The Flashback is the Fannin Genealogical Society Quarterly. We began last Sept. So the June issue coming up is the last of our first year. We offer free queries, so I announce it onlist everyso often. These are useful as many genealogist do not use computers on the internet still and also you never know how long the quarterly will sit in a library till just the right person comes along. I made my first big break in a 1957 issue! I read it in 1995 and found a distant cousin and solved many family mysteries. So you really never know. It would very difficult to send a transcript of a meeting. I'm not sure how that would be done. When I speak , I'm all over the place and enjoy it so I crack jokes and such. It would be probably a mess to see that in writing! The spoken word usually looks stange , like a disjointed play script. Plus we show pictures and maps and such at the meetings and pass things around. I doubt if that will be done because these aren't 'canned' speeches. They are people coming in for all kinds of talks or demonstrations. I keep handouts if their are any so they would be available in the new Family History Center. The hours and staff are being figured and trained. This is not part of the society but the society will benefit from the FHC being on site. I have seen the blueprints for the new Church building and all I can say is 'WOW" Since we use the Church's resources for free it will more than work well for us. We can't beat a bargain like that! Because we in this building , If we receive something from you , I will need to know , 1. is it for the Fannin or Grayson TXGenWeb sites? I'm the webmaster for both (and yes if it is in connection with both it can appear on both sites) 2. is it for the new vertical files in the Family History Center? If so they may later be converted onto a cd so they don't take up too much space. We will have limited space. The Bonham library proably will allow us to set up a vertical family file but at this time they do not keep one. The society has volunteered to help the public library set up their genealogy section as soon as remodeling is done. We will also be figuring out how to help them expand their collections. I will write a 'Pathfinder" for patrons coming into Fannin and Grayson for research so they will know the strengths of the various collections and libraries/ musuems etc. available. It will be a handout type thing at all public places. Yes you may email or if someone needs to snail mail a question to be asked at a meeting I can do that. I already take all letters and we pass them around etc. Just be sure to let me know if something is slated for the genweb , the Flashback (or both) or for the FHC's research lists and vertical files. Grayson county has a fine , long standing society, but no news quarterly . I am not sure why they stopped as I have seen old copies of their quarterly. There is a group that meets in Denison but I am not aware of any material available from them. As for Books we have no plans at this time. I try to keep out of things like that as I want everything on the web free for all. I don't see them doing anything like that, mostly due to lack of volunteers at the moment for it. I will be asking for volunteers to come to the FHC and help me gather things for the web. The local library's have my written permission to copy off the web anything I put together if they need to so it can sit on a shelf for use. (of course they miss out on additions I make all the time and the freeze for all time the stupid mistakes that I try to find and correct. The web is much more forgiving!) It is my personal opinion that books are too expensive ( I sure can't afford them) and I have yet to see one that is flawless) We are gathering church histories. It was supposed to be a page or so for each church and be put in denominations in a book that was to be a very limited publication for the public librarys and the FHC. However the snag is that the material we have collected has either come in not at all OR come in huge bites. So it will be a much larger collection than imagined. It is wonderful. We need pictures of the churchs and lists of early members and session book copies even. I may have to create it on cd format if it gets too large so we can use a search feature. ( either way we will index the whole collection and put that index online) So send your info, your suggestions and such to me and I will get it to the proper person. It is hard to be far away from where you are researching. Most of my genealogy is elsewhere but if we all work hard here and yall work hard there we can all get helped. The net is such a blessing ! Susan "David L. Cates" wrote: > > Susan I need you help please. I live in Ohio but want to get more involved with Fannin and Grayson Counties. My father,his parents and his grandparents lived in both Fannin and Grayson counties. I cannot attend monthly meetings and know I loose valuable information presented by guest speakers. How can I join the associations and how do I subscribe to periodicals published like the Flashback? Another concern of mine, and perhaps it has already be considered, I don't know. However, is there a way meeting information can be recorded and e-mailed to members of the association or subscribers to the Flashback? One last thing, is it possible for me to e-mail question to be asked in my behalf at the meetings? > > Thanks, > David L. Cates > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Susan Hawkins > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:06 PM > To: TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXFANNIN-L] Fannin County Flashback > > The June Issue of the Fannin County Flashback is going into editiing > this week. If you have a query for the Flashback please email it to me > to be included in the next day or two. > Also will take biographical sketch /photographs , any items of interest > must pertain to Fannin County in some way. Thank you, Susan > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > How can just one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE ??