The July 15th Meeting will be held at the Dupree Library, 3rd floor, Louisiana Room. Hours will be 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.. We would like all members on committes to come an hour early at 5:30 p.m. There have been newspaper articles in the newspapers, here and Baton Rouge. If you can bring a copy to the meeting. We want to make our meetings more available to old members and new members. Time and hours. Need Discussion We want to recruit old, ex members. Why they left? How can we get them back? Did they need a ride? Need Discussion We have a lot of experience with our members on researching genealogy. We need them to help, by speaking about some of the problems of our society to recruit, train and volunteer for some of our projects. We would like to undertake many more projects. Most of this work you can do at home or at the library. Need Discussion We need to discuss a meeting with open channel, Lafayette T.V. about our Genealogy Society. What to include. Need Discussion We want to discuss Brickwalls of members. Need Discussion We want to pair our new members with old members doing the same surname research. We want you to help them get started, not do their genealogy and be available for some of their questions in the future. Need Discussion Our speaker for tomorrow night will be Estelle Perraulet, president of the Imperial St. Landry Genealogical and Historical Society. _www.imperialstlandry.org_ (http://www.imperialstlandry.org) . I attended a meeting last saturday in Opelousas. They discussed the making of a pictorial history of the area. Her talk will be well worth coming to the meeting. Our August meeting will be at the downtown library, August 19, 2004 and our speaker will be Lauren Smith. She will be talking about _www.ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com) , How it works and how to search your history. Also she will talk about researching through the library's website for magazine articles on genealogy from Time, Life, and newspapers. This work can be done at home or at the library. One of our upcoming meetings will be a Private Investigator thats finds people and does genealogy. We also need speakers to talk about: Genealogical Resources in the Lafayette Area. Getting the most from the Census. Internet for Genealogists. Online databases. Computer Basics. Beginnine Genealogy. Using Land Records. Using PERSI in Family History Research. De-Mystifying GEDCOM. How to care for, protect and repair old photographs. Need someone to tell us how to search church records. Now this Electronic Newsletter is off and running. Any questions or problems. Earl Gates Lafayette Genealogy Society