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Saturday, October 5
Newspapers (Beginning Genealogy Workshop)
9:30 am to 11:00 am Round Rock Public Library
News you can use! Sarah Kroh will help you flesh out the members of your family and help them come to life by finding their stories in the paper. In this workshop, we'll cover strategies for finding, clipping and sharing digital articles with a close look at how to use Newspapers.com and Texas Digital Newspaper Project. Have ready a couple of names (with dates and locations) from your own family so we can make this hands-on workshop personal by looking them up together in a live demonstration!
Join us in the 1st floor Technology Classroom for this workshop! |
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Tuesday, October 8
Second Tuesday Morning Georgetown Genealogy Chat (Georgetown Genealogy Chat)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom
This is an informal genealogy discussion group. Bring your genealogy questions, recent successes, or come and share in the discussion. An agenda will be available closer to the chat date.
Meeting ID: 884 2486 1127
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Monday, October 14
Genealogy Helping Hands Lab (Helping Hands Lab)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Round Rock Public Library 1st Floor Technology Room In person
The Genealogy Helping Hands Lab is a place where we can gather to work on our own genealogy together and help ourselves and each other while we’re at it.
• Genealogy questions?
• Don’t know where to start?
• Need help with your family tree software?
• Putting together a filing system?
• Want company while you work?
Join us at the Round Rock Public Library Technology Room (first floor behind the main desk) the second Monday of each month.
What you need:
• Your laptop: if you don’t have one, come anyway, we can borrow from the library.
• Documents, photos, source documents enough for about two hours of work.
• Round Rock library card if you have one.
• A friend!
• Your ideas and suggestions!
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Thursday, October 17
German Genealogy at the GTHS & Beyond / The German-Texan Heritage Society (Monthly Meetings)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Round Rock Public Library
This presentation will discuss a brief history of the German-Texan Heritage Society and the resources it brings to genealogy related to our German ancestors. These resources include paper files held at the GTHS as well as online databases available elsewhere. The resources of other Germanic genealogy resources will also be discussed with links to them provided. Lists of recommended reading material to assist your search are included in the handout.
Born and raised in Austin, Richard Gruetzner now resides in Burnet County. After studying aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University, his career path changed to that of Law Enforcement with the Travis County Sheriff's Office, retiring in 2012 as a lieutenant. He is the Vice-President of the German-Texan Heritage Society and one of their partner representatives to the International German Genealogy Partnership and the current President of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society. He also serves on the Boards of various other non-profit organizations including the Austin Genealogical Society. Richard has given lectures on German and Wendish heritage topics for various organizations including the German Department of UT-Arlington and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UT-Austin.
Join us for the in-person presentation and also on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 895 6699 1158
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Wednesday, October 23
GEDmatch DNA analysis (DNA SIG)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm online via Zoom
GEDmatch is a site that does no DNA testing. However, you can upload your test results from any other company to it. This enables you to do chromosome matching with others regardless of which company they tested with. It is free to join and they have a dozen free tools and 13 tools available when you upgrade to Tier 1. The free tools include finding DNA matches and making chromosome comparisons. The Tier 1 tools include AutoKinship, Segment Search, and Lazarus. Lazarus can be used to identify the DNA sequence for a deceased ancestor who was not tested. My mother died before she was tested, but using DNA data from her children and a brother I was able to recreate about half of her DNA sequences.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Saturday, November 2
Strategies for Breaking Down Brick Walls (Beginning Genealogy Workshop)
9:30 am to 11:00 am Round Rock Public Library
A brick wall is a place where we are stuck in our research for a particular ancestor. How do we get past these brick walls to keep our research going? This presentation will discuss reviewing what we know and how we know it. Then we look at strategies to help us like research logs, timelines, records to search, FAN and Cluster research, and proof arguments to bust through these struggles in our research.
Join us in the 1st floor Technology Classroom for this workshop! |
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Tuesday, November 5
First Tuesday Evening Georgetown Genealogy Chat (Georgetown Genealogy Chat)
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm In person at Georgetown Public Library in the Texas History Room, 2nd floor and via Zoom
In person at Georgetown Public Library in the Texas History Room 2nd floor and via Zoom
This is an informal genealogy discussion group. Bring your genealogy questions, recent successes, or come and share in the discussion. An agenda will be available closer to the chat date.
