Understanding Legal Terms in Documents Subject for ETGS The East Texas Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting on Saturday, January 10, at 2:00 p.m. at the Tyler Public Library in the Taylor Auditorium. The featured speaker will be Michael J. Vaughn, a retired attorney, who has been engaged in genealogical research for 53 years. The title of his program will be “Legal Arcana for Genealogists (Who Said That Latin is a Dead Language.). Genealogists face the problem of encountering words in original records that are dated or obsolete, including legal terms in both English and Latin – French in some places, and even words not obsolete that are not used in everyday conversation. A researcher cannot really understand a document without understanding what the author of the document was trying to accomplish by the use of the terms in the document. The program is intended as a primer of legal terms that genealogists encounter in their research. Attendees will be given a handout of eleven pages of legal term descriptions to use in their research . Approximately thirty minutes following the conclusion of the regular program and refreshments, the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Tyler Jr. College Director of Distance Education Ken Craver will present a program titled “Understanding Adobe Acrobat Documents.” ETGS meetings are free and open to the public. For more information about ETGS go to our web-site: www.etgs.org or contact June Everheart, Publicity Director at 1stvp@etgs.org or (903)877-4501.