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Monday, June 5
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting (Jewish Genealogy SIG)
10:00 am to 11:50 am Eisenhower Recreation Center, 3560 Buena Vista Blvd.
Prior to the meeting date, SIG members will receive an email about the upcoming meeting.
Meeting Topic: Patronymic Naming and Cemetery Records
Coordinator: Herb Siegel
Programs: Phil Goldsmith |
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Monday, June 5
RootsMagic Special Interest Group Meeting (Roots Magic SIG)
2:30 pm to 4:20 pm SeaBreeze Recreation Center, Destin Room
Topic: Back to Basics / Bring your laptops
Coordinator: George Zitterell
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Tuesday, June 6
Adoption & Missing Kin Special Interest Group Meeting (Adoption & Missing Kin SIG)
10:00 am to 11:20 am Online ZOOM Meeting
Topic: Ghosts in the Family Tree: Tips for Finding Your Invisible Ancestors
Speaker: Tricia Lewis Noel
Coordinators: Marcella Zorn & Bill Canavan
SIG members will receive an e-mail with the Zoom link.
Others please contact the coordinator, through the SIG web page, for the link to this meeting |
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Monday, June 12
It Gets Even Better Offline (VGS Live Webinar)
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm LIVE WEBINAR
Guest Speaker: Tom Jones
Description: Anecdotes show how to follow online clues to valuable offline information (and vice versa). This presentation will also explore the fun and serendipity aspects of offline research.
Presenter Info: Tom Jones has been pursuring his ancestry since 1963. For the first twenty-five years he was clueless about what he was trying to accomplish and how to do it. When he started climbing the genealogy learning curve he repeatedly experienced the challenges, joys, and rewards of tracing ancestors reliably and of fully understanding their lives. Tom eventually became an award-winning writer, board-certified genealogist, editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, recipient of honors from genealogical organizations, and author of the popular textbooks Mastering Genealogical Documentation and Mastering Genealogical Proof.
Click HERE to register in advance to attend this webinar:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Monday, June 19
Best Practices SIG Meeting (Best Practices SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Online Zoom Meeting
Coordinators: Annette Burke-Lyttle & Pat Adams
Topic: Get Help from Others
The SIG accepts new members throughout the year, but those who join after January 2023 should be prepared to catch up on the chapters that have already been studied. Visit our SIG webpage for more details.
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Monday, June 26
FTM SIG Meeting (Family Tree Maker SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ZOOM MEETING
REGULAR MOTHLY MEETING
SIG Coordinators: Karen Feeney & Bob Boerst
(Meeting link will be emailed to SIG members approximately 5 days prior to meeting date.)
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Wednesday, June 28
VGS General Monthly Meeting (VGS Monthly Meeting)
10:00 am to 12:45 pm ZOOM Meeting Only (Savannah Center IS NOT AVAILABLE.)
Guest Speaker: Pamela Holland
Topic: Irish Chain Migration to North America
Our Irish ancestors did not immigrate on a whim. They often followed in the footsteps of other family members or their neighbors and friends. Learn about the history of chain migration including well known routes from specific Irish locations to cities and regions in North America. Discover strategies for recognizing and exploring chain migration in your family.
Speaker's Bio:
Pamela Guye Holland lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and has been researching family roots found in Ireland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Germany for over twenty years. She is currently the co-president of The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA). Pam works for Research Services at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and as the US-based genealogist in the Green Room at YourIrishHeritage.com. Her research specialities are Irish and Genetic Genealogy. Her website is GenealogyByPamHolland.com.
To attend this Zoom only meeting: please register in advance by clicking HERE.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Monday, July 10
What Happened to Uncle Walter? Evidence Analysis & Correlation Uncover a Man's Dual Identities (VGS Live Webinar)
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm LIVE WEBINAR
Guest Speaker: Sharon Hoyt
Topic: What Happened to Uncle Walter? Walter's family lost touch with him in the 1920s when he was a young man. More than a century later, his nieces' questions about their missing uncle resulted in new and surprising discoveries. Learn how collaboration, evidence correlation, and predictive research solved the century-old mystery of Walter's fate.
Presenter Info: Sharon Hoyt, CG, is a researcher, speaker, instructor, and author from California's Silicon Valley who enjoys sharing discoveries from brick wall cases. Her work has won Family History writing contests sponsored by the National Genealogical Society and the Minnesota Historical Society, and has been published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and Minnesota Genealogist.
Click HERE to register in advance to attend this webinar:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Monday, July 17
Best Practices SIG Meeting (Best Practices SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Online Zoom Meeting
Coordinators: Annette Burke-Lyttle & Pat Adams
Topic: Professional Help, Step Back & Learn
The SIG accepts new members throughout the year, but those who join after January 2023 should be prepared to catch up on the chapters that have already been studied. Visit our SIG webpage for more details.
