Meeting History
2023-24
September 12, 2023, Diane L. Richardson, "Researching 20th Century Ancestors"
October 10, 2023, David M. McCorkle, "Finding and Understanding NC Land Grants" (Presentation handout)
November 14, 2023, Larry Newlin, Quaker Ancestors: from England to Ireland to Pennsylvania and the late 1600's. Ultimately migrating to NC to establish the towns of Snow Camp and Saxapahaw.
January 9, 2024 - cancelled due to weather
2022-23
September 13, 2022, Diane L. Richardson, "Death Records by a Different Name" (Link to Presentation)
October 11, 2022, Planning for the Future of the Fearrington Genealogy Group
November 8, 2022, Five Generation Genealogy Chart
December 13, 2022, Marcia Herman-Giddens, "Genealogy Lessons Learned: the journey into my family's slave owning past in Alabama"
January 10, 2023, Chatham County Library Genealogy Book Fair
February 24, 2023, David Morrow, "Patriots of Color in Chatham County"
March 14, 2023, Group Discussion, Review of Roots Tech Sessions attended by FGG members (Suggested Sessions)
April 13, 2023, Road Trip to Cane Creek Quaker Meeting
May 9, 2023, Swedish Genealogy Scandinavian Genealogy Presentation Scandinavian Genealogy Roots Tech Presentations
2021-22
September 14, 2021, Diane L. Richardson, "25 Overlooked Genealogical Resources" (Link to Presentation)
October 12, 2021, Jim Davis, “Chatham County Heritage and Genealogy” (Link to Presentation)
November 9, 2021, Group Discussion, "Online trees, which Ones do you use?"
January 11, 2022, Jim Davis, "Finding and Using Land Records in Genealogical Research" (Link to Presentation)
February 8, 2022, Group Discussion, Preparing for Roots Tech 2022
March 9, 2022, Group Discussion, Review of Roots Tech Sessions attended by FGG members
April 12, 2022, Reece Jones , The 1950 Census
2020-21
September 8, 2020 Robin Williams, Her Philadelphia families and auto racing in the 1920's
October 13, 2020 Vince Tollers, Census enumerations; Michael Manning, His eastern North Carolina family.
November 10, 2020 Marcia Herman-Giddens, Civil War era ancestors; Reece Jones, FamilySearch editing basics
December 8, 2020 Dav and Eliza Robertson, Christmas remembrance stories
January 12, 2021 Kay White and John Cocowitch, DNA family trees and tools
February9, 2021 Dav Robertson, Land records in western North Carolina
March 9, 2021 Marilyn Racine, Family migrations
April 13, 2021 Roundtable, Recent genealogy activities of members
May 11, 2021 Eddie Price “Introduction to Family Book Creator”
2019-20
September 10, 2019 Webinar titled, "Everyone has a story to tell."
October 8, 2019 Jim Davis "Going Digital with Genealogy" (Link to presentation)
November 12, 2019 Diane L. Richard, "18th and 19th Century Epidemics and Health" (Link to presentation)
December 10, 2019 Holiday Party / Music of our Ancestors & Families
January 14, 2020 Vince Tollers "A Model for Writing a Readable Family History" (link to presentation) “The Tollers From Germany to Superior (1881-1952)" (link to Tollers Family History ). Also by Vince - Researching Religious Records.
February 11, 2020 "The 2020 Census and the Work of the Complete Count Committee" by Courtney Cooper-Lewter. (view Presentation) (Informational Copy of 2020 Census Questionnaire)
2018-19
September 11, 2018 Kim Smith "Harriet's Progeny: The Smith, Fitzgerald, Morphis, Kirby, and Toole Families"
October 9, 2018 Scott Hendrix, member, "Starting from Scratch"
November 13, 2018 Cathy Hinckley, "Using the FamilySearch.org Website"
December 11, 2018 Holiday Party & Workshop: When your Ancestor becomes your friend
January 8, 2019 Reece Jones, member & co-chair, "Loyalists During the Revolutionary War"
February 12, 2019 Robin Williams, member, "Migration in a Circle-The Williams and Coffman Families"
March 12, 2019 Workshop: Factors that brought our Ancestors to America
April 9, 2019 Dav Robertson, member, "Letters: Lots and Lots of Letters!"
