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From: "Scott Fitzgerald" <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] Tyler, TX - Oct. Meeting - 10/12/02
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:34:30 -0500


Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX
Saturday, October 12, 2002
Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium
2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Janice Cox Brown

Program: "The Southern Claims Commission - Researching Your Ancestor's Civil
War Damage Claims"

Not all southerners supported the ideals of the Confederacy or swore their
allegiance to it. Come learn about areas in the South where many sections
were "loyal to the Union". Discover why they opposed the Confederacy. Was
your ancestor one of the 23,000 who filed a claim with the Southern Claims
Commission between 1865 and 1880? Perhaps he gave an affidavit to the
Commission for a neighbor. Over 90 questions had to be answered by the
claimant and the records are often filled with genealogical information.

Janice Brown, co-founder and charter president of the East Texas
Genealogical Society in 1977, has been a speaker on several occasions for
ETGS. Janice served as president again in 1986 and has held almost every
office in the organization. She researched and compiled the material for two
of the Society's books - 1890 Records of Anderson County, Texas and 1890
Records of Rusk County, Texas, which include tax, marriage and other court
records. Janice has also conducted a workshop on "How to Research Your Civil
War Ancestor" and is currently writing books on her Kentucky, Georgia and
Florida grandparents. She was employed as a secretary for 30 years in a firm
of petroleum geologists, and for the past 11 years by the Southside Bank in
the oil and gas section of the Trust Department.

Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m. to 4:00
p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society
will meet. Melanie Alexander will present a program on "PDAs (Personal
Digital Assistants) - handheld computers".

East Texas Genealogical Society represent six counties which are Anderson,
Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rusk and Smith counties. ETGS publishes the East
Texas Family Records four times a year and a monthly newsletter The
Bulletin.

For more information, you may contact me at or go
to:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/

Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald, President.



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