TVGS Events Calendar
Meetings in 2013 will be January 24, April 25, July 25, and October 24.
Unless otherwise noted, board meetings are held in meeting rooms A & B of the Huntsville Public
Library at 6:30 PM on the second Monday of each month.
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April 2013 |
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Board Meeting |
| Day: Monday, April 8 |
| Time: 6:30 PM |
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Location: Huntsville Public Library, Rooms AB |
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April 2013 |
| Regular Membership Meeting (Visitors always welcome) |
| Day: Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
| Time: 7:00 PM |
| Program: Robert S. Davis, History Professor and Directory of the Genealogy Program of Wallace State Community College, Hanceville, Alabama on “The Township in the Colonial South: Research and Records of our Exceptional Frontier Ancestors in Georgia and the Carolinas.” He will discuss the township plans in the pre-Revolutionary War South based on ethnicity, religion, foreign birth, and other factors, as well as the records that, when they survive, can open an ancestor’s lost past. These townships in general will be discussed, but also specifically Queensborough and Wrightsborough in Georgia; the Quakers and Moravians in North Carolina; and the origins of this system in Virginia. |
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Location: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Auditorium |
| UPCOMING PROGRAMS _____________________________________________________________________________ July 25, 2013 -- Cynthia Guffey, Vice President of TVGS, will tell us
about "Scottish Genealogy: Finding your clan with 21st Techniques."
The program will include an overview of Scottish
immigration history, formation of Scottish surnames, and migration
patterns in America will be covered. Information from the Sanford
Scottish Genealogy class will be shared also. October 24, 2013 -- Twyla Bramell, ,
will speak about the Oregon Trail Experience. In period costume,
Mrs. Brammell will use the diary from her direct ancestor who travelled
the Oregon Trail as part of her program.
Her presentation outlines some of the landmarks
of the Oregon Trail and will give listeners the impact of daily life on
the Trail.
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| Spring Seminar Featuring Robert Davis Dinner Meeting Rhonda Larkin, Ben Hoksbergen; Redstone Arsenal Tour |
Last updated April 24, 2013
