Meeting History

2024-25

May 13, 2025 - Eddie Price, "Using AI for Genealogy."
April 8, 2025 - Reece Jones - Group Roots Tech Review.
March 11, 2025 - Marcia Herman-Giddens and Eliza Robertson: family stories. (Link to Presentation)
February 11, 2025 - Katy Rowe-Schurwanz (Family Tree DNA), "Ancestral Narratives using Y-DNA and mtDNA." (Link to Presentation)
January 14, 2025 - Jessica Conklin, "DNA For Genealogy 101." (Link to Presentation)
December 10, 2024 - Pencie Huneke and Larry Newlin - Family Stories.
November 12, 2024 - The Fearrington Story Corps for Genealogy Stories. See this link.
October 8, 2024 - Frank Jackalone, "Discovering My Italian Family Secrets."
September 10, 2024 - Diane L. Richardson, "Crowdsourcing." (Link to Presentation)

2023-24

April 9, 2024 - Roots Tech Review. (Link to Document)
March 12, 2024 - Margot Farris Brewer - Genealogy 101 - Part Two.
February 13, 2024 - Margot Farris Brewer - Genealogy 101 - Part One.
January 9, 2024 - cancelled due to weather.
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.
October 10, 2023, David M. McCorkle, "Finding and Understanding NC Land Grants." (Presentation handout)
September 12, 2023, Diane L. Richardson, "Researching 20th Century Ancestors."

2022-23

May 9, 2023, Swedish Genealogy (Scandinavian Genealogy Presentation, Scandinavian Genealogy Roots Tech Information).
April 13, 2023, Road Trip to Cane Creek Quaker Meeting.
March 14, 2023, Group Discussion, Review of Roots Tech Sessions attended by FGG members (Suggested Sessions). (Link to document)
February 24, 2023, David Morrow, "Patriots of Color in Chatham County."
January 10, 2023, Chatham County Library Genealogy Book Fair.
December 13, 2022, Marcia Herman-Giddens, "Genealogy Lessons Learned: the journey into my family's slave owning past in Alabama."
November 8, 2022, Five Generation Genealogy Chart.
October 11, 2022, Planning for the Future of the Fearrington Genealogy Group.
September 13, 2022, Diane L. Richardson, "Death Records by a Different Name." (Link to Presentation)

2021-22

April 12, 2022, Reece Jones , The 1950 Census.
March 9, 2022, Group Discussion, Review of Roots Tech Sessions attended by FGG members. (Link to Presentation)
February 8, 2022, Group Discussion, Preparing for Roots Tech 2022.
January 11, 2022, Jim Davis, "Finding and Using Land Records in Genealogical Research." (Link to Presentation)
November 9, 2021, Group Discussion, "Online trees, which Ones do you use?"
October 12, 2021, Jim Davis, “Chatham County Heritage and Genealogy” (Link to Presentation).
September 14, 2021, Diane L. Richardson, "25 Overlooked Genealogical Resources" (Link to Presentation).

2020-21

May 11, 2021 Eddie Price “Introduction to Family Book Creator.”
April 13, 2021 Roundtable, Recent genealogy activities of members.
March 9, 2021 Marilyn Racine, Family migrations.
February 9, 2021 Dav Robertson, Land records in western North Carolina.
January 12, 2021 Kay White and John Cocowitch, DNA family trees and tools.
December 8, 2020 Dav and Eliza Robertson, Christmas remembrance stories.
November 10, 2020 Marcia Herman-Giddens, Civil War era ancestors; Reece Jones, FamilySearch editing basics.
October 13, 2020 Vince Tollers, Census enumerations; Michael Manning, His eastern North Carolina family.
September 8, 2020 Robin Williams, Her Philadelphia families and auto racing in the 1920's.

2019-20

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)
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.
December 10, 2019 Holiday Party / Music of our Ancestors & Families.
November 12, 2019 Diane L. Richard, "18th and 19th Century Epidemics and Health." (Link to presentation)
October 8, 2019 Jim Davis "Going Digital with Genealogy." (Link to presentation)
September 10, 2019 Webinar titled, "Everyone has a story to tell."

2018-19

May 14, 2019 End of Season Celebration & Workshop: Future presentation topics.
April 9, 2019 Dav Robertson, member, "Letters: Lots and Lots of Letters!"
March 12, 2019 Workshop: Factors that brought our Ancestors to America.
February 12, 2019 Robin Williams, member, "Migration in a Circle-The Williams and Coffman Families."
January 8, 2019 Reece Jones, member & co-chair, "Loyalists During the Revolutionary War."
December 11, 2018 Holiday Party & Workshop: When your Ancestor becomes your friend .
November 13, 2018 Cathy Hinckley, "Using the FamilySearch.org Website."
October 9, 2018 Scott Hendrix, member, "Starting from Scratch."
September 11, 2018 Kim Smith "Harriet's Progeny: The Smith, Fitzgerald, Morphis, Kirby, and Toole Families."

