West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: January 4, 2014 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Charlene Grafton Topic: What’s In Your Genes? Human Disease Traits Charlene Grafton, local medical writer and retired Nurse Case Manager, is the author of What’s In Your Genes: Human Threads Linking Genetics and Genealogy, based on her own experience with reaction to a prescribed drug. Her talk is presented in response to the increasing interest of the public in DNA and genealogy. Members and guests are welcome. Refreshments will be available beginning at 9:30 AM Contact Charlotte Schipman 850-477-7166 cschipman@mac.com
If you are planning to attend the seminar and have not registered, please do so at once. You may register at the door, but it will surely facilitate matters concerning food for snacks and breaks and handouts to know how many to expect. WFGS Fall Seminar - Megan Smolenyak Date: November 9, 2013 Place: Washington High School Auditorium, 6000 College Parkway, Pensacola, FL Time: Registration - 8:00-9:00 AM Seminar 9:00 AM-4:00 PM Speaker: Megan Smolenyak - Popular genealogist, speaker and author of six books. For more information, visit the WFGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/ Click on 2013 Calendar. Scroll down to Nov. 9 for speaker's topics, map & directions and registration form. You may have lunch at one of the many nearby restaurants or bring your own. Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: October 5, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Margo Stringfield Topic: St. Michael's Cemetery : Crossroads of Pensacola's past from Spanish times to today. Mrs. Stringfield is a research archaeologist at UWF with a special interest in the history and archaeology of Colonial West Florida. She is the principal archaeologist for historic St. Michael's Cemetery and the author of /Historic Pensacola/ published in 2009. Contact Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: September 7, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Jerry Merritt Topic: Autosomal DNA The speaker will use PowerPoint to cover the vast differences in using autosomal DNA vs. Y or mtDNA. He will also show an amazing use of the X chromosome in tracing ancestry, since the X chromosome doesn't pass down to us the way autosomal, Y and mtDNA do. He will cover one of the popular sites for autosomal matching - "23AndMe." He will cover how to tell whether autosomal DNA testing will help in genealogical research or whether it would be a waste of time at its current state of development. He will introduce GEDMatch, a free site where one can upload one's 23AndMe or FamilyTree DNA results for special testing and for matching across several DNA sites. Some of the material he willcover won't be found anywhere else. ------------------------- Don't forget to register for the Megan Smolenyak Seminar. Contact Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net <mailto:cgdean@bellsouth.net>
WFGS Fall Seminar - Megan Smolenyak Date: November 9, 2013 Place: Washington High School Auditorium, 6000 College Parkway, Pensacola, FL Time: Registration - 8:00-9:00 AM Seminar 9:00 AM-4:00 PM Speaker: Megan Smolenyak - Popular genealogist, speaker and author of six books. Google her name for lots of background. For more information, visit the WFGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/ Click on 2013 Calendar. Scroll down to Nov. 9 for speaker's topics, map & directions and registration form.
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: August 3, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Doug Bell Topic: Will or No Will: Genealogy, Probate and Death Records This program introduces probate records and various sources of death records, where to find them and how to use them to extend family lines. Some of the legal process of probate will be dealt with and the many different legal records created by the probate process both with and without a will. Doug Bell has been a genealogist for over 30 years, specializing in Southern genealogy and land records. His numerous speaking engagement topics have included land, probate, census and military records of the Colonial South. Contact Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net <mailto:cgdean@bellsouth.net> P.S. Don't forget the Megan Smolenyak Seminar Nov. 6. Register early.
WFGS Fall Seminar - Megan Smolenyak Date: November 9, 2013 Place: Washington High School Auditorium, 6000 College Parkway, Pensacola, FL Time: Registration - 8:00-9:00 AM Seminar 9:00 AM-4:00 PM Speaker: Megan Smolenyak - Popular genealogist, speaker and author of six books. Google her name for lots of background. For more information, visit the WFGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfgs/ Click on 2013 Calendar. Scroll down to Nov. 9 for speaker's topics, map & directions and registration form. Pre-register by October 20.
