====================================================================== LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Announcements and Meeting Reminder June 11, 2000 ====================================================================== A N N O U N C E M E N T S New photos on our Web site Jon and Gail Bryan supplied us with photos of two L-AGS members participating in Memorial Day observances in Livermore. Sue Overturf and Pat Moore, members of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, laid a wreath at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Livermore in honor of U. S. veterans. The photos are at: http://www.l-ags.org/l-ags.photos.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Guestbook is off to a good start The new L-AGS guestbook at: http://www.l-ags.org/guestbook/guestbook.html has already served a good purpose. Take a look at the entries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Four more library hours per week Beginning July 1, 2000 the Pleasanton Library will be open starting at 10 AM instead of Noon on Mondays and Tuesdays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- L-AGS at the Alameda County Fair Please be prepared at the June 13th regular meeting to specify the days when you would like to tend the L-AGS booth at the Alameda County Fair. The days and hours can be made flexible to fit your needs. Some parking and entrance passes will be available for L-AGS booth-minders. We hope to show fairgoers how L-AGS and the Pleasanton Library can help them get started in family history research. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New L-AGS library catalog We have updated the printed book catalog for the Pleasanton Genealogy Library. The new edition includes 59 new books acquired since December 1998. 32 older books have been surplussed since then. The new books and the surplus books were listed in recent e-mail messages. One added surplus book since that message is Angus Baxter's "In search of your British and Irish roots ...", 1991. We have replaced it with a new edition of the same title. A few copies of the catalog will be made available for purchase at the June 13th regular meeting. Additional copies will be printed on request. The surplus books will also be brought to the meeting. The genealogy stacks now contain 970 books in 821 titles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We now have 352 CDs Our genealogical CD-ROM collection at the Pleasanton Library is now up to 352 disks in 198 titles. Nineteen of the 352 are still on order or being used by the donors. The list on our Web site at: http://www.l-ags.org/pleasanton.cds.html always has an up-to-date accounting of the CDs actually in the carousels. ====================================================================== M E E T I N G R E M I N D E R S Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING Debbie Pizzato, Program Chairman (Note: this meeting was featured in the weekly column "Eye on the Valley" in the Tri Valley Herald last Friday) Tuesday, June 13, 2000 - 7:30 PM Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 1886 College Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/college.html Program: "Using land and Property Records" Presenter: Pat Isom At our June 13, meeting, L-AGS will present San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society member and Alamo Family History Center Director, Pat Isom. Pat suggests there are five very good reasons why you should learn how to use land and property records: 1) They are almost always totally indexed. 2) They are the most accurate of the records. 3) They are the surest proof of descent in early records. 4) Prior to 1850 - 90% of all white males were landholders 5) The greatest number of records in the Family History Library are land records. Visitors are welcome. For information contact Debbie Pizzato at 925 XXX-XXXX or XXXX@aol.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGY STUDY GROUP Vicki Renz, Leader Thursday, June 15, 2000 - 7:30 PM Location: Mocho Street LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore URL for a map to the church: http://www.l-ags.org/mocho.html The topic for this month will be announced later. Our discussions are not limited to the given topic, so if you have a problem or a solution, come to the meeting and tell us about it. Better yet, use the new e-mail list to post the subject and give the group a chance to think about it in advance. That will make the discussion more focused and productive. - - - - - Members needing help with a genealogy problem may call one of the club officers, who will attempt to find someone who can help. For information contact Vicki Renz at 925 XXX-XXXX or XXXX@home.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------