The Genealogical Society of Sarasota Monthly Meeting

Please join us for the monthly meeting of The Genealogical Society of Sarasota.  A different guest speaker is featured each month.

Clues in the News 

Newspapers are the chronicle of a community and its life. They contain a wealth of information about our ancestors, their families, and the things in which they were involved. This seminar discusses and shows many examples including marriage and birth announcements, accidents, death notices and obituaries, news from churches and social organizations, stories about local military personnel, farm and ranch news, weather, shipping news, and more. Important websites for digitized U.S. newspapers are discussed and URLs are presented. Your newspaper research will take off and you'll learn more about your family in no time! 

His company, Aha! Seminars, also produces the Genealogy Connection podcast, hosted by Drew Smith, which presents interviews with genealogy speakers, authors, and other genealogy professionals. Its episodes alternate weeks with episodes of The Genealogy Guys Podcast. George is the primary author of The Genealogy Guys Blog. 

George is also the author of fourteen landmark genealogy books. These include The Genealogy Forum on America Online: The Official User's Guide and the award-winning Your Family Reunion: How to Plan It, Organize It, and Enjoy It, both published by Ancestry Publishing. His award-winning book, How to Do Everything: Genealogy, published by McGraw-Hill, has been a part of its highly successful "How to Do Everything" series and has been one of the best-selling genealogy "how-to" books published in the last 20 years.

Please join us for this fun and informative talk.