A New Year, Important Date Changes

Greetings, everyone,

MOST IMPORTANT:  Do I have your attention?  In January and February our regular 3^rd Monday meeting falls on a holiday.  This happened last year and I totally forgot about it.  Our meetings for those two months only will be on the 4^th Monday.  MARK YOUR CALENDARS.  JAN 22 AND FEB 26!!!!  Do it now---mark your calendar.  No meeting Jan 12 as announced at our meeting.

In January our Genies meeting is the only event scheduled.  WGS does not meet in January. 

We had a terrific Genies meeting in December.  We talked about our goals for next year.  Three areas really stood out. 

1.      Getting organized

2.      Building family trees online or on personal software

3.      Learning about chromosomes/DNA

These are all big topics and we will focus on them this year.  

Monday, January 22:  Our January 22^nd meeting will focus on organization.  We work on this all the time and even old-timers struggle with keeping organized.  Did I say “big topic”?  We’ll need to touch on organizing time, space, paper files, electronic files, information about genealogy, and I could go on.  Let me know what is most important or urgent to you.  Either a comment on the blog or an email to ferndalegenies at gmail will help.  If you use an anonymous comment, please sign your first name.

Friday, February 9 12:30-4:  Reservation only.  I am proposing a combination 1-hour Getting Started for people who haven’t had an intro from me or who want a refresher.  Plus a few hours of hands-on “Building Family Trees” for anyone interested. I need to know who is coming so I can get enough helpers.  Also, if you want this but can’t come on that day, let me know so we can make arrangements.  Again, email or comment if you are interested.

Monday, February 26:  Regular monthly Genies meeting.  Topic: to be determined

Monday, March 19:  Many of you are testing DNA for the first time or diving deeper into your results.  By our March 19^th meeting most should have results for yourselves or additional family members.  For this meeting we’ll have short DNA intro and long Q&A.  Something for everyone.  In the meantime, start with the DNA pages on the left sidebar of the Genies blog.  Also check out the DNA Bibliography page there.  If you need help, ask me where you should start. 

Along the way we will touch on the other suggested areas:

1.      Learn basic research

2.      Create a Christmas gift showing ancestors

3.      Create short stories

4.      Immigration

Feel free to comment or email other areas that you are working on this year.  Specific questions are most helpful.  Also, I am open to special interest groups meeting in addition to our monthly Genies meeting.  Take a look at your goals and dreams and let’s tackle them together.

Welcome to 2018 from the Ferndale Genies!