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Monthly News items

Meetings are the SECOND TUESDAYS ​on the months that we meet and begin promptly at 6:30 pM ​​(Unless Otherwise Noted)
Located at: 1415 N Center road, Saginaw, MI 48638 
(The Church of jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 
​Which is also the home of the Saginaw Family History Center


Notes And Handouts From Previous Speakers 
​As A Courtesy To Our Members We Will Include The Highlights From Our Monthly Speakers Presentations Along With Any Printed Information They Gave Out To SGS Members, (NOT ALL DO THIS) So That Those Who Were Not Able To Attend Can Still Have Some Of The Benefits Of Membership. GO TO: SPEAKERS NOTES/ SYLLABUS

2019 CALENDAR
SCHEDULED MEETINGS AND EVENTS FOR 2019/2020
  • JANUARY -   WORKSHOP- BRING IN YOUR BRICK WALLS - Karen Reynolds
  • FEBRUARY- THE SEARCH CONTINUES - Ann Clynick
  • MARCH - ROOTSTECH VIDEOS - Debbie Sheets
  • APRIL -  DNA EXPLAINED IN DETAIL - Dan Earl
  • MAY- to be determined
  • JUNE - (elections) - POTLUCK PICNIC
  • JULY - NO MEETING, SUMMERTIME FUN... SEE YOU IN SEPT!!
  • AUGUST - NO MEETING, SUMMERTIME FUN
  • SEPTEMBER - UNDERSTANDING LAND PATENTS - Berta Schumacher
  • OCTOBER - DIGITIZING AND RESTORING OLD PHOTOS - Jeff Haney
  • NOVEMBER - CREATING FAMILY STORIES - PART II - Stacy Wells
  • ​DECEMBER - NO MEETING- MERRY CHRISTMAS!
  • ​(CALENDAR subject to changes, please check monthly)

Next meeting will be the ...
Sept Meeting
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Tuesday, September 10th  6:30 pm
at 1415 N Center Road
Saginaw, MI 48638
​The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


SGS NEWS

2019 Elections
The elections were held and the votes are in!
There were no changes.
Betty Coleman was re-elected to stay on as one of the three Directors. All of the board members are the same:
Nancy Pavlik- President
Debra Sheets- VP
Donna Carlevato - Secretary
Alberta Schumacher- Treas.
3 Directors:
Betty Coleman
Dorothy Netzley
Bob Szczypka



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ANNUAL DUES!
​YES IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN.

​ 3 EASY STEPS
1. FILL OUT PAYMENT PAGE ONLINE
2. PRINT IT
3. MAIL WITH YOUR CHECK

(Please print a separate page for each family member)
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FOR ALL MEMBERS: PLEASE FILL OUT THE ONLINE MEMBERSHIP PAGE. 
Do not send in handwritten information


ANNUAL DUES MUST BE TURNED IN DURING APRIL OR MAY AND NEED TO BE FILLED OUT ONLINE
CLICK THE LINK ABOVE FOR ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FORM

June Picnic at Pavliks' place

We had plenty to eat, a nice evening to visit, and time to see how everyone was doing. Lee Pavlik cooked the brats and hot dogs to perfection, and we even had a visit by Millie, (John Cammins traveling companion). If you weren't there we missed you!  It was a perfect Michigan evening. 

LAST MONTHS SPEAKER ​

The family history guy
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DNA Explained Part II – Dan Earl ​
Our returning speaker from DNA 101
Dan is an entertaining yet informative speaker.
One you sure won't want to miss!


So you just got your DNA test results back. Now what? Maybe you're not as Irish as you thought, and where is that Native American DNA you grandma always talked about?

This lecture will discuss what to do now that you have your results such as how to interpret ethnicity estimates, how to look at cousin matching, and DNA circles, as well as how to use a chromosome browser. Downloading and upload raw DNA data is also discussed.

If you have your results and are wondering what to do next, this is the class for you! Bring a friend, bring two! Light refreshments follow.
FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

A better Understanding of DNA through DNA Triangulation 
Berta Schumacher

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In April we learned 'How to find a relative through DNA or GENETIC triangulation' ...that is, finding two other people who fit into your DNA matches. Triangulation is a term derived from surveying to describe a method of determining the
Y-STR (male line) or mitochondrial (female line) DNA ancestral haplotype using two or more known data points.
Berta was a very informed speaker who helped us to understand a little bit better the way to find out how you are related using this three point method.
​We will add in notes and screen shots from her lecture ASAP

From our last timbertown log 

Famicity.com
A Private Family Social Network
November 20, 2018 By Amie Tennant

A little like Facebook, Famicity, offers an easy-to-use social sharing platform—but in a more personal and secure way. When one family member opens a free account on Famicity and invites other family members to join, you create a private family network where you all can have fun sharing pictures and stories.

