The May 18th meeting features Part 1 of a DVD presentation –  ‘Taming your Inner Packrat’.  Author, lecturer, and instructor, Lisa A. Alzo will show us how to purge our inner packrat and bust through the clutter.  Learn:

▪    How to organize family history documents, photographs, for quick retrieval;
▪    The pros and cons of going paperless;
▪    Stress-free filing strategies and creating checklists to stay on track;
▪    Effective ways for distributing and sharing genealogical information with others.

Wednesday, May 18th
7:00 p.m.
Siuslaw Public Library, Bromley Room
The public is invited!!
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The Siuslaw Genealogy Society’s regular monthly meeting will follow the presentation.

UPDATE:
The Smith Project
The Smith’s Ancestry DNA test results are pending. In the interim, our researchers continue to diligently pursue their family history. Microfilm ordered from the Family History Center in Salt Lake did not provide the answers we had hoped for.  Undeterred, the research efforts to uncover a certain ancestor’s parentage continues, looking at other avenues to investigate. That is to say, for a few brief moments we were elated to locate several sources of information which seemed to verify a ‘hunch’, only to discover additional conflicting evidence! Other efforts continue to locate a newspaper account of a suspicious 1864 death are unresolved.  Stay tuned!