You are invited!
Second Saturday of each
month. 1:30 PM
"2nd Floor, Board Room" Mason City Public Library
2011
December 10, 2011
Marvin Chickering from Algona
gave the program on
the life size Nativity Scene that was built during WW2 by
the German prisoners of war in Camp Algona. Plus
information on their museum.
November 12, 2011
‘Iowans in the Civil War’
battles, by David Grill of Clear Lake.
October 8, 2011
‘A Century of Caring’- over
100 years of Film shared by Deb Haugen and Joel Rasmussen of
the IOOF Home.
September 10, 2011
Barb Hanes Roberts from Clear Lake, lA -
shared with us about "When the Women Came to Des Moines."
She spoke of Iowa native Nettie Sanford
Chapin, who promoted the idea of a female presidential
candidate.
August 13, 2011
Irish Heritage by Mr. Aiden Kelly from Forest City IA. Mr. Kelly
was originally from Wexford - southeast part of Ireland. Irish
Heritage by Mr. Aiden Kelly from Forest City IA. Mr. Kelly was
originally from Wexford - southeast part of Ireland.
July 9, 2011
July's program was presented at the
Kinney Pioneer Museum. Dennis Bryant and Wayne Rathman demonstrated one of the early lost arts of broom making.
June 4, 2011
Genealogy Library tour.
May 7, 2011
The obituary/website committee
presented a program on Family Search sites. A podcast was played
from familysearch.org
highlighting some new features from that site. The podcast was
about a U.S. Courthouse search.
April 2, 2011
The program entitled “A Civil War Family and How
the War Affected Them” was presented by Sharlene Stoddard.
Her great-great grandfather, Charles Davis, was one of 8
children born to James Sullivan Davis and his wife
Parintha Lawrence.
March 5,
2011
Jim
Rogers used a laptop to demonstrate the method he
uses to copy obituaries from area newspapers to
the obituary page of the ncigs.org web site. Jim
has been a member of NCIGS since moving to
Garner in 1999. He also was an active member of
PAF-Ways from 1999 to the close of its existence.
In addition to the couple of newspapers he
archived, he took over the papers that Chuck
Prickett was archiving after Chuck’s death.
Also, Following
Jim’s demonstration, Jay Lehmann showed how
to access the NCIGS obituaries using various
search engines such as google.com, yahoo.com,
bing.com, and webcrawler.com. Jay also was
active in PAF-Ways and currently is serving as
president of NCIGS.
February 5, 2011
The February 5, 2011 meeting of North Central
Iowa Genealogy Society was held in the Mason City Room of the
Public Library and was very well attended.
Daniel
R. Sabin is Owner and President of the Iowa
Northern Railway Company based in Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa Northern is a 163-mile shortline
railroad which runs diagonally from north to
south from Manly to Cedar Rapids, all within the
State of Iowa. Dan bought the struggling line,
in 1994 from on-line elevators, which is made up
of remnants from the former Chicago, Rock
Island, and Pacific Railway Company, and was
established as a short line in 1984. At that
time, the railroad handled 12,000 revenue cars
and the average track speed was less than 10
mph. In 2006, traffic surged to 40,000 revenue
cars and the average track speed is now 30 mph.
Since Dan's purchase of the line, the railroad
has invested over $1.3 million per year in
bringing up the line to a state of good repair
while increasing reliability and customer
service. Plans are underway to spend an
additional $55 million over the next five years
in capital and capacity improvements.
Additionally, Dan has managed the partnership
and location of two ethanol plants on the line,
as well as other various industries and economic
development initiatives. In October 2006, the
Iowa Northern and the Keiwiet Group Companies
broke ground on
Manly Terminal, LLC;
a joint venture - first of its kind ethanol and
biofuels storage and trading facility in Manly,
Iowa.
Prior to the Iowa Northern, Dan was Co-Founder,
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of
Iron Road Railways based in Alexandria, VA which
owned and operated various shortline operations
including the former Bangor and Aroostook
System. Dan also has experience as Co-Founder
and President of his own transportation
consulting firm, as well as from his days with
CSX Transportation, Canadian Pacific Railway and
the Rock Island.
Sabin is also owner and operator of the Hawkeye
Express, under contract to furnish shuttle train
service to Iowa Hawkeye home football games.
He is a graduate of Grandview College and
Southwest Oklahoma State University, in
Economics and Business, and resides in
Coralville with his wife Colleen
