"Tracing Our Roots" Newsletter Archive (A monthly genealogy newsletter written by the late Brenda Kellow, dec'd, for the Plano Star Courier newspaper. We've included all the ones we could recover.)
This Friday night is the first in a series of genealogy library lock-ins at Gladys Harrington Library, 1501 East 18th Street in Plano. Sponsored by Genealogy Friends and the library, participants are asked to register at 5:30 p.m. When the library officially closes at 6 p.m., the gene searchers will be locked in until the hour before midnight. For a donation of $10, partakers will receive instruction in a myriad of topics. Pizza supper is an additional $4. Register online at www.rootsweb.com/~txgfpl or call Janice at 972-669-1706. Pre-registration is encouraged. GenFriends is a 501 [c] [3] IRS certified non-profit corporation.
Special tours include a general library tour and an introduction to genealogy reference material. Individual one on one consultation with one of the professionals are also planned. Instruction in using the general tools include the card catalog, interlibrary loan, genealogy software demonstrations, microfilm, CD-ROM computers, Internet computers with access to FamilySearch.org, Ancestry Plus, and the Internet. Later in the evening, enjoy popcorn and watch the 90-minute video on using Ancestry.com.
If you plan on using Internet computers or wish to take the Internet or computer lab classes, please register for a Plano library card and be registered to use the library's Internet computers before the lock-in. This can be done at the circulation desk of any Plano library.
NEW ITEMS IN THE HARRINGTON LIBRARY:
* Index to the Choctaw & Mississippi Choctaw rolls
* Telling our stories: Grayson County reminiscences: the first 150 years
* The Plano book telephone directory, 2003
* The Family Tree guidebook to Europe: your passport to tracing your genealogy across Europe
* Before memories fade: an archival index of Comanche County, Texas World War II veterans
* Genealogical research in Ohio, 2nd edition
* The beginner s guide to using tax lists
* The diary of Bert Nichols, 1895
* An abstract of North Carolina wills from about 1760 to about 1800
* Collin County, Texas voter registration index, 1867
* Intestates and others from the Orphans Court books of Monmouth County, N.J., 1785-1906
AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY AND GENEALOGY CONFERENCE
The Friends of the Oklahoma Historical Society Archives is sponsoring The Native American History and Genealogy Conference on March 12 and 13, 2004 at the Lawton Public Library, 110 SW Fourth Street in Lawton, Oklahoma, 73501. March 13th s sessions will be held at the Center for Creative Living, 3501 F Street, from 8:30 till 4:00. Registration is $25 until March 1, but becomes $35 thereafter. Lunch will be served consisting of traditional Native American food. For a brochure and registration form, contact the Friends of OHS Archives, P.O. Box 18781, Oklahoma City, OK 73154-0781. Include an SASE. The Web site is www.cityof.lawton.ok.us/library/conference.htm. Rooms are reserved at the Ramada Inn, 601 2nd Street, in Lawton for a special rate of $40 made before March 1st. The Conference Chair is Paul Follett, pfollett@cityof.lawton.ok.us.
It will feature sessions by 17 noted historical and genealogical lecturers specializing in Native American history and family research, with a focus on Southern Plains tribes. Topics include the Comanche Code Talkers, Quanah and the Texas Parkers, Life of Quanah Parker, Battle of the Washita, Researching Southern Plains Ancestors, Researching Five Civilized Tribes Ancestors, Comanche History, Saynday and Kiowa Values, Riverside Indian School, Anadarko history, Nineteenth Century Fort Sill, Indian Police and Scouts, Fort Sill Apache History, Chickasaw Family History and The Battle of Ackia, and Records.
Brenda Kellow, dec'd, Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Instructor, had a Bachelor s Degree in history and taught genealogy courses at the local Community College and computer genealogy at the University.