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Monday, July 24
FTM SIG Meeting (Family Tree Maker SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ZOOM MEETING
REGULAR MOTHLY MEETING
SIG Coordinators: Karen Feeney & Bob Boerst
(Meeting link will be emailed to SIG members approximately 5 days prior to meeting date.)
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Wednesday, July 26
VGS General Monthly Meeting (VGS Monthly Meeting)
10:00 am to 12:45 pm ZOOM Meeting Only (Savannah Center IS NOT AVAILABLE.)
Guest Speaker: Karen Feeney (VGS Website Manager)
Topic: The In's & Out's of the VGS Website
Exploring all the nooks and crannies of a website can be daunting but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how to navigate the VGS website with our Web Manager, Karen Feeney. She’ll show you the basics of how to log in, how to access your membership profile, where to find the handouts for an upcoming program, and how to renew your membership online, AND she’ll also show you where you can uncover some genealogy gems on the website that can help you with your genealogy journey​.
Speaker's Bio:
Karen has been creating and managing genealogy websites since 2015, and she took over the role of Web Manager for VGSFL in January 2021. Her professional background includes positions in advertising, marketing, trade show management, and human resources. Orignally from the East Coast, in the mid-1980’s she took a job transfer to the Silicon Valley area in California where she spent a number of years working in the high tech industries. Karen got bit by the “genealogy bug” about 12 years ago and is currently knee-deep in researching her Irish and German ancestry.
To attend this Zoom only meeting: please register in advance by clicking HERE.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Tuesday, August 1
Adoption & Missing Kin Special Interest Group Meeting (Adoption & Missing Kin SIG)
10:00 am to 11:20 am Online ZOOM Meeting
Coordinators: Marcella Zorn & Bill Canavan
SIG members will receive an e-mail with the Zoom link.
Others please contact the coordinator, through the SIG web page, for the link to this meeting |
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Monday, August 7
Diaries, Journals & Calendars (VGS Live Webinar)
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm LIVE WEBINAR
Guest Speaker: Melissa Barker
Topic: Diaries, Journals and Calendars: Preserving & Documenting Your Ancestor's Day-to-Day Life
Many of our ancestors recorded their day-to-day lives in diaries, journals and calendars. Learn how to extract all the wonderful genealogical and historical information contained in these sources and how to physically preserve them for the next generation..
Presenter Info: Melissa Barker, also known as The Archive Lady, is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currenlty working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She lectures, teaches and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives, and records preservation. She conducts virtual webinar presentations across the U.S. for genealogical and historical societies. She writes a history pieces column (From the Archives)for her local newspaper The Houston County Herald, and is a well known book Reviews Editor for the FGS Magazine Forum.
Click HERE to register in advance to attend this webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Monday, August 21
Best Practices SIG Meeting (Best Practices SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Online Zoom Meeting
Coordinators: Annette Burke-Lyttle & Pat Adams
Topic: Understanding Source Citations
The SIG accepts new members throughout the year, but those who join after January 2023 should be prepared to catch up on the chapters that have already been studied. Visit our SIG webpage for more details.
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Wednesday, August 23
VGS General Monthly Meeting (VGS Monthly Meeting)
10:00 am to 12:45 pm ZOOM Meeting Only (Savannah Center IS NOT AVAILABLE.)
Guest Speaker: Chris Paton
1st Presentation: Genealogy Without Borders
As family historians, we can be tempted to try to tell the stories of our ancestors solely from the resources in the areas where they once lived, overlooking an important part of our ancestral stories which is the plight of those family members who left our shores. As part of a wider worldwide diaspora, Chris will show how many emigrant family membeers provided him with clues to their stories overseas, often with records that plugged the missing gaps in research for family members back home.
2nd Presentation: British and Irish Newspapers
Records of births, marriages and deaths provide a fantastic starting point for identifying our ancestors' names and where they lived, but in terms of trying to uderstand how those ancestors once lived, there is no better resource to plunder than a good newspaper. Over the last two centuries in particular, newspapers have recorded the daily events that have shaped our forebears' lives, and in many cases have identified specific tales about them, as well as notices and advertisements directly concerning them and their contemporary communities.
Speaker's Bio:
Chris Paton is a genealogist and writer based in Ayrshire, Scotland, where he runs the Scotland's Greatest Story research service at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk. As well as contributing to many of the UK's best-known family history magazines, he also writes for his own Scottish GENES news blog at www.scottishgenes.blogspot.com, and regularly gives talks to family history societies across the UK and worldwide.
To attend this Zoom only meeting: please register in advance by clicking HERE.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Monday, August 28
FTM SIG Meeting (Family Tree Maker SIG)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ZOOM MEETING
REGULAR MOTHLY MEETING
SIG Coordinators: Karen Feeney & Bob Boerst
(Meeting link will be emailed to SIG members approximately 5 days prior to meeting date.)
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