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: June 1, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Bruce Rover Topic: Family Tree Maker 2012 Bruce Rover, former WFGS president, will demonstrate use of 2012 Family Tree Maker program, including entering data, photos, syncing data to your Ancestry.com site, generating various family pedigree charts and listing references, among other things. Contact Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: May 4, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM - Meeting. Speaker: Dean DeBolt Topic: "What's Old (New) at UWF?" Dean DeBolt, University Librarian/Archivist at the The University of West Florida,will highlight some of their collections and how to use the archives. The collections consist of rare books, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, newspapers, computer and digital files, family and business papers, and other materials concerning the people and history of West Florida and is the largest research collection about the Gulf Coast in existence. Contact: Cynthia G. Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net ------------------ Additional info about the speaker: Dean is a historian of the Florida Chautauqua (DeFuniak Springs) and has lectured at the New York Chautauqua, the Lakeside Chautauqua (Ohio), and the Monteagle Assembly (Tennessee).His writings on the Florida Chautuauqua have appeared in the magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, and he has served as a Humanities Scholar, lecturing on the Chautauqua movement at libraries and organizations throughout Florida. Dean has an M.A. in History from the University of Illinois (Springfield) and a M.L.S. from the University of Illinois (Urbana).
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: April 6, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Jeff Neely His presentation will be using Google Earth as a research tool to locate family related historical landmarks (old maps with home sites, cemeteries, district lines, other structures) by overlaying older maps onto current satellite imagery. This overlay technique works for both urban and rural settings, as well as using Google Earth Street View to view current locations. By getting latitude/longitude coordinates, a visit to the sites would be possible. Attendees can download Google Earth to their laptops, and a map of interest to their desktops, and follow along during presentation. Jeff's background: He is a retired Marine Corps helicopter pilot, BS degree in geography, Master’s degree in computer resource management. He has a computer programming background, as Webmaster for 3^rd Marine Aircraft Wing during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Contact: Cynthia G. Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: March 2, 2013 - Saturday Place: West Florida Genealogy Library. 5740 N. 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL. 850-494-7373 Time: 10:00 AM - Meeting. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Members and guests are invited to get help in the library with personal research. Bring Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets or names and dates on a piece of paper of persons to be researched. Seasoned genealogists will be on site to assist. Contact: Cynthia G. Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net More detail: Look through the diverse collections: Family Map books for many U.S. counties, also a seven volume series on Immigrants to New England. Plus a six volume set Directory of Virginia Landowners in 1815 and a complete set of Virginia Soldiers 1776. Browse the military collection: four shelves of Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary military books, with twelve shelves of volumes on the Civil War: 3 shelves of Union and 9 of Confederate. For the individual states, there are 14 shelves of books related to Virginia families, including individual counties and the 1787 census (three volume set). Georgia occupies 22 shelves; Alabama 23. South Carolina overflows with information: land transactions, marriage records, court records; the Leon Hollingsworth collection. He was a certified genealogist who spent over thirty years travelling the southeast, recording genealogical data on cards. We have the complete 12 reel microfilm collection of his records. On a far back wall, 24 shelves of Family History books, plus DAR, Colonial Dames and SAR books.
