Ancestral Endeavors A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF LAFAYETTE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY www.nettally.com/lgsla Volume 2004 Issue 3 March 2004 The Minutes of the February 19, 2004 Meeting The regularly scheduled meeting of the Lafayette Genealogical Society was called to order by Acting President at 6:32 p.m. in the conference room of the Lafayette Public Library. We had 23 people in attendance. Two of who became members "Tricia Hunt and Regina English" and one visitor Dana Elow. After a moment of silence, for Ann Booth (who lost both her daughter and son in-law) And for our President Eula who had recently had a set back, when she had a stoke. We were lead in the Pledge of Allegiance. The minutes and treasurer's report were accepted. Program: Our Speaker was Jackie Chote. Jackie is a graduate from UL and presently is the Librarian in Abbeville. Jackie spoke to us about Abbeville's new Library location and the special area set up for genealogist. The new location holds several valuable genealogical books, as well as Louisiana references. And is designed to be quite and separate from the main library. In addition, Jackie mentioned that the library is looking for feed back from genealogist on the genealogical section of the library. They would like to make it a comfortable place for us to do research. So please, if you use the library please let them know about your experience as well as any ideas you may have that will make it a better place to do research. New Business: MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE DUE! If you have not renewed your membership, please contact Warren and take care of this. Our March meeting will be held at the regular schedule time. However, we will not be meeting at the Lafayette Public Library. Instead we will be meeting at the Dupre library at UL. For those interested we will be having a tour of the library and their holdings. And for those who already know the libraries holdings, this time can be set aside for genealogical research. Warren LeBlanc shared with the members that Raine is having a genealogical seminar and we have been asked if we would like a table. The fee is $25.00. If we do this there needs to be volunteers to run the table. Cindy Hofmeister mentioned that local Family History Center had great success with their genealogical conference and that many attendees would like to have another one. The Bishop over the LDS church had asked Cindy to speak to the Lafayette Genealogical Society to see if we may be interested on cosponsoring the next event. It was mentioned that this could be a way of bring extra revenue for the Society. We also spoke of several other ways the society could increase membership as well as revenue. In addition, Cindy mentioned that all members would be signed up for a LALGS mailing list which would enable us to work with each other, share the monthly news letter, and latest genealogical news. Copies of Ancestral Endeavors will be available at the meetings for members who do not have email. Those that are not picked up will be sent by snail mail. Period Ending January 2004 Beginning Balance January $2,336.30 Debts Newsletter/Publication $0.00 Postage/ Box Rent Supplies/presents Books $0.00 Banquet/Publication Credits Deposits $300.00 (Membership Dues) Book Sales (Calander) Postage $ 8.50 Banquet $15.00 Ending Balance $ 2659.80 Our meeting was considered very productive and closed.