++++++++++++++++++++OUR NEXT MEETING++++++++++++++++++
Monday evening, 4 January 2010 at 6:00 PM
This will be the first meeting of the new Board of Directors. President Henry Harris will present some potential goals.
The program will be a film on genealogical techniques followed by a possible workshop.
Barbara Franz and Courtenay Cross are First Vice President co-chairmen and they will be presenting the program.
Please try to attend to start off the new year with a "bang."
++++++++++++++++++++OUR NOVEMBER MEETING++++++++++++++++++
MONTGOMERY COUNTY GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS PRESENTING
ANOTHER BREAKING THROUGH
YOUR BRICKWALLS
NOVEMBER 9TH
IN THE UPSTAIRS GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY
PROMPTLY
AT 5:30PM
IT IS ALSO ELECTION NIGHT
FOR
OUR 2010-2011
BOARD AND OFFICERS
Slate of Officers for 2010 & 2011
Election to be held at the November 9th Meeting ***
BE SURE TO ATTEND – WE NEED YOUR VOTE!
President Henry Harris
1st V.P. Barbara Franz/ Courtenay Cross
2nd V.P. Marsha Goodwin
3rd V.P. Sandra Harris
Treasurer Robert Wicker
Secretary Dorothy Wicker
Parliamentarian Surcy Peoples
Librarian Suzanne Reese
Herald Editor To be appointed by President
Directors-at-Large Sherry Henderson
Frances Lane
Robin Montgomery
Frances Peoples
A quorum of 20 is necessary to hold the election.
BE SURE TO ATTEND….. YOUR
VOTE IS NEEDED
- - - - - - - - - - - - - OUR OCTOBER MEETING - - - - - -
MONTGOMERY COUNTY GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS PRESENTING
WHEN---- OCTOBER 10th, 2009
WHERE--GROUND FLOOR MEETING ROOM
MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIBRARY
TIME-----9:30 A.M. UNTIL 12:30 P.M.
© 2006 - 2008 Charlie Gardes
(For Intermediate to Advanced Researchers)
Charlie Gardes 14027 Memorial Drive. No. 180
e-Mail: cagardes@gmail.com Houston, TX 77079
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CIVIL WAR...GRANDPA?
INTRODUCTION
The War Between the States, 1861 - 1865 has been, to date, the greatest conflict in our country’s history.
The 1860 U.S. Census shows a free population in what became the Confederate
State of America of over 7.5 million citizens. Of that, only a little over 1 million - less than 15 percent - served in the military. The war impacted the remaining 85 percent of the
southern population - which lived, literally, in a war zone - much like wars
of the twentieth century impacted the citizens of Europe. Many citizens knew the sight of both armies traveling through their area.
If an ancestor lived during times of war genealogists will first turn to military records
on the ancestor hunt. However, there are both large and small record sets, and collections that deal with the interaction of the military and civilians that are often neglected in the quest.
These records can often put “flesh on the bones” of our ancestors, but can also identify new locales for vital record searches, and even provide brief biographical (and therefore genealogical)
information that can never be
found anywhere else, including the Internet.
COMPLETE HANDOUT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF LECTURE.
MEET ME AT THE RACCOON LODGE
Researching in The International Order of Hoo-Hoo
and Other Fraternal Organization Records
© 2007 - 2008 Charlie Gardes
(For Intermediate Researchers)
Charlie Gardes 14027 Memorial Drive, No. 180
e-Mail: cagardes@gmail.com Houston, TX 77079
INTRODUCTION
Was your ancestor an Odd Fellow? Did he wear an apron? Does your pedigree possibly have Elks, Eagles, Woodmen, Hibernians, Redmen, Owls, Monkees, or Big Dogs in it? Was great-grandma married to a
Hoo-hoo?
Fraternal organizations in America were at their zenith in the first half of the twentieth century, but their existence had been established long before Independence. George Washington was a Free
Mason for twenty-four years by 1776. Similarly, the first fraternal organization in Texas was chartered when Texas was still ruled by Mexico. America has long been known as a nation of
“joiners” and Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were only two of millions of Americans who
belonged to fraternal organizations since this country's inception. There has been well over two thousand charitable, benevolent, or secret groups
that our ancestors could have joined. Fraternal records can answer some of the
questions we have, but they can also offer much more including solving that decades old research puzzle.
This lecture will discuss the rich history of fraternal groups in America, learning how to identify whether an ancestor belonged to one (or more) groups, which ones, how to find those records, and
what type of content or deep dark secrets those records may hold.
COMPLETE HANDOUT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF LECTURE.
THIS IS A
"FREE SEMINAR"
AND WORTH YOUR TIME AS A STRIVING GENEALOGIST.
SEE YOU THERE!
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