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Feb. 2, 2013 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place by Cokesbury Methodist Church 5725 N. 9th Ave., Pensacola, FL Time: 10:00 AM A special program for Black History Month: Sponsored by the West Florida Genealogical Society, outstanding speaker Jerry Merritt will present a Power Point presentation on the similarities and differences in African American and European genealogy and examples of successful African American family histories completed by volunteers at the genealogy library. The similarities between African American and European research techniques are surprising and the differences quite minor when looked at in detail. Even if one has no African ancestors, this presentation will hold techniques that he will find immensely helpful in doing pre-1850 European research. After the Power Point presentation, those interested in tracing their ancestry will go to the genealogy library across the street for individual assistance researching. Contact Cynthia Dean 432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
Not a problem. I noticed it on the Bay discussion list, and thought if it was local, I'd attend. I was just trying to figure out where College Blvd. was in Panama City. LOL I'll try to get to one of the meetings in Pensacola sometime. In a message dated 1/3/2013 8:18:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, cgdean@bellsouth.net writes: Yes, it is in Pensacola. Sorry I didn't say that. I should have, but the regulars who usually get the email know. Thanks for the tip. I'll remember that. Cynthia Is this being held in Pensacola? In a message dated 1/2/2013 5:30:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, cgdean@bellsouth.net writes: West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Jan. 5, 2013 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place, 5725 N. 9th Ave, corner of College Blvd. Time: 10:00 AM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLBAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Cindy, I forgot to mention that I recently added the Bay County list to my regular monthly announcements after someone over there suggested that folks might travel that far for a program in which they were especially interested. I used to only send notices to Bay about special seminars. Cynthia
Yes, it is in Pensacola. Sorry I didn't say that. I should have, but the regulars who usually get the email know. Thanks for the tip. I'll remember that. Cynthia Is this being held in Pensacola? In a message dated 1/2/2013 5:30:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, cgdean@bellsouth.net writes: West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Jan. 5, 2013 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place, 5725 N. 9th Ave, corner of College Blvd. Time: 10:00 AM
Is this being held in Pensacola? In a message dated 1/2/2013 5:30:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, cgdean@bellsouth.net writes: West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Jan. 5, 2013 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place, 5725 N. 9th Ave, corner of College Blvd. Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Bruce Rova Topic: "Who's That Lady," strategies and resources to identify women's maiden names and parents. Contact: Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net Bruce Rova will address a topic that some of our members have requested – that is, what are some good strategies and resources that can help identify maiden surnames, parents, and other information for women in our family trees where we only know a married name. He will share practical examples of a myriad of means he has used successfully in his research – reviewing both finding direct sources and, especially, gathering and using clues from _indirect_ sources to reveal new information and resolve such problems. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLBAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Jan. 5, 2013 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place, 5725 N. 9th Ave, corner of College Blvd. Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Bruce Rova Topic: "Who's That Lady," strategies and resources to identify women's maiden names and parents. Contact: Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net Bruce Rova will address a topic that some of our members have requested – that is, what are some good strategies and resources that can help identify maiden surnames, parents, and other information for women in our family trees where we only know a married name. He will share practical examples of a myriad of means he has used successfully in his research – reviewing both finding direct sources and, especially, gathering and using clues from _indirect_ sources to reveal new information and resolve such problems.
West Florida Genealogical Society Meeting Date: Dec. 1, 2012 - Saturday Place: Asbury Place, 5725 N. 9th Ave, corner of College Blvd. Time: 10:00 AM Speaker: Bert Blackmon Topic: Military Records as they relate to genealogy and how to find them. 1. Where to look on the Internet 2. Where to write 3. The great fire and other brick walls 4. National Cemeteries are records too 5. Pensions, final payments, widows, etc 5. Kinship, items to include, etc. 6. Misc. Small related topics Contact: Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072cgdean@bellsouth.net
West Florida Genealogical Society In lieu of the cancelled seminar Date: Sat., Nov. 3, 2012 Place: Asbury Place, 5725 North 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL Time: 10:00 AM Betty Sparks will present a hands-on workshop on Identifying Old Photos, covering Hair Styles, Bonnets, Civil War, Photos 1840-1929 and different types of photos, such as cards, etc. She will bring five wonderful books she got from suggestions of one of our recent speakers, Cheryl Nugent. Bring your own photos to be identified. Treasurer Maurice Johnson will be available to give refunds for the cancelled seminar. Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net
The West Florida Genealogical Society regrets that Megan Smolenyak has cancelled her appearance in Pensacola on Nov. 3 due to the fact that she is in the Philadelphia area and in the path of the impending storm, "Sandy." We are very sorry but feel it is the prudent thing to do. All those who have already registered will be refunded or their checks returned. You will be contacted, soon. Mrs. Smolenyak suggested shemight be able to come in February, 2013, but we will have to start all over with plans. There will not be a meeting in November. If you have questions, let us know. Cynthia Dean 850-432-7072 cgdean@bellsouth.net