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Special Interest Groups
Contact the SIG Coordinator at Vacant,
or (703)-Vacant
for further
information.
Many meetings are held at Branch Libraries of the Fairfax County
Public Library System.
The
Library web site has locations, maps, and driving
directions.
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Special Interest Group |
Coordinator(s) |
Meetings |
| Beginners |
(703) 734-9180 |
The Beginners’ Special Interest Group will present a repeating series of 6 classes on the basics of genealogy research. Every effort will be made to be accessible to a total novice and yet go into enough depth to provide a solid foundation for good research practices. Email Lori Smith for further information. Next series of sessions will be on Thursdays 21 January through 25 February 2010. These meetings are held 1:00PM to 2:00PM at the
McLean
Family
History
Center
in one
of the classrooms. Please see MapQuest for directions to 2034 Great Falls St.,
McLean
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| Board for
Certification of Genealogists |
Richard
Camaur (703) 690-1783 |
The BCG SIG assists members who want to learn more about Board of Certification process. Please contact the coordinator for further information. The SIG is open to all FxGS members who have been certified in genealogy or are interested in the certification or renewal processes. For further information, please contact Richard Camaur.
Meetings Saturdays 10:00AM until Noon at The City of Fairfax Regional Library Virginia Room conference room. Please see MapQuest for directions. |
| Carolina and Georgia Connections | Nancy
Blevins (703) 207-0241 |
Meetings are held on Saturdays 1:30PM to 3:30PM at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library; 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. Please see MapQuest for directions. |
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Daytime Methodology |
Edith Lorah
(703) 255-0451 |
The Methodology SIG now meets at the Patrick Henry Library, 101 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. This is on Rte 123 in downtown Vienna. Please see MapQuest for directions. The Methodology SIG meets for two hours on the first Thursday of the month, unless noted differently. Chuck Mason will Chair the meetings. We will meet from 1-3:30PM.
Next currently scheduled meetings:
September 2, 2010
Understanding the Records and What are They Telling You
October 7, 2010
Creative Memories photo editing program
November 4, 2010
Share information about favorite books you have used for research
December 2, 2010
Treasures or Trash
January 6, 2011
TBD
February 3, 2011
TBD
March 3, 2011
TBD
April 7, 2011
TBD
May 5, 2011
Brickwalls
June 2, 2011
Decision to be made on meeting this month
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Family History Writing |
Will
White (703)-476-4328 |
All meetings are held the first
Monday of every month (unless the first Monday is a holiday), except July
and August, at 7:00 p.m. at Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library in the Large
Meeting Room, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. Please
see MapQuest
for directions. Perfect your family history writing skills. Bring your hard-won research out of the closet and onto the coffee table. How to write for scholarly publications, for your family and for yourself. |
| German |
(703)-922-4387
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The German SIG meets the
third Monday of every month (unless the third Monday is a holiday) at Kings Park
Library in the large meeting room, 9000 Burke Lake Rd.,
Burke, VA
Please
note the
extensive “Palatine Project” ship lists that Kory Meyerink has been
posting, as well as the outstanding articles put together by his
ProGenealogists. The ship lists are at http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/pa/.
They have started adding sources (like Burgert’s books) which can give
more info about the immigrant. Unfortunately for those of you with
19th century immigrants, their work up to now has been on 18th
century ships.
No
meetings will be held in December or the summer. The
German SIG has a Yahoo web site at: |
| Irish |
Vacant |
The
Irish SIG meetings are held on the third Monday of every month from 7:30
pm to 9 pm in Meeting Room 101A at the Fairfax Regional Library in Fairfax
City. Please see MapQuest
for directions. Action Item: Members are requested to send their ideas and questions about meeting themes and topics to Mike Healy for consolidation and organization. |
| Mid-Atlantic | Leslie
Bouvier (703) 742-6994 |
The
Mid-Atlantic SIG covers
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia
as well as New York City. We meet eight times a
year. Starting in September 2010 on the first Tuesday of the month from
If Fairfax County schools close, delay opening, or dismiss early due to inclement weather, our meeting is cancelled. Our 2010-2011 schedule is as follows: 8
September (Wednesday) "Little
Germany," Sharon Hodges presenting. We will have a brick wall session in 2011. We are also planning a field trip to the Alexandria Library, which has quite a good collection of genealogy-related resources.
RESEARCH
TRIP TO DELAWARE: We already have several members interested
in a research trip to Dover, Delaware. Please let me
know if you'd be interested; it would be nice to set up car pools, if
possible. We also need to pick a date. |
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Vacant |
Meetings are held every fourth Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Meetings
will be at the Bishops' at |
| New England Study Group |
703-321-9675 |
The New England Study Group meets every other month, on the second Tuesday of the month at 1 p.m. in the MVGS Research Center. Every other month it meets on the first Thursday at 7:00 p.m., down the hall from the McLean Family History Center. Linda will make every effort to cover the same material two months in a row so that no one will "miss" anything.
