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Monthly Membership Meetings   


Monthly Meetings

 

Second Monday of each month, 1:30 to 3:00 PM

 

September - May

First Presbyterian Church

Swain Hall - 12225 N 103rd Ave. Sun City, AZ

 

Yes, these meetings are open to the public as well as members.

 

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Come early and browse the info tables & displays, sign up for classes, and talk to your friends

 

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Meeting Speaker      Topic
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September 10, 2007 Richard L. Clift

Working in a Family History Booth

Tips on how the speaker has helped hundreds with their genealogy needs.

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October 8, 2007

Dr. Marilyn Nagy

How to plan a more productive research trip to another state or country.  Ways to set up your time to visit the libraries, record sites, museums, etc. and the homeland sites that you want to go to.

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November 12, 2007

Ruth Jackson Van Epps

Author of

Their Westward Star

In 1875 Ruth's Gt-Gdparents came to the Arizona Territory by covered wagon.  Hear tales of the early west from their journal and stories from many other "old timers".

 

Annual Board Election

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December 10, 2007

 

Judy Wight Branson

Judy has launched many Gravestone

Photo Project Web sites

 

Buried treasure, for Judy cemeteries are exciting places-

 filled with genealogies to chart and mysteries to solve.

 

Buried Treasure Awaits

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January 14, 2008

Barbara Dienes

Member of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Phoenix Area Chapter

 

Barbara will tell us about 4 years (1870-74)

in the life of a pioneer woman,

Martha Summerhayes.

 

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February 11, 2008

 

Arlene Everett

Sorry, this presentation will be made at a later date.

 

Learn about the significant contributions

of African-American Inventors.

 

 

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March 10, 2008

 

Blaine Hedberg

Exec. Dir. Norwegian American Genealogical Center

 

How to research Norwegian Ancestors
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April 14, 2008

Melanie Sturgeon

Dir. of AZ State Archives

"Paper Trails Through the Archives"

 

What is the difference between

a Library and an Archive?

 

Melanie will show you the kind of

records that you can often find

in any State's Archives.

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May 12, 2008

 

Gina Laczko

Director of Education, Heard Museum

 

How to search for ancestors from

American Indian Tribes

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