Volusia – Flagler County Genealogy Society’s Newsletter  

October 2008 Issue 4.10        

 

 Early V-FCGS Newsletter to announce early 2009 Seminar Prize Drawing

 

The V-FCGS 2009 Seminar has received a “Donated Prize” with a value of $600 in the form of: 

 2 - Season tickets for Daytona Symphony 2008-2009 Season - Nov 1. 2008 to April 5, 2009

 

The 2009 Committee will at its meeting Oct 6 at City Island Library, decide exactly when, where and how to have an early prize drawing for this one prize only.  All registrations received to the date of the drawing (TBA) which is estimated to be in later part of October, will be included.  This will give everyone time to get registrations in and allow the prize recipient to attend all the 2008-2009 season events.

 So get your registrations in if you have not done so already.  Registration form included end of this NL and available online at  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flvcgs/2009VFCGSSeminar.htm

 

This generous and time sensitive prize donation from the Daytona Symphony Society was neither expected nor planned.   The committee has also received other wonderful prizes to be awarded during the seminar including the confirmation of a World Annual Subscription from Ancestry.com

Any questions please email  vcgs@cfl.rr.com

 

Volusia – Flagler Council of Genealogical Societies
2009 Seminar Committee

 

 

Volusia and Flagler  Genealogy Societies  Calendars

Volusia County Genealogical Society will meet Thursday October 16, 2008,  6pm. Auditorium of the City Island Library, 105 E.  Magnolia Avenue, Daytona Beach, FL. Speaker Marian Tomblin   Program “Local Historical Buildings”.  Visitors always welcome.  Refreshments will be served after the program. For more information contact Audrey Beegle, 386-760-8851, e-mail: vcgs@cfl.rr.com or visit our website   http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flvcgs/ . 

 

FREE classes in “Beginning Genealogy”-  City Island Library Board Room 9:30 – 11:00am

Monday,  October 6 and 13, 2008.  Learn how to trace your family tree for fun or to prepare papers to join a patriotic society. You will learn about primary sources and the various secondary sources available to you at the library and on the internet. If interested, please call Carol Smith at 756-3634 to register.

 

  

Halifax Genealogical Society meeting will be held on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. in the Ormond Beach Library Auditorium. There will be a board Meeting at noon in Meeting Room 3.   PROGRAM: "Under Used, Unheard of and Not So New Resources or Where You Have NOT Looked?"   SPEAKER: Pam Cooper, a teacher and lecturer on genealogy at local, state and national levels and has been a genealogist since 1977.  Since 1986, she has served as President, Editor and Program Chair of the Indian River Genealogical Society and as Trustee, Vice-president, and several committee chairs of the Florida State Genealogical Society.

 

Roots and Branches Genealogical Society of West Volusia County normally meets in the Auditorium of the DeLand Public Library, 130 East Howry Avenue, at 2:00 PM on the third Sunday from September through June.   The general meeting will be on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM.  The feature presentation will be by A.G. Conlon, who will be speaking about “Researching Military Records.”   At 1:00 PM, prior to the general meeting, there will be a basic genealogy lesson entitled, “Special Collections and Libraries” by Louise Caccamise.   The basic genealogy lessons are conducted in the Conference room (first floor, behind and to the right of the Audio Visual Desk).  The public is invited to attend the lessons and the general meeting.   For more information, contact Carol Izzo at 386-734-8715   or visit the our website http://www.rootsweb.com/~flrbgs/ 

 

Genealogical Society of Southeast Volusia County will meet from 5:00–7:00 p.m., Monday, October 13, 2008, at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 South Dixie Freeway, New Smyrna Beach.  The meeting is open to the public.   Dr. Robert K. Wright, Jr., New Smyrna Beach, will speak on “Genealogical Research on the Civil War.”   The Tip of the Month handout, “Church Records” will be available for everyone.

