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Date Speaker Topic
2012    
January 19 FamilySearch Indexing and the Texas County Tax Rolls Project
February 16 War of 1812 Records
March 15 1940 Census
April 19 Newspaper Research
May 17 Unusual Resources for Research
June 21 DNA
July 19 Probate Records
August No Meeting
September 20 Researching in England
October 20 TBD
November 15 Annual Member Sharing Meeting
December No Meeting
2011    
January 20 Joyce Wans What My Great Great Grandfather Taught Me
February 17 Joan Upton Hall, San Gabriel Writers League Skills for creative non-fiction writing
March 17 Sylvia Nimmo Genealogy Software
April 21 Tresa Tatyrek Mining the Bureau of Land Management website
May 19 Karen Matheson "Fast Forward with FamilySearch!"
June 16 Terry M. McCarty and Margaret Ann Chatfield McCarty The Chatfield Story
July 21 James Hollas "Why Hire a Professional Researcher?"
August No Meeting
September 15 Karen Matheson and
Rebecca Broadbent
“Document Analysis: What does it say? What does it mean? What do I do now?”
October 20 Virtual Presenter TBA
November 17 Member Sharing
December No Meeting
2010    
January 14 Teri Flack, Austin Genealogical Society Using Courthouse Records
February 11 Bill & Mary Anne Campbell Wagon Train Life on the California Trail in 1852
March 12 Elizabeth Johnston, WCGS Virginia and Missouri Resources
April 8 Karen J Matheson, WCGS Fast Forward with FamilySearch!
May 13 Phoebe Allen, Austin Genealogical Society Cousin Camp: Linking the Youngest Members of Your Family to Each Other and Their Ancestors
June 10 Randy Whited, WCGS Internet Resources and Communities
July 8 John Marostica,
WCGS Webmaster
"Other Useful Computer programs
to help with your genealogy work"
August No Meeting
September 9 Karen J. Matheson Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: U.S. Immigration and Ships' Passenger Lists
October 14 Helga von Schweinitz,
local German researcher and author
"German Cousins, Then and Now"
November 13 Randy Whited
Programs Chair
"Show and Learn"
2009    
June 11 Kevin Klaus, Texas General Land Office Holdings of the State Land Office & How They Relate to Genealogy
July 9 Randy Whited, Austin Genealogical Society It's All Greek to Me: How to research foreign records when you don't speak the language
September 10 Anna & Dale Fell One Family Honoring Their Ancestors:  A Story about Reclaiming a Texas Cemetery
October 8 WCGS Show and Tell: Artifacts and Heirlooms Members and visitors are invited to bring for display and explain items now in their possession that have been passed down to them from an ancestor
November 12 James Hollis, Austin Genealogical Society Digital Photography for Genealogists