Meeting ID: 864 62 98 2083
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Monday, November 11
Genealogy Helping Hands Lab (Helping Hands Lab)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Round Rock Public Library 1st Floor Technology Room In person
The Genealogy Helping Hands Lab is a place where we can gather to work on our own genealogy together and help ourselves and each other while we’re at it.
• Genealogy questions?
• Don’t know where to start?
• Need help with your family tree software?
• Putting together a filing system?
• Want company while you work?
Join us at the Round Rock Public Library Technology Room (first floor behind the main desk) the second Monday of each month.
What you need:
• Your laptop: if you don’t have one, come anyway, we can borrow from the library.
• Documents, photos, source documents enough for about two hours of work.
• Round Rock library card if you have one.
• A friend!
• Your ideas and suggestions!
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Tuesday, November 12
Second Tuesday Morning Georgetown Genealogy Chat (Georgetown Genealogy Chat)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom
This is an informal genealogy discussion group. Bring your genealogy questions, recent successes, or come and share in the discussion. An agenda will be available closer to the chat date.
Meeting ID: 884 2486 1127
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Thursday, November 21
Member Sharing (Monthly Meetings)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Hybrid - Round Rock Public Library & via Zoom
At this meeting four or so of our members give ten to twenty minute presentations about a variety of genealogy and family history topics. If you have a topic you would like to present, please contact our Vice President Ann Patton.
Meeting ID: 895 6699 1158
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Wednesday, November 27
No DNA Special Interest Group this month! (DNA SIG)
There will be no DNA Special Interest Group this month. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Tuesday, December 3
First Tuesday Evening Georgetown Genealogy Chat (Georgetown Genealogy Chat)
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm In person at Georgetown Public Library in the Texas History Room, 2nd floor and via Zoom
In person at Georgetown Public Library in the Texas History Room 2nd floor and via Zoom
This is an informal genealogy discussion group. Bring your genealogy questions, recent successes, or come and share in the discussion. An agenda will be available closer to the chat date.
Meeting ID: 864 62 98 2083
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Saturday, December 7
WikiTree (Beginning Genealogy Workshop)
9:30 am to 11:00 am Round Rock Public Library
Wikitree is a powerful, collaborative site that allows genealogists to work together to build a one-world tree that's accurate and accessible (and free!) to everyone. Wikitree can help put your ancestors in their historical context while connecting you with other researchers with similar interests. This workshop will cover what Wikitree is, examples of its many uses, and how to get started on the site.
Join us in the 1st floor Technology Classroom for this workshop! |
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Monday, December 9
Genealogy Helping Hands Lab (Helping Hands Lab)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Round Rock Public Library 1st Floor Technology Room In person
The Genealogy Helping Hands Lab is a place where we can gather to work on our own genealogy together and help ourselves and each other while we’re at it.
• Genealogy questions?
• Don’t know where to start?
• Need help with your family tree software?
• Putting together a filing system?
• Want company while you work?
Join us at the Round Rock Public Library Technology Room (first floor behind the main desk) the second Monday of each month.
What you need:
• Your laptop: if you don’t have one, come anyway, we can borrow from the library.
• Documents, photos, source documents enough for about two hours of work.
• Round Rock library card if you have one.
• A friend!
• Your ideas and suggestions!
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Tuesday, December 10
Second Tuesday Morning Georgetown Genealogy Chat (Georgetown Genealogy Chat)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom
This is an informal genealogy discussion group. Bring your genealogy questions, recent successes, or come and share in the discussion. An agenda will be available closer to the chat date.
Meeting ID: 884 2486 1127
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
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Thursday, December 19
No Meeting This Month! (Monthly Meetings)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Round Rock Public Library
No meeting this month! Happy Holidays!
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Wednesday, December 25
No DNA Special Interest Group this month! (DNA SIG)
There will be no DNA Special Interest Group this month. Happy Holidays! Happy New Year!
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