Volunteers are available in the library from 1:00 – 3:00 on Monday and Wednesday to help with your research.  For additional information, call (386) 428-2507.

 

Genealogy Society of Flagler County in Palm Coast   will hold its regular meeting at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway, N.W., Palm Coast, on Thursday, October 16 at 5:30 p.m.  Larry Gross, owner of NetFX Pro Computing, will present "Basic Computer Tips" with time for your questions.  Should anyone have a computer question, you are welcome to attend our meeting.  Call Marcia at 386-986-2900 if you need further information.  www.flaglerlibrary.org/genealogy/genstart.htm

 

 

Volusia – Flagler County Council of Genealogy Societies

 

V-FCGS 2009 Seminar Update     George Morgan and Drew Smith will jointly present all day 4 topic seminar Saturday January 24, 2009  at the Palmetto Club on South Beach Street in Daytona Beach.  Continental breakfast will be available during sign in and hot buffet lunch is included.  

 

   Registration forms will be available to all V-F County Gen Society meetings in September or go to the
V-FCGS 2009 Seminar Registration form link for a printable Registration form.     http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flvcgs/2009VFCGSSeminar.htm

 

 

Please consider participating in the donated book table fund raiser;

 Each Society of the V-F Council is now receiving donation Genealogy related Books and Magazines   for the “Donated Book Table” in the Vendors Area at the Seminar.  Please donate any Books, Magazines, DATA and Family Tree programs that are of a “Genealogical and Historical” nature.   The donations of these books are tax deductable, the proceeds will support the seminar and any unsold books will be donated to the County Library of the donor.   This is a great way to clean out those unneeded and now un used genealogy books giving someone that needs them a chance to use them and pass them forward as library donations or resell at future seminar table.    Genealogical and History related materials only please.   Example: A Revolutionary War Cookbook is fine, but not a general cookbook of recipes.
 

V-F Council quarterly meeting schedule as follows:

Next Meeting - 18 November 2008, Flagler, Palm Coast    10 AM   

17 February 2009, Roots and Branches, Deland

19 May 2009, GSSVC, New Smyrna Beach

 

 

Privately owned Books by Society Members in Volusia County.

 Reminder that we maintain a list of Privately owned Books by Members of Volusia County Genealogy Societies   at  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flvcgs/privatebooks.htm

Please submit your list of books you own that you would be willing to loan or do lookups for with  Keyword, Title, Author,  year published,   type offering Meet / Loan or look up and  contact  info Name/  Email / Phone  to  vfcgsnewsletter@cfl.rr.com   

 

 

DAR- Daughters of the American Revolution

 

Daughters of the American Revolution, Jane Sheldon Chapter, New Smyrna Beach,  will celebrate its 83^rd Birthday on Thursday, October 2, 2008, 11:30 a.m., at Blackbeard’s Inn, New Smyrna Beach. Donna Forsythe, Past Regent of Colonel Arthur Erwin DAR Chapter, DeLand, Florida, will report on the July session of Continental Congress held in Washington, DC. Please RSVP (386) 428-1521 for reservations.

 

 

DAR Sugar Mill Chapter will meet on Tuesday October 21, 2008  at 7:00 p.m. at the Port Orange Christian Church, 904 Taylor Road.  Speakers from the League of Women Voters will discuss the Constitutional Amendments for 2008.   Women whose ancestor participated in the American Revolution and desire to become members of the Daughters of the American Revolution are invited to contact Regent Dawn Sautter at 322-1818 or Audrey Beegle at 760-8851 for further information.

 

 

SAR - Sons of the American Revolution

 Deland Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution normally has a luncheon meeting the second Monday each Month all year at 12 noon at, Woodland Towers in Deland.  

 

The Daytona - Ormond Chapter Sons of the American Revolution will meet on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM at the Palmetto Club, 1000 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach, FL. Ann McFall, Supervisor of Elections, will speak on “The History of Elections in the State of Florida.”