The next two meetings of the New
England Study Group will be about researching Rhode Island genealogy.
The evening group will meet on Thursday, April 1st at the McLean Family
History Center at 7 p.m. The daytime group will cover the same material
on Tuesday May 11th at the Hollin Hall Research Center, at 1 p.m. The
evening group will cover the same material on Thursday, May 8th at the
McLean Family History Center at 7 p.m.
And every other month,
it will meet on the first
Thursday at
Anyone interest in learning the
very latest materials and methods available for New England Colonial
Research is invited to attend the next meeting of the New England
Study Group on June 3rd at 7 pm down the hall from the McLean Family
History Center, at 2034 Great Falls Street.
This lecture by Linda Maclachlan will
be a repeat of the Colonial New England power point lecture
first presented at a Mount Vernon Genealogical Society workshop on
April 21st. The New England Study Group will then adjourn for the
summer
My personal address book is becoming inundated with email addresses from this SIG. Thus I have established a Yahoo mail list to provide an independent address book. This arrangement brings with it the facility for a meeting calendar, generating timely meeting reminders that are always accurate, open discussion between meetings and the exchange and download of documents. I have already posted the final version of BEYOND THE BARBOUR INDEX: A FINDER’S GUIDE TO MORE -- AND MORE ACCURATE -- EARLY CONNECTICUT BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES, as submitted to NewEnglandAncestors.org yesterday, and an updated version of ALL NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANTS by 1635- A COMPREHENSIVE INDEX, as it will be posted on the GreatMigration.org website any day now. The site is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewEnglandStudyGroup/
The New
England SIG intends to use this website to send out future meeting
notices, to permit members who don’t attend meetings to keep up with
goings-on in |
| New York | Betty
Stacey (703) 442-8471 |
All meetings on Mondays at 7:30 P.M. at Marshall High School, Leesburg Pike. Please see MapQuest for directions. Next meeting will be 18 October 2010. |
| NGS Home Study Course | Lee James
Irwin (703) 573-2985 |
The National Genealogical Society offers four study courses. Three are short online courses: "Intro to Genealogy"; "Federal Census"; and "Special Census." <http://ngsgenealogy.org/Courses/Course.cfm> The fourth is their well-known NGS "American Genealogy: A Home Study Course." <http://ngsgenealogy.org/eduhsc.cfm>
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| Old Dominion | Vacant |
The Virginia SIG has been
renamed to include Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Linda MacLachlan has established a Yahoo mail list to provide an independent address book for the Old Dominion SIG. This arrangement brings with it the facility for a meeting calendar, generating timely meeting reminders that are always accurate, open discussion between meetings and the exchange and download of documents. Linda has already posted three documents: VDOT's wonderful History of Virginia Roads, and descriptions of online databases of West Virginia and Tennessee vital records. As she -- or others -- supply additional documents for posting, Linda will make them available to everyone like this. If you want to discuss something that has been posted at a SIG meeting, just print out a copy and bring it to the next meeting. The site is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldDominionSIG/ You can go to the website at any time and click on the Join icon, and Linda will approve your membership. In the next few weeks, Linda will be sending out invitations to those on her mail list that have not joined; a simple response will get you a basic memberships and you will receive future emails. In joining by either method, if you do not already have a Yahoo profile associated with your email address, you may need to establish a Yahoo ID to have privileges for posting email and for access to the files section of the web site. |
| Pennsylvania |
(703) 960-4249 |
Would like to find out if there is anyone interested in a trip to the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. Their genealogy library covers the Western third of PA. Again, if you are interested, contact me by phone or email. |
| Speakers |
Chuck
Mason |
Forthcoming meetings and topics to be announced. Contact Chuck Mason for details. Next meeting will be in January. |
| Surnames Projects and Genetic Genealogy | Jim Logan (703) 743-2256 |
The Surnames Projects and Genetic Genealogy SIG meets the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM. The purpose of this SIG is to explore how genetics and genealogy combine. Major topics of discussion are Single Surname Studies and DNA projects. Meetings are at the Kilmer Middle School, 8100 Wolf Trap Rd., Vienna VA. Click here for MapQuest directions. The following meeting
rooms are confirmed at Kilmer Middle School: Please join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GenGen-NV/ for further SIG details and events. |
| Tech |
Meetings are
held in the Library of Kilmer Middle School at 7:30 pm on the 2nd Thursday
of the month, except December and January. Directions to the school
are available at MapQuest
at the school follow
the directions painted on the top of the hallways. Starting in May 2010 we will be watching short videos on various tech topics followed by discussion and Q&A, topics to be announced. June 10 -
"Keeping a Research Log in Excel, Part I" |
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