Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, January 11, 2003 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Michael Vaughn Program: "Prisons, Asylums and other Custodial Institutions: The Macabre Side of Genealogy" The focus of Mr. Vaughn's program will be on how to find information on ancestors and relatives who were inmates at some kind of governmental custodial institution such as a prison, asylum, state hospital or orphanage. Detailed information will be given on searching court records to find criminal proceedings. State prison records will be identified and techniques for accessing the records will be discussed. There will be some discussion of state hospitals for the blind and deaf, or the insane, including information of all Texas institutions of that sort. Mike will also talk about state orphanages, with a brief mention of other orphanages and the kinds of records they have. Mike Vaughn is an attorney who specialized in real estate transactions and commercial law matters. He has taught various commercial law courses. Mr. Vaughn holds membership in many genealogical groups including Sons of Confederate Veterans, Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy, Jamestowne Society, Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge and ETGS. Some of the books Mr. Vaughn has authored are The History of Cayuga and Cross Roads, Texas; Early Records of Judson Baptist Church, Cayuga, Texas; The Family and Pedigree of William Jefferson Wright; and Cream Peas – Already Shelled: Traditional Cooking of East Texas the Rural South. Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Larry Oliver and Mary Love Berryman will present a program on "The Many Facets of GenWeb" which will explain the difference in the Project and Archives Pages and they will also discuss some of the special projects of the USGenWeb. East Texas Genealogical Society represent six counties which are Anderson, Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rusk and Smith counties. ETGS publishes the East Texas Family Records four times a year and a monthly newsletter The Bulletin. For more information, you may contact me at [email protected] or go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/ Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald, President.