TO READ MORE CLICK THE LINK​
CLICK FOR LINK

DID YOU KNOW

PictureCLICK ON MISS BETTY to fill out the form
Did you know that if you are having a hard time finding an answer to a genealogical question that there is help?
The combined efforts of our members may be able to find you an answer!
Go to the ASK MISS BETTY page and post your question and see if we can help. 
​PS. We don't charge for the help.

CLICK ON MISS BETTY ABOVE
​TO FILL OUT THE FORM


THE 'ASK MISS BETTY' ANSWERS

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CLICK ON THE OWL to see what we found
Click on the OWL to see what they found
(a work in progress)

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CEMETERY NEWS

READING HEADSTONES
BY dONNA cARLEVATO

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Remember the controversy we had a couple of
years ago about using shaving cream to help read headstones?  This technique may only work on
white marble, but I thought it was creative.

This is one of the photos I received from the Teysen family who just returned last week from France. 
Their uncle is buried in the Rhone American Military Cemetery.  They used sand to fill in the engraved letters to better read the headstone.  

Last year we got an inquiry from a man in France looking for the descendants of a pilot who was from St Charles, Michigan.  He had been shot down in WW II and buried in France.  I found that the pilot's sister had married a man named Teysen and they lived in Mackinaw City.  Her children were in France last
​week for the ceremony.

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IN REMEMBRANCE

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ROBERT SZCZYPKA Sr
9 MAY 1933 - 29 APRIL 2019​
Father of Bob Szczypka, one of our SGS Directors 
Deepest condolences to Bob and his family. 
CLICK FOR OBITUARY LINK

REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL
Please note that we have recently started a REMEMBRANCE FUND
Where you can have monies ​donated to the
Saginaw Genealogical Society.
We then look for places in our county or state
that are in need of extra help in regards to
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH or PRESERVATION,
that we deem of great value to the community.
The donation to these places is then made in
your name. 
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE SEND US AND EMAIL AT:
saggensoc@gmail.com 


  • Only a genealogist views a step backwards as progress.

MEMBERSHIP REMINDER

REMEMBER ...membership dues are due in either APRIL or MAY each year. NEW Memberships started mid-year are now prorated. All other memberships
are LATE unless paid for BY MAY 31.

Please either mail them in to the new address:
P.O. Box 6584 Saginaw, Mi 48608-6584
or bring them to the MAY Meeting. Thank you!
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PLEASE NOTE:
IF MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE MORE THAN 6 MONTHS LATE, THE MEMBER ONLY ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE WILL BE DEACTIVATED
​
REMEMBER THE TIMBERTOWN LOG HAS GONE GREEN  The TTL now comes thru your email
unless the extra $5.00 fee is included with your annual membership fee

ALL PAST TTL'S WILL BE ARCHIVED ON THE SITE
LOOK UNDER> MEMBERS ONLY​

IN LOCAL NEWS

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HOYT LIBRARY INDEXING PROJECT
IS STILL GOING ON
,
​IF YOU HAVE TIME OVER THE SUMMER AND WISH TO HELP PLEASE CONTACT THE HOYT LIBRARY AND ASK ABOUT HELPING ON THIS MUCH NEEDED SCANNING PROJECT 
HOYT LIBRARY
​505 Janes Avenue
Saginaw, MI 48607
Phone: (989) 755-0904

OR CLICK ON THE BUTTON BELOW TO VOLUNTEER
VOLUNTEER TODAY!

FOOD AND FAMILY HISTORY

OLD RECIPE FAVORITES

​You might not have considered food as being connected to family history, but it is!
Good food has a way of bringing families together.
And anytime families gather, even if to JUST EAT --
That's when Family History is made!​

Best Dang Potato salad

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TOO TIRED TONIGHT TO FINISH THIS...ITS A WORK IN PROGRESS....CHECK BACK TOMORROW :)

Kate and the upright Eggs

Family stories are always fun to recount during family gatherings and this is one that we always love to share while in the kitchen preparing big family meals.

