Dear Members and friends,
We are still need you to volunteer to staff our help tables for our "Help Night on October 1, 2013. Especially needed are helpers for "Beginners". Handouts are provided by the Society and will include 5 generation charts, family group sheets and our beginner help sheet. Please contact Richard Fellrath, lawfell@wowway.com to volunteer. Remember, someone helped you when you were a beginner.
We also need help for the following subjects: England, Germany, Michigan, Beginners, New York, and computers. Contact Richard Fellrath to volunteer, lawfell@wowway.com.
Your dues for 2013-14 are due 10/1/2013 and payable at any time by PayPal or US mail. You may also pay at the meeting on October first.
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These events may also be of interest to you: Detroit Area Events for September 28, 2013
Family History Festival - Saturday, September 28
Sponsored by the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, The Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society, The Burton Historical Collection, and the Friends of the Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, The Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society, The Burton Historical Collection, and the Friends of the Detroit Public Library.
Lisa Louise Cooke, whose presentations are entitled Ultimate Google Search Strategies and Tips and Get the Scoop on Your Ancestors with Newspapers and Dr. Deborah Abbot whose presentations are entitled Researching Archives & Libraries for Overlooked Manuscript & Special Collections and Using City Directories: An Overlooked Resource.
The festival is free and no pre-registration required. The Burton Historical Collection will be open for research from 10am-6pm.
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Genealogy Seminar - Saturday, September 28
Sponsored by the Plymouth Historical Museum, Plymouth Historical Museum, 155 S. Main Street, Plymouth, MI 48170. The fee for the day, $40, includes the four lectures, lunch, and the option of touring the Museum's special exhibit, "B4TV," during lunch and the afternoon break. Tickets are available at the Plymouth Historical Museum or on the Museum website using PayPal. The Plymouth Historical Museum will hold the sixth in a series of genealogical workshops to help family historians of all levels research their American ancestors. This seminar features two nationally known speakers.
Amy Johnson Crow, CG will present After Mustering Out: Researching Civil War Veterans and >Ten Years is a Long Time: Census Substitutes for the In-between Years.
Laura G. Prescott will present Through the Looking Glass: Making Sense of Digital Genealogy and The Rest of the Story: Using Manuscripts to Create a Family History.
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Woodmere CemeteryWalking Tour Sponsored by the Detroit Historical Society
Saturday, September 28 10 a.m. - noon
Pre-registration is required, $20 - Society members ------- $30 – Guests.
Woodmere is one of the most historic cemeteries in the Detroit area. Since its founding in 1867 by a group of prominent Detroit businessmen, Woodmere Cemetery has remained one of Detroit's "most beautiful treasures," according to author Gail Hershenzon. Accessible through an historic main entrance on West Fort Street, Woodmere features 240 acres with gently rolling hills and mature trees and a pond that is fed by a "baby creek" that runs underground. The cemetery has three garden mausoleums in addition to a chapel mausoleum. Notables such as Scripps, Bacon, Finney and many more are interred here.