Hello TCGS Members and Guests:
Would you like to highlight and display something about your ancestral history?
Would you like to display a collection that you inherited from one of your ancestors?
Would you like to display an heirloom, antique or vintage item that was handed down from your ancestors?
Would you like to display a personal hobby or a collection you had from the past or currently engaged in?
If so, this is what our December 13th meeting will be all about. We want you to share with us via photographs, documents and a display of family anitques/heirlooms and hobbies and collections. Hobbies and collections of the past are very much part of your ancestral legacy, but your personal past/current hobbies and collections will also become a family legacy to your descendants.
Please consider what you would like to bring to this meeting to display. This will be fun to get to know more about you or your ancestors.
Also, we are asking each of you to bring either homemade or store bought Christmas cookies, candies, fudge, muffins, or breads (banana, zucchini, apple, pumpkin, etc.) to share with one another.
If you have any questions about what to bring, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for supporting TCGS.
Art Kelly
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http://douglascountygensoc.org/photos002.html
With the end of the year comes opportunities to gather together generations of family. Why not take advantage of that to share with your living family the people who came before them? Remember to keep your ideas simple and brief to not overwhelm family members with too much information. Pick out little pieces of interesting information to share and don’t explain distant relationships in detail because most won’t be able to follow you…
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Have you ever come across a place name in your research you aren’t sure still exists? What about a post office name given in a census that isn’t the main town? A town in a country you know little about? Looking for cemeteries near your ancestral home? The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) can help with each of these.
( https://tcgs1961.blogspot.com/2017/10/finding-place-names-using-gnis-and-gns.html )
Heather Murphy wrote an interesting blog post on Research Logs.
With shaking leaves and record hints showing up in many websites it is easy to hop from link to link looking for more records. How often do you take a couple extra minutes to note the record collections you search so you don’t find yourself looking at the same thing a few months later? Research logs aren’t one of the “fun” parts of research, but if you spend a small amount of time creating them you can save yourself time in the future.
25 Sept 2017