I am working on the revision of the Getting to Know You Book. Plan to have it ready for the August 6 meeting. If you haven't sent in your form, please do so immediately. You may mail it ASAP to Cynthia Dean 4060 Rommitch Ln Pensacola, FL 32504 or email it to cgdean@bellsouth.net If you need a form, write me at cgdean@bellsouth.net Cynthia

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Check out the August 6th meeting listed on the updated 2011 calendar at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/calendar2011.htm Meeting and program open to everyone.

Thanks for saying so!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "L. L. Scott" <llscott2000@bellsouth.net> To: "FLWFGS" <fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:32 PM Subject: [FL-WFGS] WOW >I have just received an email from Croatia. > A gentleman is researching a man naturalized in Escambia County. > Many thanks for putting this page up. I knew it was in the works, but don’t > remember hearing it came to be. > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/escambiacountyfl/naturalization/naturalizations1853-1906.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have just received an email from Croatia. A gentleman is researching a man naturalized in Escambia County. Many thanks for putting this page up. I knew it was in the works, but don’t remember hearing it came to be. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/escambiacountyfl/naturalization/naturalizations1853-1906.htm

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There are extra copies of Footprints at the book table. Should be able to pick one up next month! > Bonnie, do you know if there are any more copies of the last( 2010) > copy of Footprints? I loaned mine out and > the man died and widow can't find it. Suzanne > >

On 7/3/2011 4:20 PM, Bonnie Griffis Lewis wrote: > We are proud to announce that the Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. web site sponsored by the West FL Genealogical Society (WFGS) has been updated with an index of the 2009 obituaries listed in the Pensacola News Journal. The contributors are Carolyn and Curtis Reedy, who also maintain the hard copies of the obituaries. An e-mail request and a hearty thank you is all these hard-working volunteers require to provide you with a copy of an obituary by return e-mail. As we speak, they are working on the 2010 obituaries. You may think that current obituaries are of no use to researchers, but the requests for current obituaries has been quite brisk, because, as you know, we start our research with current family and work backwards. I had to think about that for a while before I truly recognized the absolute beauty of having easy access to current and relatively current obituaries! Carolyn and Curtis make a terrific team and their dedication to this effort is phenomenal! Thank you a! ga! > in, Carolyn and Curtis Reedy!!! > > Visiting the Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. web site index at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/escambiacountyfl/index.htm should prove to be an exciting venture in researching your ancestors of the area. To find the brand new 2009 index of obituaries, page down the index to "Vitals, and then Obituaries." Or, simply use the FreeFind search function if you wish. FreeFind search engines will have already indexed the names contained in the new 2009 file by the time you receive this e-mail, plus every single name in the 460 plus pages of this web site. > > Please consider submitting your research of the West Florida area so that others may benefit from it. > > Bonnie > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Bonnie Griffis Lewis > Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. Coordinator& Webmaster > West Florida Genealogical Society (WFGS) Webmaster > WFGS Editor, West Florida Footprints, 2011 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Bonnie, do you know if there are any more copies of the last( 2010) copy of Footprints? I loaned mine out and the man died and widow can't find it. Suzanne

UpFront with NGS From: UpFront with NGS Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:11 PM To: llscott2000@bellsouth.net Subject: UpFront with NGS UpFront with NGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Digital Preservation -- Make Sure Your "Digital" Memories Are Not Lost! Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT  With so much of our genealogy research now digital, oo you know how to preserve all this material stored/saved in these “newer” formats? If not, the Personal Archives: Preserving Your Digital Memories (part of the Digital Preservation section of the Library of Congress website) is a website you will want to check out. “Our photo albums, letters, home movies and paper documents are a vital link to the past. Personal information we create today has the same value. The only difference is that much of it is now digital. Chances are that you want to keep some digital photos, e-mail, and other files so that you—and your family—can look at them in the future. But preserving digital information is a new concept that most people have little experience with.” To get a head start on making sure your digital archives will stand the test of time, check out this brochure Preserving Your Digital Memories. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ copyright © National Genealogical Society, 3108 Columbia Pike, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia 22204-4370. http://www.ngsgenealogy.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Republication of UpFront articles is permitted and encouraged for non-commercial purposes without express permission from NGS. Please drop us a note telling us where and when you are using the article. Express written permission is required if you wish to republish UpFront articles for commercial purposes. You may send a request for express written permission to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org. All republished articles may not be edited or reworded and must contain the copyright statement found at the bottom of each UpFront article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Follow NGS via Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Think your friends, colleagues, or fellow genealogy researchers would find this blog post interesting? If so, please let them know that anyone can read past UpFront with NGS posts or subscribe! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suggestions for topics for future UpFront with NGS posts are always welcome. Please send any suggested topics to UpfrontNGS@mosaicrpm.com. You are subscribed to email updates from UpFront with NGS To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610

