Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, May 13, 2006 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Carol Taylor Program: "Funeral Practices in the 18th and 19th Century" Our speaker for May, Carol Taylor, will present a program on "Funeral Practices in the 18th and 19th Centuries." Our ancestors did not have the funeral home as we do today, so they had other ways to deal with the death of a loved one. Carol will explain the common practices our ancestors used in dealing with death and burials. She will include a power point presentation of tombstone styles and explanation of some symbols on older headstones. Carol Taylor is the director of the Northeast Texas Genealogy Center located in Greenville, Texas. Her work there includes archival preservation, oral histories, writing a weekly local and family history newspaper column, and spearheading a film project related to local historical sights. She develops programs for a local summer symposium called "Texana: Texas Legends and Lore" for local population. She was the 2003 Winner of the Ottis Locke Award from the East Texas Historical Association. Carol is chairman of the Hunt County Historical Commission. She has researched and written numerous historical marker applications for Hunt County. She has a special interest in preservation of historic cemeteries, especially those that have been abandoned. She is the historian of Kavanaugh Methodist Church. Carol Taylor holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Midwestern State University in Education. Currently, she is a graduate student at Texas A & M University-Commerce seeking a Masters in History. Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Debbie Parker Wayne will present a program on "Computer Folder Customization". She will show us how to change preferences in Windows Explorer to get the most useful folder view for your personal style and the safest options to set for internet use. She will also show us how to create folders to organize your genealogical files. 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.