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What's Coming up?
Wednesday, 11th WWCGS Board Meeting (members invited to attend)
Livonia Civic Center Library, Michigan Room
6:30pm Board Meeting Called to Order
Saturday, 14th WWCGS Field Trip to State of Michigan Archives
(Research Hours 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM)
For thiose wishing to carpool for the drive to Lansing meet at the Livonia Senior Center at 8:30 AM. Carpool drivers will depart for drive back to Livonia at 4:00 PM.
Monday, 16th WWCGS General Membership Meeting (open to the public)
Livonia Senior Center, 15218 Farmington Road
5:00pm Setup: Volunteers needed to help arrange tables & chairs
5:30pm Early Bird Special: Bring your dinner & engage with members
6:15pm Presentation & Round Table Discussion led by Lisa Curlew
Topic: Hidden Treasures: City Directories
7:30pm Featured Speaker: Jessica Harden, Archivist,
Archives of the State of Michigan
Topic: Demystifying Michigan Court Records
"Records from Michigan’s court system can contain a goldmine of genealogical information, but they can also be frustrating to research. Attendees will walk away from this program with a better understanding of what types of cases were heard in what court, the types of documents contained in court files, where records are held, and how to find case numbers related to a given name. The program will include also include a walk-through example."
November 2017
Wednesday, 8th WWCGS Board Meeting (members invited to attend)
Livonia Civic Center Library, Michigan Room
6:30pm Board Meeting Called to Order
Monday, 20th WWCGS General Membership Meeting (open to the public)
Livonia Senior Center, 15218 Farmington Road
5:00pm Setup: Volunteers needed to help arrange tables & chairs
5:30pm Early Bird Special: Bring your dinner & engage with members
6:15pm Presentation & Round Table Discussion led by Steve Schwartz
Topic: Census Research & Tracking Your Discoveries
7:30pm Featured Speaker: James Sims, PhD Biochemisty,
Retired Health Science Center Administrator
Topic: I Have DNA Results - What comes next?
"Dr. Sims' presentation will focus on the effective use of the web sites provided by DNA testing vendors to advance a genealogy project. The web sites of 23AndMe, Ancestry DNA and Family Tree DNA are discussed."
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Want to join the WWCGS? It's easy. Just download the form via the link below, complete & sign the form, then return it along with your annual dues payment.
If you are already a member but have not renewed your membership yet for 2017-2018, you must do so soon before the grace period expires and you lose your membership rights including access to the members-only sections of this website. To renew your membership simply download the form via the link below, complete & sign the form, and return it along with your annual dues payment.
Ways to Get Involved
Want to become more involved with your Society? Here are some ways that you can help make your WWCGS better for everyone:
1) Become a part of the Hospitality Committee by:
(a) signing up to be one of two or three members who provide the break-time snacks for a given monthly General Membership Meeting. Action Step: Contact one of the Hospitality Committee Co-Chairs Marge Najarian or Charlotte Neary.
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(b) volunteering to help arrange tables and chairs prior to a monthly General Membership Meeting. Action Step: Simply show up at the Livonia Senior Center about 5PM on the day of a scheduled Monday membership meeting and seek out Hospitality Committee Logistics Coordinator Raul Rodriguez.
2) Attend a monthly board meeting and learn about the planning and work that goes into making your Society what it is. Action Step: Just show up at the Livonia Civic Center Library by 6:30pm on the date of a scheduled board meeting (usually the 2nd Wednesday of the month).
3) Join the Cemetery Committee and help with one of its ongoing projects of canvassing, transcribing and/or photographing area cemetery grave markers. Action Step: Contact the Cemetery Committee Chair John Mills.
4) Contribute a family history research experience, a special family history photograph, or an interesting story from your family history for publication in the WWCGS newsletter. Action step: Contact Newsletter Chair Harvey DeWitt.
5) Join the Query Management Team and help respond to or redirect inquiries received by the Society. Action step: Contact President Mary Hazlett.
6) Volunteer as an indexer. There currently are two active indexing projects, each being conducted in conjunction with the Livonia Civic Center Library. One project involves indexing engagement and marriage notices that have appeared in the Livonia Observer newspaper. The newspapers are on microfilm and would require a time commitment of about two hours per work session using a microfilm reader at the Library. There is no minimum nor maximum number of work sessions for which you need to volunteer. The other active project involves creating surname only indices for genealogical books at the Library for which no such index exists. This work may be done at home. Action step for either project: Contact WWCGS Librarian Todd Bredin or send an email to info@wwcgs.org with “Library Volunteer” in the subject line.
7) Volunteering for a Roundtable. This involves simply sharing a personal research story, a brickwall find, or possibly something new you found on a website. An experience shared with others for 20 minutes or more will undoubtively spark questions and comments and make for a very good round table discussion. Examples: Mary Hazlett is going to talk about the WWCGS wewbsite in September. In November, Steve Schwartz will be sharing his experiences with census research and how he tracks all the discoveries he's found. Action step: Contact President Mary Hazlett to discuss your ideas.