We are proud to announce that the Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. web site sponsored by the West FL Genealogical Society (WFGS) has been updated with an index of the 2009 obituaries listed in the Pensacola News Journal. The contributors are Carolyn and Curtis Reedy, who also maintain the hard copies of the obituaries. An e-mail request and a hearty thank you is all these hard-working volunteers require to provide you with a copy of an obituary by return e-mail. As we speak, they are working on the 2010 obituaries. You may think that current obituaries are of no use to researchers, but the requests for current obituaries has been quite brisk, because, as you know, we start our research with current family and work backwards. I had to think about that for a while before I truly recognized the absolute beauty of having easy access to current and relatively current obituaries! Carolyn and Curtis make a terrific team and their dedication to this effort is phenomenal! Thank you again, Carolyn and Curtis Reedy!!! Visiting the Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. web site index at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/escambiacountyfl/index.htm should prove to be an exciting venture in researching your ancestors of the area. To find the brand new 2009 index of obituaries, page down the index to "Vitals, and then Obituaries." Or, simply use the FreeFind search function if you wish. FreeFind search engines will have already indexed the names contained in the new 2009 file by the time you receive this e-mail, plus every single name in the 460 plus pages of this web site. Please consider submitting your research of the West Florida area so that others may benefit from it. Bonnie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonnie Griffis Lewis Escambia County FLGenWeb, Inc. Coordinator & Webmaster West Florida Genealogical Society (WFGS) Webmaster WFGS Editor, West Florida Footprints, 2011

Never in July Evelyn. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:15 PM, EVELYN M BLACK <evelynmblack@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Are we having a FLWFGS meeting this Saturday????? Please advise. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The newsletter arrived yesterday and no, there is no July meeting. Dean On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:15 PM, EVELYN M BLACK <evelynmblack@bellsouth.net > wrote: > Are we having a FLWFGS meeting this Saturday????? Please advise. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213

Ancestry.com Releases the Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 in Honor of the 4th of July The following announcement was written by Ancestry.com: New Collection to Help Families Discover Connections to American Freedom Fighters Is Available FREE From June 30 - July 4 PROVO, UTAH, Jun 30, 2011 -- In honor of Independence Day, Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, today launched the Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, a collection of more than one million applications from men with a direct link to either a supporter or participant in the fight for United States independence during the 18th century. Like its well-known sister organization, The Daughters of the American Revolution, also available through Ancestry.com, the Sons of the American Revolution applications contain precious handwritten historical information that can take a family back through two centuries of history in a single document. The applications contain references to Revolutionary War pension files, documented family and local histories, family Bible records, deeds, court documents, census records and typically include a short summary of the ancestor's service. In celebration of America's Independence, Ancestry.com invites the public to discover proof of their own link to the founders of freedom by searching in the Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 for free during a long weekend of access, Thursday, June 30th through Monday, July 4th. To begin searching users can visit www.ancestry.com/Independence. Nearly 165,000 members of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) can trace their family tree back to an ancestor who supported the cause of U.S. Independence during the years 1774-1783. Founded in April 1889, the Sons of the American Revolution seeks to honor the people and events of the American Revolution, and inspire the community with the principles on which our nation was founded. Its members include 16 former U.S. Presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman as well as famous generals like Douglas MacArthur and John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, and even notable world figures like Sir Winston Churchill and Juan Carlos I, King of Spain. The collection sheds light on the family histories of famous world figures, including: Gen. Douglas MacArthur - His SAR application was accepted by the committee just six days before he officially accepted Japan's surrender at the conclusion of World War II. The legendary military hero has roots in the Revolutionary War through John Barney, who was a private in the Massachusetts Militia. Sir Winston Churchill - Known for his leadership in WWII, and as the only British Prime Minister to have received a Nobel Prize in Literature, the collection contains Churchill's application to the Sons of the American Revolution. Churchill claimed Revolutionary War roots through his New York-born mother's family, citing his ancestor, Lieutenant Reuben Murray of the New York Militia. Theodore Roosevelt - Just two years before Roosevelt became the 25th President of the United States, he applied for membership with the Sons of the American Revolution. The application proved his relation to Jacobus (James) I. Roosevelt, who acted as commissary for the New York troops and was remembered as being "always understood and accepted in the family. He gave his services without pay or reward." Harry S. Truman - Truman's application was accepted five years before his death in 1972. The record not only includes the relation to his Revolutionary War ancestor, but the names of his grandchildren as well. Truman's revolutionary ancestor, James Holmes, served as an Ensign for the Virginia State Regiment. The Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 provides a valuable resource for anyone trying to trace their ancestors back to the time of American independence. All applications required a pedigree and accompanying information to demonstrate a generation-by-generation link to a patriot ancestor. Over one million application records make it even easier to discover family members who might have been veterans of the Revolutionary War, members of Continental Congress or even signers of the Declaration of Independence. Starting a family history research project can be as simple as entering a name into Ancestry.com, allowing the powerful search technology to comb through millions of records and help uncover facts to develop family stories To begin searching The Sons of the American Revolution Applications, visit www.ancestry.com/Independence. You can also follow Ancestry.com on Facebook and Twitter for further stories and updates related to family history research.

Are we having a FLWFGS meeting this Saturday????? Please advise.

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