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Saturday, January 17
Using the Ancestry Pro Tools for Trees and DNA (All Levels) (Education)
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm OGS Annex, 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR and on Zoom
Ancestry offers tools to help you evaluate your DNA results and for your tree with an Ancestry Pro Tools plan. This 2-hour class will include a demonstration of each tool and its results. A Pro Tools subscription is just $10 per month and can be cancelled at any time.
Instructor: Dawn Carlile
Class fee: $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers.
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Saturday, January 24
January Lunch & Learn (Meets In-Person) (Education)
11:00 am to 2:00 pm OGS Annex, 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR
This monthly educational and social gathering, hosted by OGS, is open to both OGS members and the public. We begin at 11:00 am Pacific with a roundtable discussion, where attendees share their knowledge of the topic. A potluck salad and dessert potluck lunch at noon will be followed by an educational program from 1:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific. We meet in person in the OGS Annex located at 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, next to our library.
11:00 am Roundtable Discussion Topic: Irish Research - Dawn will lead a discussion of resources for researching your Irish ancestors. Share where in Ireland your ancestors lived and your favorite resource.
12:00 pm Potluck Salad and Dessert lunch - Members donate a salad or dessert for the lunch or you may bring your own sack lunch and beverage. Coffee, hot tea, cups, plates, napkins, and utensils are provided. If you have a special diet, then feel free to bring your own lunch. (Suggested donation of $5.00 to cover the cost of supplies and meeting room rent.)
1:00 pm Program: Living in a Commune in the USA, by Linda Forrest. Was Great-Grandma a Shaker? Communal living experiments have been a recurring part of the American story. In this presentation, we’ll explore the history of communes, or “intentional communities” in the United States: why they formed, how they functioned, and why many ultimately dissolved, yet others endured. These experiments shaped genealogical records and can explain why some ancestors appear to “disappear” or look unusual in traditional sources.
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Saturday, January 31
Organizing your Genealogy Files both Paper & Digital (Education)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm OGS Annex, 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR and on Zoom
Getting Organized is to help you organize both your paper files and digital files so information is at your fingertips and makes it easier to see what you have and see what you are missing.
Instructor: Linda Aubrey
Class fee: $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers.
Email education@oregongs.org to attend in person. |
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Saturday, February 7
OGS Writers Group (Special Interest Groups)
2:00 pm OGS Library, 955 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR
The OGS Writers’ Group meets on the first Saturday of the month at 2:00 pm. We’ll begin in the OGS library and move to the annex if we need more space.
All writers and wannabe-writers are invited. There is no agenda for this meeting; it will be a gathering of people who like to write about family history—whether for publication, for sharing with family members, or simply for their own satisfaction. If you've already done some genealogical writing, please bring that along to share. Seeing other people’s writing can spark ideas for our own writing.
If you have questions and want to talk to me before the meeting, you can text me at 541.513.3918 or email christina.b.armstrong@gmail.com.
I hope to see you there!
Tina Armstrong
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Sunday, February 8
Research Party - In Person (Special Interest Groups)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm OGS Annex, 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR
The Research Party is an opportunity to do research at OGS with others. Everyone works on their research but is free to discuss what they are working on, share finds, and ask questions. It is not meant to be an instructional event, just a fun time to research when the library is not normally open. You will be able to access many of the records on FamilySearch that are not available to you at home. You are welcome to bring a beverage and snack.
We meet in the even months on the second or third Sunday from 1:00 – 3:00 pm in the Annex.
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Sunday, February 8
OGS Genealogy Book Club - In Person (Special Interest Groups)
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm OGS Annex, 965 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR
We meet monthly on the second Sunday of each month from 3:00 to 4:00 pm PT. Anyone is welcome to join our book club. Contact Dawn for more information.
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