May 14, 2019 End of Season Celebration & Workshop: Future presentation topics
2017-18
September 12, 2017 Monica Lazarus, member, "The Road to Relatives, and It's Ups and Downs"
October 10, 2017 Jim Terry, "Using Newspapers to Tell the Family Story"
November 1, 2017 Richard, LeSesne, "DNA: The Expected, The Unexpected and The Deadly"
December 12, 2017 Holiday Party
January 9, 2018 Sue Clark, Overview of her ancestor Isaac Shelby; his family, correspondence & heirlooms
February 13, 2018 Reece Jones, Capturing names, dates, places, & relationships from Obituaries
March 13, 2018 Margo Fariss Brewer, "How to Write a Family Narrative Your Family Will Want to Read"
April 10, 2018 Worshop to Plan 2018-2019 Programs
May 9, 2018 Fort Bragg Field Trip
May 14, 2018 Chelsea Brewer, "Self-Publishing using LuLu"
2016-17
September 13, 2016 Bob & Nancy Oram, members "The Road to Relatives, and It's Ups and Downs"
October 11, 2016 Linda Grimm, member - Land Records
November 1, 2016 Candy Ruziecki, "Using the DAR Website for Research"
December 13, 2016 Holiday Party and Software Demonstrations
January 10, 2017 Cancelled due to icy roads
February 14, 2017 Reece Jones, member - Workshop on Familysearch.org's Family Tree tool
March 14, 2017 Dene Adams and Susan Strong, members "Searching for their respective ancestors"
April 11, 2017 Connie Lapallo, Colonial Jamestown's women and children
May 10-13, 2017 Field trip to National Genealogical Society Conference in Raleigh
2015-16
September 8, 2015 Harry Roegner "Reflections on His Ancestor, Gerrit Van Duyn"
October 13, 2015 Kay White, member. "Using Find-A-Grave and Three Family Tales"
November 10, 2015 Jennifer Blomberg from the State Archives - Conservation for genealogy material
December 8, 2015 Holiday party, no formal program
January 12, 2016 Reece Jones. Search and Search Again: Searching on the Internet
February 9, 2016. Diane L. Richard, "Calling in the Professional Genealogist"
March 8, 2016 Mary McArdle, member "Genetic Genealogy The Next Frontier is Here" and DNA Terms
April 12, 2016 Group Exercise - Fill in the Gaps, (Discuss own 5 Generation Chart)
May 10, 2016 Video Webinar-Using Social Media in the Pursuit of Family History
2014-15
September 9, 2014 Beverly Wiggins & Reece Jones. "Cemeteries & obituaries in Chatham county"
Cyndi's list cemeteries http://www.cyndislist.com/cemeteries/. and obituaries http://www.cyndislist.com/obituaries/.
Ancestry wiki-cemetery records http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cemetery_Records.
Family Search wiki-cemeteries or obituaries https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Cemeteries.
US Genweb http://usgenweb.org/. and Newspaper archive sites http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/.
October 14, 2014 Candy Ruziecki "How to make a genealogy book" & June Horton, "Five Generation trees"
November 11, 2014 Walter Coleshill, "Idle ancestry thoughts from an idle ancient fellow"
December 9, 2014 "Holiday party and sharing stories of family artifacts"
January 13, 2015 Vince Tollers, "Using church records in genealogy research"
February 10, 2015 Reece Jones, Results of the member Technology survery"
March 10, 2015 Harriet Garrett, "Bits & pieces of history"
April 14, 2015 Stephen Fletcher, UNC Photograph Archivist "How to date your old photographs"
May 12, 2015 Dav Robertson, "Lt. Col. John Thomas Jones, 26th NC: Researching a Civil War tragedy"
July 8, 2015 UNC Wilson Special Collection Library in Chapel Hill field trip
2013-14
September 9, 2013 Jim Newman, "Adoption records in his family history"
October 8, 2013 Richard Ellington, "My family history in Chatham County"
November 12, 2013 Reece Jones, Webinar from RootsTech 2013. “Researching family online”
December 12, 2013 "Holiday party and sharing stories of family artifacts"
January 7, 2014 Susan Soleil, "Bookbinding and book restoration"
February 11, 2014 Jennifer Farley, "The Genealogy and history of the Duke family"
March 11, 2014 Tom Magnuson, “Moving into the Carolina backcountry: Transportation in the Carolinas & VA 1585-1785"
April 8, 2014 Linda Grimm & Michael McArdle, "The potential of Google Earth in Genealogy"
June 10, 2014 Field trip to Olivia Raney Local History Library in Raleigh
2012-13
February 2, 2012 Mary McArdle, "Genealogical proof shown in Nolan family Research"
March 3, 2012 Susan Strong, "Family research in New England"
August 8, 2012 Ruth Muller, "Lineage Societies."
September 9, 2012 Round robin of research interests of members
October 10, 2012 June Horton, "Research on the Horton Family"
November 11, 2012 Dawn Ellis, "DNA Testing"
December 12, 2012 Margo Brewer, "Research methods in Genealogy"
January 13, 2013 Reece Jones and Mary McArdle, "Recordkeeping"
February 2, 2013 Hands-on workshop on genealogy software and websites
March 3, 2013 Marilyn and Charles Racine, "Researching their Families"
April 13, 2013 Glenn Lazarus, "Local North Carolina history."
July 9, 2013 State Archives in Raleigh field trip