The Harrison County Genealogical Society held their regular monthly meeting this date with the new president, Ted Wolfe, presiding. There were 12 persons in attendance and one of them became a new member. It was also good to see John Nuzum, vice president. Betty Waugh did take the scholarship applications to each of the high schools and Dick Wilt wrote up the article for the newspaper and it has already been in the paper. Diana Johnson has been checking with some of the festivals which are held in the area and we voted to see about attending three of them. The Scottish Heritage Festival is held in Bridgeport, WV on April 30-May 2nd, the Black Heritage Festival is held in September and the Apple Butter Festival is held in Salem, WV sometime in October. We would like to participate in all three of them and we do have volunteers to work them. Diana Johnson, Betty Waugh, Dick Wilt, Darla Everly and Bertha Webb. If anyone else would like to help, please contact Diana Johnson. David Houchin, librarian, has been getting some of our publications reprinted and in the Simpson District Cemetery book pages 312-315 are missing and he will make copies of them for the books as they are being sold. He is also going over the list of material that Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants have for sale to see if we need any of their publications. We also received the book from Ethel Nielsen, on the Ash-Davis-and Hammond lines. June Conrad said she will need volunteers to help read the scholarship genealogies and the following committee was set up: Betty Waugh, June Conrad, David Houchin and Ted Wolfe. They will meet in early May. There was a discussion about giving out more scholarships, which we can't do this year and one thing that was mentioned, might be to take the profits from one of our publications and set it aside for scholarships. The applications for the scholarships needs to be postmarked by the 15th of April. A person is wanting to donate an old family Bible to the society which belonged to the West family. David said he could copy the births, marriages and death records for the files and then store the Bible. Betty Waugh said there will be a memorial service for Darrell on the 23rd of May at 2:00 p.m. at the Heavener Cemetery in Buckhannon to inter his ashes. Bertha Webb was wondering how people could remove persons buried in the Point Pleasant Cemetery from a list when they are buried in the cemetery and have a stone. They aren't planning on removing the bodies from the cemetery, just removing them from a list. Diana Johnson said that the March newsletter is almost assembled but she is going to hold off sending it out until the end of the month, that way more people will have an opportunity to renew their memberships, if they wish to do so. Dick Wilt took a group picture today and it should be on the webpage. I hope I haven't missed anything as we had a very productive meeting today. Ruby Casto Membership Chairman of HCGS