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CONROE LIBRARY - Located @ I-45 and Hwy 2854

GROUND FLOOR LARGE MEETING ROOM

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2011

SOCIAL - 6:00 PM

MEETING & PROGRAM - 6:30PM

TEXAS INDEPENDENCE

PRESENTED BY:

JANICE CAMPBELL

Retired Interpreter

The Declaration of Independence was literally produced overnight when delegates met at Washington on the Brazos to declare their independence from Mexico. Timing was urgent because as the delegates met, the Alamo at San Antonio was under siege by Santa Anna's forces.

Janice Campbell, retired interpreter for Texas Parks and Wildlife at Washington on the Brazos, will be presenting the story of Texas Independence with such authority and animation, it is as though she lived the revolution herself. It is our pleasure to ask you to be our guests for a rare opportunity to meet your Texas Heritage.

DON'T BE LATE!

Join us for refreshments at 6:00 PM

MORE ABOUT JANICE CAMPBELL

presented by

Colleen Fitzpatrick

Please try to attend.  Remember this is your society and if there isn't participation by members the society can't continue.

In the past, attendance has been very low.  In order to conduct any business, the by laws require a quorum of 20 members.

Monday evening, 4 January 2010  at 6:00 PM

This will be the first meeting of the new Board of Directors.  President Henry Harris will present some potential goals.

The program will be a film on genealogical techniques followed by a possible workshop.

Barbara Franz and Courtenay Cross are First Vice President co-chairmen and they will be presenting the program.

Please try to attend to start off the new year with a "bang."

++++++++++++++++++++OUR NOVEMBER MEETING++++++++++++++++++

MCG&HS is presenting

"Another Breaking Through

Your Brickwalls"

November 9th

Upstairs in the

Genealogical Library

Also Election Night for our

2010-2011

MCG&HS Board & Officers

Slate of Officers for 2010 & 2011

Election to be held at the November 9^th Meeting ***

BE SURE TO ATTEND – WE NEED YOUR VOTE!

President                        Henry Harris

1st V.P.                           Barbara Franz/ Courtenay Cross

2nd V.P.                          Marsha Goodwin

3rd V.P.                           Sandra Harris

Treasurer                        Robert Wicker

Secretary                         Dorothy Wicker

Parliamentarian               Surcy Peoples

Librarian                          Suzanne Reese

Herald Editor                   To be appointed by President

Directors-at-Large            Sherry Henderson

                                        Frances Lane

                                        Robin Montgomery

                                        Frances Peoples

A quorum of 20 is necessary to hold the election.

BE SURE TO ATTEND…..
YOUR

VOTE IS NEEDED

October 10, 2009 MEETING

MCG&HS is presenting

WHEN---- October 10, 2009

WHERE---Ground Floor Meeting

Room, Montgomery County Library

TIME-----   9:30 AM -- 12:30 Noon

© 2006 - 2008 Charlie Gardes
(For Intermediate to Advanced Researchers)
Charlie Gardes 14027 Memorial Drive. No. 180
e-Mail: cagardes@gmail.com Houston, TX 77079

WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CIVIL WAR...GRANDPA? 

INTRODUCTION
The War Between the States, 1861 - 1865 has been, to date, the greatest conflict in our country’s history.

The 1860 U.S. Census shows a free population in what became the Confederate
State of America of over 7.5 million citizens.  Of that, only a little over 1 million - less than 15 percent - served in the military.  The war impacted the remaining 85 percent of the southern population - which lived, literally, in a war zone - much like wars
of the twentieth century impacted the citizens of Europe. Many citizens knew the sight of both armies traveling through their area.

If an ancestor lived during times of war genealogists will first turn to military records
on the ancestor hunt. However, there are both large and small record sets, and collections that deal with the interaction of the military and civilians that are often neglected in the quest.

These records can often put “flesh on the bones” of our ancestors, but can also identify new locales for vital record searches, and even provide brief biographical (and therefore genealogical) information that can never be
found anywhere else, including the Internet.

COMPLETE HANDOUT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF LECTURE.

MEET ME AT THE RACCOON LODGE
Researching in The International Order of Hoo-Hoo
and Other Fraternal Organization Records
© 2007 - 2008 Charlie Gardes
(For Intermediate Researchers)
Charlie Gardes 14027 Memorial Drive, No. 180
e-Mail: cagardes@gmail.com Houston, TX 77079

INTRODUCTION

Was your ancestor an Odd Fellow? Did he wear an apron? Does your pedigree possibly have Elks, Eagles, Woodmen, Hibernians, Redmen, Owls, Monkees, or Big Dogs in it? Was great-grandma married to a Hoo-hoo?

Fraternal organizations in America were at their zenith in the first half of the twentieth century, but their existence had been established long before Independence. George Washington was a Free Mason for twenty-four years by 1776.  Similarly, the first fraternal organization in Texas was chartered when Texas was still ruled by Mexico. America has long been known as a nation of “joiners” and Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were only two of millions of Americans who belonged to fraternal organizations since this country's inception. There has been well over two thousand charitable, benevolent, or secret groups that our ancestors could have joined. Fraternal records can answer some of the questions we have, but they can also offer much more including solving that decades old research puzzle.

This lecture will discuss the rich history of fraternal groups in America, learning how to identify whether an ancestor belonged to one (or more) groups, which ones, how to find those records, and what type of content or deep dark secrets those records may hold.

COMPLETE HANDOUT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF LECTURE.

This is a 

"FREE SEMINAR"

and worth your time

as a striving genealogist.

See you there!