The Angelina County Genealogical Society will meet for its regular monthly meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, July 16, 2007, in the community room of Kurth Memorial Library, 706 South Raguet Street, Lufkin, Texas. The program will be presented by Dyson Nickle on the Civil War in East Texas and the Angelina County area. Mr. Nickle has recently completed his masters degree in History at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches where he currently works in the Acacdemic Advising Center. Mr. Nickle has taught history in East Texas area schools in recent years and has been extremely active in Civil War reinactment events on several levels. The society will have a book table and staff a free genealogy research help desk during the Angelina College Genealogy Conference Friday and Saturday, July 20th and 20th. The society will be using Room 101 (Computer Lab)in the Community Services Building. A sign up sheet will be provided at the meeting for members who will be available to volunteer at the society's room at the conference. Flora Pearson is book chairman. Coonference registration is NOT required to visit the book dealers in the vendor area. The society officers for the calendar year 2007 are Vivian Cates-President, Fred Preston-Vice-President, June Moffett-Treasurer, and Anita Crona-secretary. An executive board meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the library prior to the regular society meeting at 5 p.m. All officers and standing committee chairmen are urged to attend. Future society book projects and other projects will be discussed. Items/articles are needed for the Fall ACGS Newsletter. Ellen Pyle is the society newsletter editor. Her phone number and mailing address are listed under Ben M. Pyle in the Lufkin Telephone Directory though she lives near Apple Springs in Trinity County. The fall newsletter will published about October. All items having an Angelina County, Texas, connection or of general interest to genealogy researchers will be considered. Please consider writing a paragraph or two about one or more of your Angelina County, Texas, ancestors for the society newsletter. Contact Ellen or send items by regular mail to the society at Post Office Box 150631, Lufkin, Texas 75915 or leave them at the desk in the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room in the Kurth Memorial Library. Queries about Angelina County people and Angelina County topics are especially requested. Of course query preference will be given to society members and then to non-members on a space available basis. More information about the society is on the society's web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txacgs including a list of society publications. Contact the society by mail at P. O. Box 150631, Lufkin, Texas 75915-0631. Leave a message in the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room at Kurth Memorial Library at 1-936-630-0563. E-mail a message to txacgs@inu.net. It will be answered or be forwarded to the appropriate contact. Dues for the 2007 calendar year were past due in March, but will be accepted any time during the year for that calendar year. Dues amounts are posted on the web page. Of course new society members are always welcome any time of the year. Vivian Cates, 2007 President ACGS