SNI Newsletter February 2021

IGS Monthly Meetings via Zoom for 2021

We hope this finds everyone well and healthy. We are keeping those that have lost loved ones in our thoughts and send comfort and strength to them. It has been a difficult year.

We have lost some members of our IGS community who supported and contributed to the society. Barbara (Bobbie) Huff attended our meetings and it was always a joy to see her smiling face and hear her memories of people that came before us. Rick Jemison was another fixture at our meetings, offering help whenever or however he could. Norma and Diane Kennedy and Cindy Mohr attended our meetings and were interested in genealogy. They all will be missed! Their memory and good intentions will live on in us and that we find comfort in.

We have decided to do our monthly meetings via Zoom until it becomes safe for everyone to gather again. The zoom meetings will be a learning experience for all of us but we wanted to continue with our monthly meetings of learning genealogy and of course we missed everyone!

Our first IGS Monthly Meeting will be held on March 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm via zoom. The IGS website (www.iroquoisgenealogysociety.org) has been updated with new material. Our first meeting will be an overview of the IGS website showing our new additional records. Wallace Ward  will present this material. He maintains our website and scans many documents to upload to the website. It is a task that takes much hard work and time. We are very grateful to Wally and his hard work for us. Our first meeting will also include a Genealogy 101 presentation by Leatha Jimerson. It will be a ‘how to get started’ in your genealogy research.

We will keep you posted on our upcoming meetings for 2021.

We are also on Facebook: Iroquois Genealogy Society.

Please stay safe and healthy!

Celebrating the Legacy of our Iroquois Ancestors

The first meeting of the Iroquois Genealogy Society for 2019 will occur:

When: March 14, 2019 at 6 pm

Where: Allegany Community Center MPR room on the Allegany Territory.

The meeting will introduce our new website: iroquoisgenealogysociety.org.  The website is a wealth of genealogy resources such as documents, pictures and maps. We will be showing you how to navigate the site so that you can become familiar with it and refer to it when doing your research.

We will also have on hand; books that you can look at that will give you an idea what the book entails, handouts that you can take home to start documenting your family history/genealogy and a few maps. We will get you started in your research and then you can continue by finding out how your ancestors lived, where they went to school, how they dressed.

We hope to spark in you the interest in finding out more about your family history and celebrating their lives. It’s important as a people to learn about our ancestors to give us a sense of identity and to honor them.

Prior to our formal meeting we will have a potluck dinner (6-6:30pm). Please bring a dish to pass. Bring a friend, all are welcome!

Feel free to bring a laptop to follow along however, we will provide some written instructions for you to take home with you.

Please join us as we start another year of excitement with the Iroquois Genealogy Society!