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SUMMARY:WMGS April Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our meeting in April will be a presentation by Steve Hartwell entitled “Building a Custom Website for your Family History”  \nPedigree charts may be an interesting way to share our genealogy\, but what about the “rest of the story” – our family letters\, photographs\, heirlooms\, tales\, etc.? How can we share our ancestral stories online with everyone in our extended family? Learn how to bring your stories to life by using an easy building-block approach to create a custom website. You will see techniques and examples to give you ideas on how best to showcase your own family history. \nSteve Hartwell lives in North Reading\, Massachusetts\, and has been researching his family for over 30 years. He retired from a long career at IBM in 2014 and has since become a professional genealogist specializing in both ancestral research\, particularly in New England\, and custom website design. Steve is a graduate of the Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate Program  and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy\, and is a board member of the Society of Essex Genealogists. His website can be found at shartwell.com/services. \n 
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-april-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170301T180000
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SUMMARY:WMGS March Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our March 2017 meeting features Ta Mara Conde\, President of Historic Gravestone Services. Her extensive experience working with cemeteries in general and gravestones in particular. Her presentation will give us an insight into her work and passion for the historic preservation of the memorials to our ancestors. \n.
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-march-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170201T180000
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SUMMARY:WMGS February Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our meeting on February 1st will feature a team of speakers\, Sara Campbell and Shari Strahan\, with a presentation entitled “Did Gramma Have a Filling Station? Married Women’s Businesses.”  \nShari and Sara have been research partners for a variety of projects in Western Mass since solidifying their common interest while working as census takers in 2010. They are relentless in finding the story behind the document and have brought many forgotten families to light with their research. Sara has been active in the Polish Genealogical Society of Mass\, while Shari’s ethnic specialty is in French Canadian genealogy\, as well as the families of Historic Deerfield\, where she lives. \nSara Campbell is a lecturer and educator in Western Massachusetts where she has been active in the genealogical community for 25 years. Her background as a civil engineer sometimes gives her a unique perspective on her research\, she blogs about history at http://rememberingancestors.blogspot.com/ and will be presenting this talk at the NERGC 2017 Conference in Springfield\, MA. \n 
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-february-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170104T180000
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SUMMARY:WMGS January Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Who? What? When? Where? Are these the words of a genealogist researching his family tree or a forensic scientist solving a mystery? Maybe someone who is both!  \nJoin us on January 4th for a presentation from Colleen Fitzpatrick entitled Forensic Genealogy – CSI Meets Roots. Colleen is featured as The DNA Detective in More Magazine\, May 2010\, is a former nuclear physicist who had designed equipment for NASA to use in its Jupiter projects. She has since turned her analytic skills and data loving drive to the field of genealogy\, specifically forensic genealogy. She uses her skills to search for missing persons\, living and dead.
URL:https://westmassgen.com/event/wmgs-january-meeting/
LOCATION:Agawam Senior Center\, 954 Main Street\, Agawam\, MA\, 01001\, United States
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T180000
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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
CATEGORIES:WMGS Monthly Meeting
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160907T180000
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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
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