Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, January 14, 2006 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Judy Knight Program: "Interlibrary Loans for Genealogists" Everyone has found a book about an elusive ancestor in a library 500 miles away, but they will only copy a couple of pages. Find out how you can have this book at your home or local library to peruse at your leisure through Interlibrary Loan Programs. Our speaker, Judy Knight, will give us the best places to request interlibrary loans and tell of her experiences with each place. Judy is a graduate of East Texas State University in Commerce and a retired elementary school teacher. Judy is married to Willis Knight, a photographer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. They have two grown sons and one grandson. Her love of genealogy began as a child and she started activity researching about 35 years ago. She has a certificate for the First Families of Tennessee for my ancestor who was a resident of Tennessee before 1796, an Oregon Pioneer Certificate for my ancestor who traveled the Oregon Train in 1853, three certificates for Civil War Families of Tennessee and a Gone to Texas certificate. She has also received a Texas First Families certificate for her husband. She has traveled extensively doing family history research. She is Past President of the Mid-Cities Genealogical Society and currently District 11 Representative and President Elect for Texas State Genealogical Society. She has written two books on her family, Sharing My Heritage, Allen Family History and Historic W.V.S. Allen Cemetery. The second book received a first place award in the Dallas Genealogical Society Writing Awards Division 4 in 2004. She was involved in the process of having her family cemetery named as a Historic Texas Cemetery at 2001 and received a certificate for her work from the Texas Historical Commission. This cemetery is just south of Haslet in Tarrant County. As chairman of the cemetery's 125th Anniversary Celebration she organized a special celebration and reunion that was held in October 2005. Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Scott Fitzgerald will present a program on "Finding Books by Looking at sites as WorldCat on Heritage Quest, Abebooks, or Ebay". Information on upcoming programs can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/meetings.html East Texas Genealogical Society represent six counties which are Anderson, Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rusk and Smith counties. ETGS publishes the "East Texas Family Records" four times a year which features articles and records concerning our six counties and a monthly newsletter "The Bulletin" which features information about our society, things of interest to our members and information about our six counties. ETGS has began a First Families of East Texas covering our six counties. To find out about this program go to following link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/FirstFamilies/firstfam.html For more information, you may contact me at scottfitzgerald@tyler.net or go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/ Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald, Vice-President.