Our speaker at the November 13 Meeting

Monthly Meeting
November 13, 2010
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
Speaker: Hal Horrocks
Preserving Your Heirlooms and Cemeteries: What They Tell Us

How does one decide what to save, give away, or toss? Learn how to develop a preservation strategy and which methods and tools to use.

Have you ever wandered through a cemetery and wondered about the meanings for the designs carved on the old gravestones? Learn the proper etiquette when exploring and conducting research in a cemetery.

I'd better get back to work

I am back from my summer in Nebraska. I had only planned on being gone for two months but that dragged on to almost four months. My online time was limited to only about 2 hours a day so I certainly didn't spend much of it doing SDGS stuff.

A lot has happened at SDGS during my stay in the hinterlands.

There is a major change coming concerning the people who come to the Rootsmagic Users Group before each monthly meeting.

I don't know if the change in the monthly meeting schedule has been promulgated, but you will get it, unofficially, right here.

Effective with the February meeting we will start the regular meetings at 10 A.M. and be finished by 1 P.M.

That means that the RootsMagic Users Group will not be held before each meeting. We are going to have to come up with some other time and place.

I am considering changing to meeting at the SDGS library at 7347 Ronson Rd, Suite O. That will be a pain for you folks that live in the East County. However it is pretty easy to get to the library.

As for meeting time I am looking at the 4th Saturday of the month. Our monthly meeting is on the 2nd Saturday and several of us go to the CGSSD meeting on the 3rd Saturday. There is a Senior Computer Users group that meets in Mission Beach on the 1st Saturday, I think. I don't know of anything on the 4th Saturday.

I chose Saturday as there is not a lot happening at the SDGS library on Saturday and the freeway traffic is usually lighter than during the week.

Go ahead and post any comments here. I will also discuss this at our November 13 monthly meeting.

This Week at the Library 8 August - 14 August 2010

Wednesday 11 August 10 A.M. - Noon - Computer Basics - Mac Users
6:30 P.M. - 8 P.M. - Board of Directors Meeting

Thursday 12 August 10 A.M. - 3 P.M. - Library Open to the Public

Saturday 14 August 10 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. - Basic Genealogy Class - Census Records
10 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. - RootsMagic Users Group
Noon - 2 P.M. - Monthly Meeting - Speaker Chris Hansen - Topics 1. U.S. Military Records and Uniforms, 2. U.S. Migration Patterns from Colonial Times through WW II

This Week at the Library 1 August - 7 August 2010

Monday 2 August 10 A.M. - Noon - Writer's Group

Wednesday 4 August 10 A.M. - Noon - Class - Land/Homestead Act

Thursday 5 August 10 A.M. - 3 P.M. - Library Open to the Public

Saturday 7 August 10 A.M. - Noon - Family Treemaker Users Group

Roommates Needed for SLC Trip

Are you thinking of going to the SDGS Research trip in Salt Lake City this October, but hesitate because you don't have a roommate to share the costs?
Two members, one a man and the other a woman, have asked to be matched up with a roommate for the trip. If you are interested in signing on as a roommate, please let Kristeen McCollough know as soon as possible. She can be reached by email at kristeenealogy@cox.net or call 619.820.2552.

This Week at the Library 11 July - 17 July 2010

Wednesday 14 July 10 A.M. to Noon - Computer Basics - Printer controls

Thursday 15 July 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. - Library Open to the Public

This Week at the Library 4 July - 10 July 2010

Sunday 4 July - HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Monday 5 July 10 A.M. - Noon - Writer's Group

Wednesday 7 July 10 A.M. - Noon - Basic Genealogy Class - County Histories
6:30 P.M. - 8 P.M. - Board of Directors Meeting

Thursday 8 July 10 A.M. - 3 P.M. - Library Open to the Public

Saturday 10 July 10 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. - Genealogy Basics Class
10 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. - Rootsmagic Users Group
Noon - 2 P.M. - Monthly Meeting - Speaker - Gena Philibert Ortega: Copyright, Plagiarism and Privacy