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.

 

April 2013

Board Meeting

Day: Monday, April 8
Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Huntsville Public Library, Rooms AB

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.

Location: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Auditorium

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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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. Mrs. Brammell is currently the Alabama State Society President for Colonial Dames XVII Century and First Vice Regent of the Maple Hill Chapter, NSDAR


  

 

 

   Spring Seminar featuring Robert Davis   TVGS Meeting   Rhonda and Ben   Group at Redstone Arsenal  
        Spring Seminar Featuring Robert Davis                                  Dinner Meeting                                                                                  Rhonda Larkin, Ben Hoksbergen;   Redstone Arsenal Tour    

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