Click on link for THE REST OF THE STORY

​TOO TIRED TONIGHT TO FINISH THIS...ITS A WORK IN PROGRESS....CHECK BACK TOMORROW :)
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Deviled Egg Recipe

Submit your own family favorite recipes here
and we will publish them! Please send photos to sgsmi1971@gmail.com
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CLICK TO SUBMIT RECIPE

FREE GENEALOGY HELP
 the beginning': Using DNA and genealogy to crack years-old cold cases

SAGINAW RESEARCH HELP

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THE SAGINAW FHC
IS OPEN AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES FOR
​FREE HELP  OR ​WHEN EVER YOU WANT TO DO A LITTLE MORE DIGGING AROUND  YOUR TREE!


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TUES 1-4 / WED 6-9 / SAT 9-3
 1415 N Center Road, Saginaw, MI 48638     
 Call: 989-793-1696 x2

PLEASE NOTE: FamilySearch will no longer rent out microfilm at any of its affiliate centers as of Sept 7, 2017.
​The entire microfilm collection, stored within the Granite Mountain in Utah, has been digitized and is now being made available online for FREE. Microfilm on loan currently may be kept at the facility it was sent to. If you need help viewing a film, please either contact the local FHC in Saginaw at the above location:

Or contact FamilySearch directly at
1-866-604-1830
​24 hrs a day / 7 days a week

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SGS PIONEER CERTIFICATES
Pioneer, Settler or First Family certificates are for any PROVEN ancestors who may have lived in Saginaw County from 1822-1884.
Give a gift the family will forever remember.  Your ancestor will be noted in our website and you will receive a handsome embossed Certificate of Record that will be vetted by our Society. Suitable for framing, or for documentation, of your ancestors presence in our county along with their pedigree.
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Dr Matt Deibel and wife Emily Deibel and SGS President Nancy Pavlik for First Family Awards

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John Cammin and the first Certificate in the Pioneer/Settler/First Family Awards Program
The Saginaw Genealogical Society began the issuance of Pioneer, Settler and First Family Certificates in 2017, and so far they are a big hit. We welcome anyone who is interested to go to the History tab in the menu and then to PIONEERS or just click on the pioneers link.

MILITARY HISTORY & NEWS

 6/5/9019
​Watch the men jump in Normandy

Thanks to Michael Conner, Pat Armitage and Richard Clapp for the videos and photos
Watch the jump 1
Watch the jump 2
Watch the jump 3
Video 4 with music

D-Day Approaches....Once Again

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Click to see video

WWII NEWS:​DAKS over Normandy
75 YR COMMEMORATIVE ​JUMP IN FRANCE 

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​...and how Tabasco sauce went with the men to war. to read more about it..

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DIGGING UP THE PAST

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By Sue Shellenbarger
Updated Jan. 15, 2013 9:33 p.m.
Amateur genealogists, beware! Researching your ancestry doesn't always turn up heroes and royalty. It may turn up a felon, a bigamist or another unsavory character.
New York filmmaker Heather Quinlan found more than a few skeletons when digging into her ancestors' closet. Among them: Thomas Fagan, her grandmother's great-grandfather, who had killed a man during a drunken bar fight in 1868 (reportedly hitting him over the head with a chair in self-defense)....

                CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO


click for link


I'm not stuck, I'm Ancestrally challenged. 

THIS JUST IN

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From Karen Grohol
Anyone planning on going to the National Genealogical Society Conference in St. Charles, Missouri in May 2019?  If yes, start looking into hotels ASAP! I called a few places and many hotels, especially close by, were sold out at the special conference rate! I went to the 2018 conference this year and had a great time! ​Hope to see some of you there! Registration begins from May 8 to May 11, 2019. ​​
​WANT TO ASK KAREN A QUESTION?

POST IT ON OUR Fb PAGE

To link to the NGS website click
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CLICK TO READ MORE

LINKS FOR OUR READERS...

fOR QUICK LINKS - CLICK ON THE BLUE ICONS

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​​Beginners Guide to ​Starting
a Family Tree


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          Saginaw County
​               Records 


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Ellis Island Records and Info

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Timbertown log          SGS Links Page (tons of links)


Recent News

hOW TO USE THE NEW:  findagrave

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CLICK ON THE PHOTO ABOVE TO LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO

aMAZING STORIES​

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HOW AN UNLIKELY HISTORY WEBSITE TRANSFORMED COLD CASE INVESTIGATIONS 

Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website.
This is how GEDmatch went from a casual side project to a revolutionary tool.
Curtis Rogers enjoys helping people solve family history puzzles. He inadvertently created a database that can now identify 60 percent of Americans of Northern European ancestry.


