Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, November 13, 2004 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Lynna Kay Shuffield Program: "Conducting Cemetery Projects" Guest speaker, Lynna Kay Shuffield will discuss ways to conduct a cemetery project, including indexing, abstracting, organizing and collecting tombstone and burial information. In addition, she will demonstrate how to clean and photograph grave markers; use GPS in cemetery projects; and research cemetery history and individuals buried at the graveyard. Ms. Shuffield writes the "Our Loose Ends" genealogy column that is published in the several Texas newspapers. She has written several books and is a member of many local and state genealogical societies, as well as the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She lectures frequently to genealogy and historical societies, veteran groups, and on 20th Century Military and War Dead Research as well as cemetery preservation. She is the Texas GenWeb County Coordinator for Milam County and San Jacinto County websites. She received the Outstanding Genealogy Website in Texas award that was presented by TSGS for her Milam County website in 2003. Her current major projects include the "Milam County, Texas War Dead Project" and Texas Cemetery Preservation. Lynna was also named as the Volunteer of the Year by the Texas State Genealogical Society for 2004 at Victoria this weekend. Lynna's presentation will also include suggestions on how to publish cemetery projects and how to apply for a Texas Historic Cemetery Designation from the Texas Historical Commission. There will not be a Computer Interest Group meeting, but we will have a refreshment break during Lynna's program. To visit Lynna's web site go to: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/2670/COLUMN-001.htm 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/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, President.