June's Class: Medical Terminology, Plagues and Dental History

Medical Terminology, Plagues and Dental History

Do you want to know more about how your ancestors died? What are the causes of death in your ancestor's obituaries? Perhaps our guest speaker, Dr. James Davis Jr will be able to enlighten you. June 3rd from 3 to 5 like usual.
There will also be time for research and discussion.

Dr. Davis practices Maxillofacial Prosthodontics in Tucker Ga. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  This talk will cover outdated medical terminology, diseases of various eras and Dentistry's role in the development of civilizations.

Heads up:
July's class (on the 8th) will be all about equipment and software. Do you have a scanner and have no idea how to use it? Do you have questions about Windows or other software. Do you want to discuss genealogy software? Hopefully we can help each other out!
August 5th: Research workshop. Bring your stuff, bring your laptop and use the library's resources to research your ancestory. Are you up against a brick wall? Perhaps we can help. It will be study/research time.

May's class: Google Earth?

May's class: Google Earth! On Sunday May 6th from 3 - 5 like usual.
We will be discussing the book "The Genealogist's Google Toolbox" by Lisa Louise Cooke  again, and her pod casts. How can we make a Google Map of our ancestors? Why would we want to anyway?
There will be time for discussion towards the end of our meeting.

Please also take a look at Selma's blog. The link is right on this page over to the right ------->
The Jonesboro Family History Center is having a genealogy event April 27-28th.

Here is our group! Look how we have grown. There are almost as many people in April's class, as in our big annual workshop in January. Wow!

April 1 2012 Class: Explorin' Google - the genealogist's way-

Our next class will be on April 1 2012. We will be discussing the following books: "The Genealogist's Google Toolbox" by Lisa Louise Cooke and "Google Your Family Tree, Unlock the Hidden Power of Google" by Daniel M Lynch.
I have been flippin' through these books and learning all kinds of tricks to help narrow down my genealogy searches and I am going to share the tricks with you. Some of the other things we will talk about are: Google Alerts, creating a genealogy research dashboard, google books, google news timeline, google translation and more!
May's class will be on Google Earth! The things we learn in April, should help us create a google map of our ancestors.

In other news:
1.Please give out some business cards to people you meet that may be interested in our group.
2.Are there any classes you would like to lead? Does any one want to do a class on Native American research? I don't know anything about it, do any of you? Does any one want to lead a class on over seas research. Any other ideas?
3. I was thinking, for future class announcements, that I would simply post here and send an email to remind you to check the blog. How do you feel about that?
4. By the way, the complete list of Rosemary's books that are available for us to use is at the very bottom of this blog.

March 4th Meeting: African American Genealogy research

It is almost time for our next meeting. We will have a new member leading the group. We will have a brief vote on the next few class topics AND I made our group some business cards! They look really nice. There are plenty so that we can all take a bunch of them and hand them out when we are talking to people we think would like to join us.

Our next Genealogy Meeting will be March 4th. Our class will be on African-American Genealogy. A new member, Shirlen Baldwin will be leading the discussion. Below are her notes on what we will be hearing about. I look forward to seeing you all on the 4th. Bring a friend or two!

 1.I will start with how to gather your information,talk to people, look for clues {pictures, obituaries,church records,etc..}, starting up your Pedigree chart, Family sheet.

2. What's the difference between regular Genealogy & African-American Genealogy- Regular Genealogy {You can find the records a little faster } "VS" African- American Genealogy- You have to look at { Probate records,Deeds,Freedman's Bureau Records, Apprenticeship & Orphans Records, Tax records, Chancery Court Records,Plantation Records*if you're lucky to find some*, The 1850 &1860 Federal Mortality Census, The 1850- 1860 Slave Schedules (they list the Slave Owners name & how many Slaves that person had and the ages of the Slave (No Names of the Slave), Rental Transactions AKA "Rent a Slave" , And other Slave Owners could have been Indians.

 

3. The Value of knowing History:I tell people know your history in order to know what you're looking for.

Example:Emancipation Time Line: begin in 1777 Vermont- Ended in June 19,1865 (Texas). What happen in between the 1st date & the last date? What States Prohibited Slavery, Know about the Military Wars (Black fought in wars) Buffalo Soldiers (Indian Wars), Philippine Insurrection (1898), Spanish American War(1899-1901), Mexican Border Disputes (1905-1907), & World War I (1917-1918) Check the Draft Records.

4. And my mistakes. Looking up the wrong family, jumping to conclusions, skipping generations, ect..

 

 

One of our members were featured in the Clayton News Daily. Check out the article.

http://www.news-daily.com/news/2012/feb/01/clayton-dar-recognizes-2012-good-citizens/

 

I want to thank everyone who braved the bad weather and joined us for the 2nd annual Work Shop and Research Day on January 21st. Despite some early technical problems, we had a blast. Can you believe we had 38 people researching with us! There were a lot of new faces. Not only did some people come from the north side of the Perimeter, but we had folks from Alabama and Tennessee!

We appreciate all the feedback and the wonderful comments you left us on your evaluation forms. I am excited to plan some new classes for us this coming year.

Here are a few important announcements:

1. Due to the workshop being so late in January, we are NOT having a meeting in February.

2. The plan is to have March's meeting to be about African American Research tips and strategies. I post more information on March's class after I get it finalized.

April's meeting will be about using Google for research. "Unlock the hidden power of Google" We are going to learn how to Google Map your ancestors!!

3. The blog, ourgenealogygroup.blogspot.com has a new feature. You can enter your email on the site, you will then be notified when I make a post. FYI: Don't worry! I only post 1 or 2 times a month, so you won't be getting too many emails. If you do this, let me know and I will take you off the email list, so that you don't get double emails!

4. I have just updated the email list and contacts on the gmail account ourgenealogygroup@gmail.com If you would like to "unsubscribe" to our email list please let me know by responding to this post. Some of our members have more than one account on file, and we have some couples who have both their emails listed. So, if you need one or all of your email's removed please "reply". When I updated the email list, I may have added back in some people who have already asked me to remove them. Sorry! Again, just reply and let me know and I will take you back off.

5. As you know Rosemary has about 150 books about Genealogy in her office that we are able to use. I will have the complete list on the blog ASAP.

Research & Workshop Day January 21 2012

Our Genealogy Group will have a research and workshop day on January 21 2012. Please join us from 9:30 to 4:30 in room L200 at Clayton State University Library. Please enter through the courtyard.  We will have several speakers and plenty of research time. Bring your laptop, or paper files, and anything you need scanned. We will have experienced enthusiasts there to help you research and get organized. Ancestry Library edition will be free to use.
We will be discussing family group sheets, pedigree charts and how to use citations. We will learn what you should bring when you are researching away from home and new ideas on how to collect information at a family reunion. Learn organizing tips for your paper and digital files and photographs. Plus creative ideas on sharing family history. We will be giving out Door Prises too!

The workshop is free. Bring your own lunch or a dish to share at our potluck lunch. Vending machines will also be available.

Learn more at http://ourgenealogygroup.blogspot.com
For questions and to RSVP contact Angela Pendleton at ourgenalogygroup@gmail.com
or  call 678-386-3490.
Rosemary Fischer, Clayton State University Archivist rosemaryfischer@gmail.com

January meeting on the 21st

Happy Holidays Everybody,

Our next meeting will be at a different date than usual. To give us some time to recuperate after the holidays, we will have our next meeting on January 21 2012. It will be in the usual location from 9:30 to 4:30. It will be an all day genealogy event, with lots of research time and hopefully some guest speakers.

Please be on the look out for the formal invitiation in a few weeks.

Happy Holidays! See you in January.

 

Angela Pendleton