Alice, Please tell me how to join. Gloria -----Original Message----- From: Alice Kern <akern@nauticom.net> To: PABEAVER-L@rootsweb.com <PABEAVER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 7:34 PM Subject: [PABEAVER-L] Beaver Co. Genealogical Society >Hello list members, > >Let me tell you a little bit about the Beaver County Genealogical Society >and how it can help you with your research. First, we have a dedicated >staff of volunteers who meet every Monday and answer the queries that come >in the mail. This is done in a professional and well thought out manner >and the volunteers are all amateur genealogists with a great deal of >knowledge regarding Beaver County. If you join the society for $10.00 a >year, (a bargain! ) you get the quarterly journal called Gleanings. >Gleanings is not a newsletter advertising our next pot luck or antique >sale! Gleanings consists of lists: deaths for a certain year, tax lists, >orphans, marriages, histories of churches, cemetery records, etc. >Twenty-eight pages each quarter. In addition, you can place a query in >Gleanings once each quarter and reach over 200 people (most NOT on the >internet) researching ancestors in Beaver County. If you join, another >added benefit is that we do not charge the $5.00 fee for research (copies >still run 20 cents each). > >Then there are the surname files. At least 10 file cabinets (4 drawers >each) stuffed to the max with files containing correspondence that has come >from other genealogist for over twenty five years. All are filed by >surname being researched. If you send us your family group sheets, we put >them in the surname file. Who knows, tomorrow a distant cousin might do >the same thing! Newspaper clippings are also dropped in the surname files. > There could be a wealth of information waiting for you--you just need to >ask. We can't promise the answers to all your questions on your ancestors >but we'll sure give it a try with all the resources that we have. > >As much as we would like it, not everything is available on the internet >and we need to search other places for our roots. Yes, I'm a volunteer for >BCGS and proud of it. It's a great resource that is often overlooked. > >Alice Kern > > > > >==== PABEAVER Mailing List ==== >To contact Patti Caldwell, Listmistress, click below: > mailto:impattic@mediaone.net >remember, "Please practice random acts of kindness"........ > > > > > > > > >