2017-18

May 14, 2018 Chelsea Brewer, "Self-Publishing using LuLu."
May 9, 2018 Fort Bragg Field Trip.
April 10, 2018 Workshop to Plan 2018-2019 Programs.
March 13, 2018 Margo Fariss Brewer, "How to Write a Family Narrative Your Family Will Want to Read."
February 13, 2018 Reece Jones, Capturing names, dates, places, & relationships from Obituaries.
January 9, 2018 Sue Clark, Overview of her ancestor Isaac Shelby; his family, correspondence & heirlooms.
December 12, 2017 Holiday Party.
November 1, 2017 Richard, LeSesne, "DNA: The Expected, The Unexpected and The Deadly."
October 10, 2017 Jim Terry, "Using Newspapers to Tell the Family Story."
September 12, 2017 Monica Lazarus, member, "The Road to Relatives, and It's Ups and Downs."

2016-17

May 10-13, 2017 Field trip to National Genealogical Society Conference in Raleigh.
April 11, 2017 Connie Lapallo, Colonial Jamestown's women and children.
March 14, 2017 Dene Adams and Susan Strong, members "Searching for their respective ancestors."
February 14, 2017 Reece Jones, member - Workshop on Familysearch.org's Family Tree tool.
January 10, 2017 Cancelled due to icy roads.
December 13, 2016 Holiday Party and Software Demonstrations.
November 1, 2016 Candy Ruziecki, "Using the DAR Website for Research."
October 11, 2016 Linda Grimm, member - Land Records.
September 13, 2016 Bob & Nancy Oram, members "The Road to Relatives, and Its Ups and Downs."

2015-16

May 10, 2016 Video Webinar-Using Social Media in the Pursuit of Family History.
April 12, 2016 Group Exercise - Fill in the Gaps, (Discuss own 5 Generation Chart).
March 8, 2016 Mary McArdle, member "Genetic Genealogy The Next Frontier is Here" and DNA Terms.
February 9, 2016. Diane L. Richard, "Calling in the Professional Genealogist."
January 12, 2016 Reece Jones. Search and Search Again: Searching on the Internet.
December 8, 2015 Holiday party, no formal program.
November 10, 2015 Jennifer Blomberg from the State Archives - Conservation for genealogy material.
October 13, 2015 Kay White, member. "Using Find-A-Grave and Three Family Tales."
September 8, 2015 Harry Roegner "Reflections on His Ancestor, Gerrit Van Duyn."

2014-15

July 8, 2015 UNC Wilson Special Collection Library in Chapel Hill field trip.
May 12, 2015 Dav Robertson, "Lt. Col. John Thomas Jones, 26th NC: Researching a Civil War tragedy."
April 14, 2015 Stephen Fletcher, UNC Photograph Archivist "How to date your old photographs."
March 10, 2015 Harriet Garrett, "Bits & pieces of history."
February 10, 2015 Reece Jones, "Results of the member Technology survey."
January 13, 2015 Vince Tollers, "Using church records in genealogy research."
December 9, 2014 "Holiday party and sharing stories of family artifacts."
November 11, 2014 Walter Coleshill, "Idle ancestry thoughts from an idle ancient fellow."
October 14, 2014 Candy Ruziecki "How to make a genealogy book" & June Horton, "Five Generation trees."
Ancestry wiki-cemetery records http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cemetery_Records.
Cyndi's list cemeteries http://www.cyndislist.com/cemeteries/. and obituaries http://www.cyndislist.com/obituaries/.
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/.
September 9, 2014 Beverly Wiggins & Reece Jones. "Cemeteries & obituaries in Chatham county."

2013-14

June 10, 2014 Field trip to Olivia Raney Local History Library in Raleigh.
April 8, 2014 Linda Grimm & Michael McArdle, "The potential of Google Earth in Genealogy."
March 11, 2014 Tom Magnuson, “Moving into the Carolina backcountry: Transportation in the Carolinas & VA 1585-1785."
February 11, 2014 Jennifer Farley, "The Genealogy and history of the Duke family."
January 7, 2014 Susan Soleil, "Bookbinding and book restoration."
December 12, 2013 "Holiday party and sharing stories of family artifacts."
November 12, 2013 Reece Jones, Webinar from RootsTech 2013. “Researching family online.”
October 8, 2013 Richard Ellington, "My family history in Chatham County."
September 9, 2013 Jim Newman, "Adoption records in his family history."

2012-13

July 9, 2013 State Archives in Raleigh field trip.
April 13, 2013 Glenn Lazarus, "Local North Carolina history."
March 3, 2013 Marilyn and Charles Racine, "Researching their Families."
February 2, 2013 Hands-on workshop on genealogy software and websites.
January 13, 2013 Reece Jones and Mary McArdle, "Recordkeeping."
December 12, 2012 Margo Brewer, "Research methods in Genealogy."
November 11, 2012 Dawn Ellis, "DNA Testing."
October 10, 2012 June Horton, "Research on the Horton Family."
September 9, 2012 Round robin of research interests of members.
August 8, 2012 Ruth Muller, "Lineage Societies."
March 3, 2012 Susan Strong, "Family research in New England."
February 2, 2012 Mary McArdle, "Genealogical proof shown in Nolan family Research."

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