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January 3rd:
Meeting
1:30 p.m.
"What to do with your Genealogy Stuff"
Panel
discussion and audience participation event.
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February 7th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Sharing Keepsake Postcards"
everyone is invited to bring old postcards and
share the stories behind them. These post cards
may give you bits and pieces of obscure family
facts. Sometimes just the postmark and address
will give you a research clue.
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March
6th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Tombstone
Restoration"
presented by Jim Kramer of Orchard, Iowa. Jim
has restored hundreds of tombstones and will
tell us about general mapping, probing, and
remounting, including the preparation for
gluing.
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April 3rd:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"How to
Compose Your Heritage Scrapbook"
presented by Pat Fairbanks. Pat will
speak about creating an heirloom album for
future generations. She will include
restoration, easy set-up, appropriate colors,
preservation of photographs, and use of
historical documents and memorabilia. Come and
learn some new techniques to make your albums
more personal and interesting. Use some
creativity to enhance the presentation of your
family history.
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May
1st:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Naming Patterns"
presented by Joan Sawyer. Joan will discuss the
naming patterns for areas of Germany and the
Scandinavian Countries. Her presentation will
include patronymics and other customs used in
giving names to children in the family.
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June 5th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN IOWA"
Presented by Galin Berrier,
adjunct instructor in history at the Des Moines
Area Community College and member of the
Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau.
The Underground Railroad,
historians agree, is shrouded in myth and
legend. Did it really exist in Iowa, and if so,
when and how? Was it highly organized or did its
"conductors" and "station agents" mostly
improvise? Were fugitive slaves usually hidden
beneath trap doors in cellars or were they more
likely to be concealed in attics and garrets or
outdoors in heavy brush and timber? What part
did African Americans themselves play in helping
fugitive slaves find their way to freedom? How
many fugitives are likely to have passed through
Iowa and how do we know if reputed "safe houses"
actually existed in our own communities? These
are some of the questions addressed in this
inquiry into a sometimes controversial but
always fascinating episode in Iowa's history.
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July 3rd:
No meeting - have a safe 4th!
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August 7th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
Accessing DAR
Records
Joan Bartel,
the Regent of the Mason City Chapter of the DAR
(Daughters of the American Revolution), will
acquaint us with the DAR and how we can access
their very extensive genealogy records."
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September 4th:
No meeting - have an enjoyable
Labor Day weekend!
Bus Trip to the Iowa Genealogy
Society Library and the State Historical
Library in Des Moines is scheduled for
September 11th.
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October
2nd:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"TBA"
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November 6th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"TBA"
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December 4th:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"TBA"
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