Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, August 12, 2006 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Paula Perkins Program: "Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Finding Your Newsworthy (& not so newsworthy) Ancestors Through Newspaper Research" Looking for birth, death, marriage, divorce, shipping lists, train routes, murder & mayhem? Secular and denominational newspapers have been microfilmed from across the United States and available through interlibrary loan and many have been digitalized. State and Local newspapers are archiving and digitalizing their newspapers and have searchable indexes to their databases online. These include wedding announcements, birth, obits, anniversary milestones of ministers and the list goes on. Both printed and online indexes will help guide you to newspapers and locations of where the newspaper can be found. Come find how to locate newspapers around the country locally to assist you in your genealogical pursuits of putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Paula is a native Texan with over 25 years of genealogical experience in research, speaking and teaching on the subject of family history. Her grandmother and parents assisted in promoting her interest in genealogy when she was a child by taking her to visit all the "older" members of the family. In addition her maternal "Granny", that lived just shy of 100 years old, was the family historian for her family and her husband's family. She collected a large amount of material on the family and educated Paula on all of branches of the "family tree." Paula has been the guest speaker/instructor at universities, spoken to genealogical and historical groups in several states and served on the board for several local genealogical societies. Paula was the Dallas PBS television station's Coordinator for the Family History Community Outreach program in conjunction with the "Ancestor" series. She is presently the Vice President of the Collin County Genealogical Society and Registrar for the society's Pioneer First Families of Collin County project and Federation of Genealogical Societies delegate. Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Beverly Bailey Odom will lead a round table discussion on "Basic Computer Tasks." At 10 a.m. that morning ETGS will also sponsor a "Junior Genealogy Class" featuring Frances Grochowski. She will present a program called "Who Are Grandma and Grandpa?" The class will meet on the 2nd Saturday for 5 months. It will introduce the participants to the basics in genealogy research including preparing family trees and charts, research in libraries, and on the internet. The class is open to children ages from 9 to 13. Boy and Girl Scouts are encouraged to attend because this program will fulfill the requirements of several badges. The class will be limited to first 15 registered. For more information about this class or to preregister, contact Frances at (903) 849-6608 or by e-mail at frankieski@aol.com with subject line of "Jr Genealogy." 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, 1st Vice-President.