THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News, Edition8 February 2018 |
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GFO’s 2018 Elections Call for Candidates!The following positions are available for new candidates this coming fiscal year:
Interested in taking on one of these roles? Just send an email to president@gfo.org today! We need candidates candidates candidates. And there is on-the-job training available for all of these positions. These people help keep the GFO going in so many ways. Just curious?? Send a note to Laurel Smith at president@gfo.org for more information! Insider Editors NeededWe also need two or three people to help take over editing and publication of the Insider this summer. This is our monthly newsletter and our fearless editor is stepping down this summer. Interested in helping out? Email Jackie Olson at insider@gfo.org. |
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?? We’d love to have you as a GFO Member! |
Genealogical Problem Solvers (GPS), Feb 17th, 9:30 – 11:30amThe keys to breaking through one person’s brick wall might provide YOU with the very clues you need to break through yours. February’s GPS meeting is all about finding the elusive Irish Cullens, ancestors of GFO member Vince Patton. Vince is searching for his great-great-grandfather Terence Cullen’s origin and family in Ireland before immigrating around 1850 to Massachusetts. Want to submit your own problem to our experts? Send a brief description of the problem to gps@gfo.org. The team will follow-up with you to start the search! This meeting is OPEN & FREE TO THE PUBLIC. Held at the GFO Library. |
Survey results needed by February 15th! Please hurry! |
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GFO’s Illinois SIG is back on, starting Feb 10th, 9:30 – 11:30amThis group, which has not met officially for some time, is resurrected! We need your help to decide the geographic focus for the group: Upper Mid-West? Great Lake States? Click the survey link above. If you would like more information about this group, or have questions, you may contact Lynn at larossing@gmail.com. |
Don’t Miss GFO’s Open House, March 3rd – 11th |
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| Click for the Flyer and schedule HERE. Click the picture above for a video.
Complete printed schedules with class descriptions are available at the library’s reception desk by the front door. They are also online on our calendar. |
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon – Feb 11th |
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TOPIC: MAXIMIZING THE TREASURES WHEN: Sunday, February 11th, at 1pm. Doors open at 12:30pm with time for conversation and sharing. Please come early if you would like help from other genealogists. WHERE: Congregation Ahavath Achim 3225 SW Barbur Blvd, Portland, OR 97239 (map) HOW: Free to JGSO members, with a $5 donation requested of non-members. WHO: Robinn Magid JRI-Poland Board Member |
New Grants Committee: Seeking to Empower GFO! |
Make a difference by joining GFO’s Grant Committee.Are you interested in helping to create empowering possibilities for GFO’s work? GFO has recently launched a grants committee and we need more help! We are looking for volunteers to…
Do you have any of these skills and are you willing to give some of your time? Grant or other technical writing, analysis, research experience, and some familiarity with Excel are a plus although not required. Have questions, want to chat about it, or need more info? Please contact Liz Stepp at give@gfo.org! |
Book Reviewers Needed… |
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Come on in! Choose a good book! Sign the clip board next to the books, take a Book Review sheet, read your book, write your review, email to: bookreviews@gfo.org, and presto you are done. That was easy wasn’t it.? Questions: email or call Joan Galles: bookreviews@gfo.org or 503-252-2807.
Thanks, Joan Galles |
This Week at the GFO… |
FRIDAY, February 9thMexican Group 11:30am – 1:30pm Finding your Hispanic ancestors from Mexico, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California. This Special Interest Group (SIG) pertains specifically to Mexican ancestors from Mexico and the American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California). Beginning and intermediate researchers are very welcome. Some subjects will include online parish records, Hispanic genealogy societies, Family History Library/FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com, solving genealogical problems, methodology of organizing your research, etc. Of course this group will also be about sharing our research experiences, and having fun. If you know of any other people interested in Hispanic genealogy tell them about the up and coming group. They don’t have to be a GFO member to participate. For questions or comments, please email Vince at sw@gfo.org. SATURDAY, February 10thIllinois Group 9:30 – 11:30am This group, which has not met officially for some time, is resurrected! Lynn Rossing (with assistance from Duane Funk) has agreed to serve as the group’s facilitator. Participants at the first meeting will help decide the geographic focus for the group: Upper Mid-West? Great Lake States? And there will be a short presentation by Duane Funk on IRAD (Illinois Regional Archive Depositaries). If you would like more information about this group, or have questions, you may contact Lynn at larossing@gmail.com. Writers’ Forum 1 – 3pm Purpose: This is a peer group of genealogists, who meet to learn about writing and to share our writing with each other. Peggy Baldwin facilitates this group and can be reached at peggyrbaldwin@gmail.com or 503-916-9410. Meetings: September through May, second Saturday of each month, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in the GFO Library. SUNDAY, February 11thMaps Work Party 9am – noon We are planning to continue working on this project on the second Sunday of the month from 9:00 am until noon or whenever. Come when you can. Doris Cruickshank, map project coordinator. WEDNESDAY, February 14thEarly Closure for Valentine’s Day The GFO Library will close at 5pm this date. See you again on Thursday, Feb 15th, at 9:30am! |