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Committees:
Executive
Meets: 12:30 PM
Saturday
August 7, 2010
12:30 p.m. at
the LDS Church
1309 Kentucky Ave. S.
Mason City, Iowa |
Program
Meets:
TO BE
ANNOUNCED
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Obituary
Meets: 10:15 AM
Tuesday
August 10, 2010
Lower Level Conference Room
Clear Lake Public Library
Clear Lake, Iowa |
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Year 2008 Programs
You are invited!
First Saturday of each
month. 1:30 PM
"Mason City Room" Mason City Public Library
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Meeting cancelled because of winter weather conditions.
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February
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"Lake Mills
Historical Society"
Mildrid Nickson
will share the accomplishments of the Lake
Mills Historical Society from the time they
started meeting in an old one-room school
house. Learn about the challenges and
successes of renovating their current home .
. . a 1901 Victorian mansion.
Photo of three grandchildren of Soren Larson, the original
builder of the house. They came to
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"Traveling by Stage"
- Before railroads, early
travelers in Iowa climbed aboard the stagecoach.
Journeying along the Shell Rock River northward
from Cedar Falls, passengers could loosen their
jarred bones at two stops in the Floyd County
area.
LeNore Forbes guided members on a trip into the 19th
century at the Green and Rock Grove stage stops.
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March 1
Joyce Columbo of the
Mason City Public Library demonstrated (in the
reference room at the library) how to use the library
computers dedicated for research of databases to which
the library subscribes.
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Following this program,
we reassembled in our regular meeting room for a
little more programming, business meeting, and
refreshments. Loren Toomsen reported on the need for
recruits to the obituary committee program.
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March 20, 2008
I attended the library board meeting last
night. A year from now there will be many
changes in progress. We (NCIGS) will be
moved downstairs next to the archives
-- which made me want to jump up and shout,
"Amen!"
Dorothy
Paul
NCIGS President
March 25, 2008
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This NCIGS website was moved to a new data and service
center at the end of March.
This move should greatly improve our
publishing experience.
Jim Rogers
said he would like to visit a service
center. Here are two photos of servers
in a typical array, in a typical 24/7
service center. I don't have pictures
of our service center but they all look
about the same -- only multiplied by 100
times. I have been in two centers and
the numbers of computers are humongous.
We are dealing with one of the best service
providers on the web.
We publish
(upload) our obits, etc., up to such a service
center. Like all things, centers go out of
date and have to be completely replaced.
That is what happened in March. --
Loren
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March 29, 2008
This NCIGS website has just
completed a "migration" to a new server.
In this fast paced world computers completely
change once every 18 months. Our server (a
computer) itself needed to be retired, hence this
move to a new and more powerful service.
Expect this website to react much quicker to
your requests! And our beat goes on.
Enjoy!
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| April 5, 2008
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| May 3, 2008
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Genealogical Questions and Answers
or . . .
"My Visit to Salt Lake City."
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Marie Thompson: Genealogical Questions
and Answers |
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June 7, 2008
"Genealogical Detours"
/ Solving Problems with indirect
evidence.
Jay Fonkert, V.P. Minnesota Genealogical Society |
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July 5, 2008 |
NO MEETING due to the July 4th weekend celebrations.
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2, 2008
Terry Atkinson
Genealogy of Northern Ireland
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September 6, 2008
James Wolf
Iowans in the Civil War and Resulting
Genealogy |
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| October 4, 2008
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Show and Tell, a group sharing exercise . . .
Remember our Fathers
Bring whatever you want
-- within Reason! A memory tribute
to our fathers |
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| November 1, 2008 |
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December 6, 2008
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Our December 6th
program featured Irmgard Hein Ellingson.
Irmgard’s PowerPoint
presentation entitled
“Heimatkirchen:
Ancestral Churches in
Pommern, Posen, and the
Neumark”
will trace the origins
of the Emmanuel Lutheran
Church in Grafton, Iowa
to its ancestral
churches in present-day
Germany and Poland.
Irmgard, an author,
translator, and
lecturer, is the
American-born daughter
of post-World War II
German refugees from
Volhynia (pronounced voh
LEE nya) in the western
Ukraine.
She was the fourth
president of the
Federation of East
European Family History
Societies (FEEFHS
pronounced fiefs),
Salt Lake City, Utah.
She is a longtime member
of the American
Historical Society of
Germans from Russia in
Lincoln, Nebraska, and
serves on the editorial
committee for the AHSGR
Journal. In
1988, she was a
co-founder of the
Bukovina
Society of the Americas
in Ellis, Kansas, and is
a member of its board of
directors. From 1993
until 1997, she was U.S.
representative for the
quarterly Wandering
Volhynians
(Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada).
She has addressed
conventions of FEEFHS,
AHSGR, the Bukovina
Societies of the
Americas, the
Czechoslovak
Genealogical Society
International, and the
Polish Genealogical
Society of America, as
well as various
national, state, and
local historical
groups. Her publication
credits include several
books and shorter works
that have appeared in
American, Canadian,
German, and Brazilian
periodicals.
Irmgard is a
graduate of Winona (MN)
State College with a
degree in political
science and history and
of Wartburg Theological
Seminary (Dubuque,
Iowa), with a master’s
degree in ministry. A
former public school and
college instructor, she
is now the Associate of
Ministry in the Mission
Unity Lutheran Parish in
Grafton and rural Osage,
Iowa. |
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Program to be announced . . .
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