TO READ MORE ABOUT IT 
​​CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
​
CLICK FOR THE REST OF THE STORY

Do you have an interesting genealogy story?
Send us an email and we will be happy to post it!

sgsmi1971@gmail.com

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GENEALOGY TUTORIALS
​

​ITS FREE
CHECK THEM OUT !

Learn how to D.I.G. 
​(Discover, Index, Genealogy) 
Click on link below TO CONNECT

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 History4you.com
TUTORIALS ON :
HOW TO GET STARTED IN BUILDING A TREE
​HOW TO LOOK FOR INFORMATION
HOW TO INDEX
INFORMATION ON THE NEXT GENEALOGY CONFERENCE
 

hELP US INDEX LOCALLY

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​US, Michigan
Obituaries
1820–2006
​[Part B]

FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME, OR WITH HELP AT THE FAMILY HISTORY CENTER, INDEX RECORDS SO THAT EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE AVAILABLE ONLINE DATA TO USE FOR FREE!  *OR* 
GO TO HISTORY4YOU.COM
AND FOLLOW THE STEPS TO LEARN HOW TO INDEX
  • In this project,index only documents pertaining to a death. Any image that does not show at least one death record should be marked as a No Extractable Data image.
  • The obituaries and death notices are typically in chronological order.
  • Each batch includes up to five images.
  • Each image usually shows just one document, but some obituaries may extend across multiple images, and some images may contain more than one obituary.
CLICK to connect

MORE INTERESTING STUFF

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NEWSBANK ​can be used for free with your public library card ID number. This website has newspapers to search for obituaries!

DID YOU KNOW

SAGINAW NEWS OBITUARY INDEX

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With over 200,00+ obituaries for you to find. 
​​Click on the photo link below or go to:
 
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http://obits.netsource-one.net/


DEATH RECORDS ON
​SEEKING MICHIGAN

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Click the green button above
​to link to the page

FREE- FREE- FREE!

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CLICK ON TITLE BELOW TO GO TO LINK
50 Free Genealogy Sites
​
to Search Today​


TOO FUNNY

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HEAD SCRATCHIN' GENEALOGY
​

Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were
wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my very life, My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife. To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.
Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.​
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw,
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own
grandpa!



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FAMILY HISTORY CENTERS
​NEAR YOU?

No Problems...check this out...


FamilySearch has 4,600 local facilities in 126 countries where anyone can access genealogical records and receive personal assistance with their family history. These centers include the world-famous Family History Library in Salt Lake City, large regional facilities in places like Mesa, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, and smaller centers that are usually found inside Latter-day Saint meetinghouses.
Family history centers are free and open to the public and staffed by knowledgeable volunteers. Each facility offers both novices and experienced family historians the tools and resources to learn about their ancestors.


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​STRANGE BUT TRUE
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A murdered man discovered in a Maryland trash can in 1985 has finally been identified through genetic genealogy, police said.

After nearly six decades of being nameless, new technology has helped bring answers.
"All these years and people still care," Kelso's sister, Maryellen Kelso, said at the news conference.
In 2018, Anne Arundel County investigators turned to the emerging tool of genetic genealogy to help break the case.
Click for link to THE REST OF THE STORY

​LIBRARY CARDS

Are you a Michigan library card holder?  Did you know that as of May 24, 2016, you can now access hundreds of Michigan’s state parks, historic sites, recreation areas and campgrounds for either free or discounted admission?
​You can even use it to visit any of the Seven National Park venues in the state!

​
Read More About It: 
​
Your Michigan Library Card Is Good At More Than Just Libraries! ​  
CLICK ON THE BUTTON BELOW
CLICK TO CONNECT

THIS JUST IN ON Fb
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ARE YOU A TAPHOPHILE? Believe me the word sounds a lot scarier than it really is!! (taf-o-file) Here WIndy rudnicki talks about being a taphophile, what it means, what we do and what it means to us! She even has a Brilliant Quiz to determine whether you are in fact a Taphophile too!!
CHECK IT OUT!!!

FOR STORY CLICK HERE

CHECK OUT OUR Fb SITE

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There are lots of cool and interesting things to read there! You can connect to Fb right from our website.
​1.Go to our main page and choose
​"Fb link" or
2.click HERE
 

You will need to sign into your own Fb account to enter the site.

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 Eventually, all genealogists
come to their census.





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