Genealogy Meeting, Thursday May 19, 2005 at 6:30 pm. Our meeting will be on Confederate Ancestors - This class is geared to help researchers locate information and documents often over looked when researching their southern soldiers. Jim Whittington will be dressed in Confederate Uniform as he reinacts history. Our new librarian Mona has some funds to purchase books for the library and needs suggestions on what to purchase. The library has been hesitant to promote and improve the library for genealogy research. I have a meeting with the top lady superintendent of this library to talk about budgets and equipment needed. (example the microfilm reader) doesn't work properly and the other one is in storage on the third floor. Both need a service contract to keep working daily. They are talking about droping Ancestryplus.com and not replacing it. I have an opportunity to present our ideas about the running, equipment, books and how we could both help promoting genealogy in Lafayette. I need your ideas this Thursday night or e-mail me as soon as possible. Books we need: Name of Book, Author, Publisher or where found? Our next meeting will be June 16, 2005 at the Dupree library on Scanning For Genealogy: This classs will teach proper ways to scan and store your genealogical documents and pictures. As well as how to share and send these files to family and friends. By Charles Patterson Earl Gates - President Lafayette Genealogy Society