Reservations to attend the luncheons may be made by calling: Douglas Little at 386-676-0551, or Carroll Ochs at 386-761-7043.

 

 

Gen Web Project
What is Gen Web?  A group of volunteers working together to provide, free genealogy websites, for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.  This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.
 

US Gen Web Project    http://usgenweb.org/

Florida Genweb Project   has new website  along with Florida Counties.
http://www.flgenweb.net/index.html

Volusia Count Gen Web 

http://www.flgenhistonline.com/counties/flagvol/volusia/volusia.html

Flagler Co Gen Web  

http://www.flgenhistonline.com/counties/flagvol/flagler/flagler.html

 

Family History Centers    

Daytona Beach Florida  1125 6th Street,  Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, United States
Tuesday and Thursday: 9 to 5 ,  Wednesday and Saturday: 10 to 2

As always, it's a good idea to phone ahead (386-257-9223) to make sure we are open.

Daytona FHC – Web link     http://members.aol.com/junebyr/ch.html

 

Deland Florida  1345 S Aquarius Ave,  Deland, Volusia County, Florida, United States
Phone: 386-822-9695     Hours: T, W,Th, Sat 10am-2pm; T,W 6pm-9pm

                                

Bunnell Florida 402 N Palmetto St,  Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida, United States
Phone: 386-437-7881   Hours: T 9am-5pm; Th. 9am-9pm.
Closed: Closed the last two weeks of December .

 

 

 Libraries

Volusia County  Public Library’s    

http://www.vcpl.lib.fl.us/

 

 

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Orlando  Main   Public  Library      

101 E. Central Blvd.
Orlando, Florida 32801
 407-835-7323
Located -  between Rosalind Avenue  and Magnolia Avenue on Central Boulevard.
Hours:
Monday – Thursday   9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday  9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday -  1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Orlando Library – NEW  Links

 http://www.ocls.info/locations/MainLibrary/default.asp?bhcp=1

Orlando Library Genealogy Department Fourth Floor link
http://www.ocls.info/locations/MainLibrary/DRI/genealogy.asp?bhcp=1 
Genealogy Periodicals in the collection at the Orlando Public Library. The titles are listed by DEWEY and in Alpha order. If you have access to Heritage Quest through your library web site, you can use the PERSI index to locate articles of interest and check this link to see if the Orlando library has the title and issue you need
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pvJd32s7WfQv_V7ianVPYFQ
Monthly NEW TITLES added to the Special Collections at the Orlando Public Library which includes Genealogy, Florida Collection and Disney Collection. You can always check the library's catalog for titles (www.ocls.info), this is just a listing of NEW titles added by month since October 2007.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pvJd32s7WfQsx8muEUFIPWw

NOTE:  If you add the two links to your favorites, you can check whenever you like as the information is updated on a regular basis.

 

 

V-FCGS Newsletter is now on line at  http://www.rootsweb.com/~flvfcgs/

Please save the URL link to your favorites or desktop.  We have stopped taking subscriptions now that the NL is online.  For the short term we continue to email to those already subscribed. As per discussion at the August 19, V-FCGS quarterly board meeting email delivery of the NL will be discontinued in 2009.    

 

This On-Line newsletter is for the Volusia and Flagler County Genealogy, Heritage, History and Veterans Groups, Societies, Camps and Clubs.    Any announcement of relative interest as meeting dates or speaker and event announcements are welcome.   This newsletter format will be in simple Text style.   I encourage group correspondents to email me your announcements at  VFCGSNewsletter@cfl.rr.com   before  the  26^th of each month . If I don’t receive the item in time, no pressure, It can go in next month if still relevant.   Thank you all.

 Distribution  This online newsletter is FREE to any and all.     No Subscription needed.  The current monthly edition is always online at   http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flvfcgs/      

 

Any question or comments just email me at  VFCGSNewsletter@cfl.rr.com.  Please pass this email or newsletter to any and all persons with interest.

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