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SUMMARY:WMGS December Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Pot Luck Dinner and Show & Tell. \nIt’s the last meeting before the holidays! Come to our “Pot Luck” dinner and enjoy holiday music while you dine. After dinner\, we will host an “Open Mic” session for members to share their genealogy tips\, ideas\, or projects. \n 
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-december-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
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SUMMARY:WMGS November Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our meeting on November 2nd will be a treat with a return engagement of Melissa Barker\, Archivist for the Houston County Tennessee Archives\, who will speak about the exact opposite of Dave’s presentation\, off-line research: “It’s Not All On-Line: Researching the Archives.”  \nMs. Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Professional Genealogist as well as the founder of Once Upon a Time Genealogy. With over 26 years of researching family histories and 6 years of experience working with archives\, her talk will be full of useful suggestions for your next archive visit.
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-november-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
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SUMMARY:WMGS October Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our monthly meeting\, October 5th\, at which the guest speaker\, Dave Robison (our president) will present a talk entitled On-Line Search Strategies — Fishing in the Biggest Ponds  \nThis presentation and various iterations have been given at several genealogy meetings and classes as well as the 2015 NERGC conference in Providence\, Rhode Island. It is designed to assist every genealogical researcher from the proverbial “newbie” to the seasoned professional. Using the philosophy of “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know\,” Dave will help you get started from scratch if you’re just beginning or pull you out of your ruts after 20 years of hard-core research! Keep an open mind and bring a notebook! \nKey points: \n\n The “Rules of the Internet Road”\n So many websites – So little time \nThe value of subscription sites\nThe value of free sites\nGoogle your Genealogy\nSocial Media and why you need it\n\n 
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-october-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:WMGS September Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Census Reports Lead To…  \nOn September 7\, our guest speaker will be Seema Kenney of Seema-ABLE. Seema has been working in the genealogy field professionally since 2010\, having completed the Boston University Genealogy Research Program. She is currently the Secretary for NERGC (holding the genealogy conference in Springfield in 2017) and is the president of the Worcester Chapter of the Mass Society of Genealogists.   \nShe will be presenting on the many crossroads one’s research might take after finding a family in the census. This presentation will make connections between data from the different census years and data to look for in twenty-seven other resources. The census gives you location which leads to City Directories. Ages and genders lead to possible military records. Every fact on the census hints at another resource direction.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-september-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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