Family historians can hone skills at upcoming statewide meetings
Family historians can hone skills at upcoming statewide meetings

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By Sharon Burns

Published: March 13, 2008

Genealogical society meetings across the state this month will provide tips and techniques to help genealogists and family historians improve their research skills.

•The Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Lawton Public Library, 110 SW Fourth, Lawton. Phyllis Young, society vice president and program chairman, will provide steps to take in preparing your manuscript for publication. She will also offer suggestions on types of family details to include and how to print your family history.

If the wealth of information you have uncovered during your research is not published, those stories and collections may perish. Printed family histories make a memorable gift to children and grandchildren and to more distant, but shared, relatives.

The meeting is open to the public. For more information, send e-mail to Phyllis Young at payoung@lcisp.com or go online to www.sirinet.net/~lgarris/swogs.

•The Tulsa Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at 9136 E 31st St. in Briar Village Shopping Center, Tulsa. Charlotte Lucus will present "Petticoat Spies of the Civil War.” The meeting will be preceded by a beginners' genealogy class at 6 p.m. For more information, call Judy Strout at (918) 627-4224 or go online to www.tulsagenealogy.org.

•The Cleveland County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the CSBI classroom, 1119 E Main, Norman. Donna Waddle, director of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Oklahoma City Family History Center, will discuss "The Changing Face of LDS Family History Centers and the LDS Web Site.” Waddle will demonstrate resources at Family History Centers as well as the project of indexing and processing microfilm in Salt Lake City.

The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call the CCGS Library at 701-2100 between 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays, e-mail CCGS@csi.org or go online to www.rootsweb.com/~okccogs.

•The Home and Community Education Genealogy Group will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Oklahoma History Center board room, 2401 N Laird Ave. Billie Stone Fogarty, Oklahoma Genealogical Society president, will present "Land Runs, Lotteries and Homesteading in Oklahoma.”

The program will highlight the history of Oklahoma and how it attracted settlers from around the world. The different eras of settlement will be reviewed with emphasis on American Indian treaties that affected the shape of the early tribal lands and other factors that led to land openings to non-Indian settlers.

The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call Billie Fogarty at 286-1190.

If you have a question, event, idea or an experience you wish to share, send e-mail to Sharon Burns at sburns@oklahoman.com.

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