Genealogy Club Handouts and Minutes

February 2, 2023

Elenora Giddings Ivory, Joint session with the African American History Club
Are you my Cousin? Genealogy Tips & Pre-Civil War Family History

December 1, 2022

September 1, 2022

Old Meeting Minutes

Sep. 12, 2018 – Carl Yeich, brother of VP R. Powell “Research to Enter SAR & DAR

July 11, 2018 – Hannah Spalding “Southern Maryland Family History Conference”

June 13,  2018 – Jane Cyphers & Helen Levitt “Antiques Road Show”

May 9, 2018 – Betty & Nancy Ford – Womens’ Role in the Civil War

Apr. 2018 – Field trip to Family History Center in Kensington – No Minutes

Mar. 14,  2018 – Sharon McGinnis “Finding Forgotten Females”

Mar. 14, 2018 – Handouts

Feb. 14, 2018 – Loretta & Tia Wright “Family Across the Sea”

Jan. 10, 2018 – Carol & Susan Cook “From Slavery to Freedom in Early 1800s DC

Dec. 11, 2017 – Members “Christmas Past”

Nov. 8, 2017 – Mike Miller Genealogical Records of Interest at National Archives 

Oct. 11, 2017 – Eleanora Giddings Ivory “Slave and Concubine”

Sep 13, 2017 – Hannah Spalding “Genealogy Through Technology

Aug. 9,2017 –  Members “What I Did in Genealogy This Summer”

July 12, 2017 –  Martha Vayhinger “WWI Hospital in France”

June 14, 2017 – David Young, His Memoirs 

 May 10, 2017 – Members “Family Albums”

 Apr. 12,2017 – Jane Cyphers and Helen Leavitt “Antique Roadshiow

 Mar. 8, 2017 – Carol Patronek “Social Media”

 Feb. 8, 2017 – Bob Bordley “Bordley Genealogy Beginning 1350”

Jan. 11, 2017  –  Preserving Family History A. Lowe, D. Nation, P. Mentzer, B. Spook, M Lane

Dec, 14,  2016 – Patrick Lacefield, Civil War Reenacter

Oct. 12, 2016 – Susan Pearl “Art (and Genealogy) at the Riversdale House Museum”

Sep. 14,  2016 – Louis Solomon, “Writing Your Family History”

Aug. 10, 2016 – Dan Pence, “Gold Rush History”

Jun. 8,  2016, Research Roundup, Page 1, Page 2

May 11, 2016 – Cyphers, Elton & Mentzer – DAR and Other Legacy Societies

April 13, 2016 – Field Trip to Family History  Center.  See June 8, 2016 for Roundup

Mar. 9, 2016 – Sandra MacLean on Websites for Research

Feb. 10, 2016 – Peggy Mentzer “Sherlock Holmes as a Genealogist”

Jan. 13,  2016 – B. Putney “Search for Eastern European Ancestors”

July 22, 2015 – Gardens of Washington, DC

July 8 2015 – In Search of Ghosts in Montgomery County, MD