorial.
Bookcase – Roger Scarborough reported that the bookcase will be installed April 14 at 2:00 pm.
Mar. 9.
Ø Program – Dorothy Medley introduce today’s presenter Rachel Bryson who is a native of Burnet County and who writes a column on local history for the River Cities Tribune and Picayune called “North of Joppa”. The program is the story of Martha Virginia Webster Strickling/land Simmons and the settlement of the local town Strickling.
Ø Membership – Vivian Williams reported that there were 25 members in attendance, 43 paid memberships and 2 lifetime memberships
Feb.9
Ø Program presenter Tom Keyes. Mr. Keyes is from Sheboygan Falls, WI and spends part of the winter here in Highland Lakes. He is a family historian and longtime Irish researcher. He has been the webmaster for the Irish Roots Web project; he is a board member of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; and, he is a member of the SAR and the Wisconsin Mayflower Descendants. Roger Scarborough provided background information on Mr. Keyes.
Jan 12
The 2010 officers introduced themselves: Carolyn Gallagher, President; Jim Hampton, Vice President; Raye Lokey, Secretary; Almarene Moore, Historian; Glora Belle Rasmussen, Treasurer; Sue Langley, Iris Biediger, Sue Ashby, Roger Scarborough, and Charles Jackson, Board of Directors.
Hope everyone had minimal damage to their houses from the hail storm, etc. Or, if you did,
you had insurance that covered it and have it fixed.
Our society has had some members who had some terrible things happen
to them, lately.
Susan Smith lost her husband in Mar. and the same month, Colleen Kenyon lost her daughter.
One of our new members, Barbara Miner, is with her husband in FL, where
he is having chemo for his cancer.
'Mac' McLeod is fighting a battle of his own with melanoma.
Our love and thoughts go to all of them.
June-
June 30 - Bill & Sue Ashby celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary.
June or July?
On happy news, Joanne and Roger got to go to his service reunion. Haven't
heard how it was.
Barbara and Ray Burke just recently celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary.
Is that correct, Barbara?
Does anyone have good news that they would like to share?
This "Swine" H1N1 Flue is getting scary, isn't it?
Please be safe all of you by taking all of the precautions, necessary.
Sept. Oct.
Our dear member Dwight "Mac" McLeod lost his fight with melanoma and Barbara Miner's husband, Ed, lost his battle also.
Please remember the families of all these that we have lost, in your prayers...
Nov - Dec.
Our long time member Harold Spann, is in the nursing home, Granite Mesa, in Marble Falls. He is not doing well and Reba and he, need our support and prayers.
Election of our new officers was held and they were installed. at our annual Christmas party. We had 41 (I believe that count is right) in attendance and our usual White Elephant gift exchange was held with fun for all. The food at Francesco's was great, as usual.
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Web sites you may want
The National Genealogical Society is having their National Conference
in the States on May 13-16, in Raleigh. ( I won't be able to attend, even
if this flu thing wasn't going on) But, I do plan on ordering some audio
tapes for some of the classes that will be given, that I'm really interested
in.
If you are interested you can go to the web site:
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/conferences_and_events
Also, the Dallas Genealogy Society is having a seminar in July. You
can read all about it at their web site:
http://dallasgenealogy.org
NC is one of the states that has most of their county pages now, listed with another server. So, if you have been having trouble getting to your favorite NC county, here is the URL for those counties.
If any of you have interests in Chatham, Moore or Montgomery Co.'s and I created and maintain those pages. Here are the URLs for them.
http://www.ncgenweb.us/chatham/
http://www.ncgenweb.us/montgomery
Some of the links, in all of them, do not work. (because of the change
in servers) But, I am still trying to fix them.
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