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November 16 General Meeting
Our last meeting of the year features two great topics to carry you over to next year.
Raya Robinson will kick off with a discussion on the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants. 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the voyage and the founding of the Plymouth Colony. There are 35 million Mayflower descendants in the world. We will find out what the members of the Arizona Mayflower Society do as an organization, what the upcoming events commemorating the landmark will be in Arizona and in Massachusetts, and what the qualifications are for joining the Arizona Mayflower Society. Raya will be joined by others from the Arizona Mayflower Society to answer our questions. Raya Robinsons is the current State of Arizona Mayflower Historian. She is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who practiced public accounting in Southern California for a few decades. She currently resides in Gilbert, Arizona, with one large German Shepherd who takes up more than her own side of the bed.
Leslie Carney will follow with our program
Deciphering Handwriting in Old Documents. Knowing the history of writing or script found in old documents can help genealogists read and understand what the document is about. Leslie will show you examples of how handwriting changed through the ages from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Leslie is a professional genealogist specializing in the southwestern United States, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Native American Indiana and Sonoro Mexico. She as always lived in sunny Tucson, Arizona. She is a speaker who enjoys educating others in the understanding of Social History, genealogical issues and promoting the interest in ginealogy. Leslie is a graduate of Boston Universit in Certificate in Genealogical Studies, and Profesional Genealogy Study Group. She is currently the Secretary of Pima County Genealogy Society (PCGS), and past Secretary of Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AzGAB). Her day job is a United States Postal Worker.
The handout for Raya's talk is available for PCGS members in the Secure Download area. You do not have to be a PCGS member to attend, but you do have to be a member to download the handout.
| Date: |
Saturday, November 16, 2019 |
| Time: |
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
| Location: |
Truly Nolen Leadership Training Center
436 S. Williams Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85711
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ANNOUNCING MEMBERSHIP DUES INCREASE
Effective 1 January 2020, our membership dues will increase from $20 for individual and $27 for family memberships to $25 and $32 respectively. You can still join or renew at the existing $20/$27 prices until 31 December 2019 by visiting our
Join / Renew page and following the instructions.
This is the first dues increase since our organization was founded in 2011 and represents the many membership benefits that have been added since then. We hope that you will agree that membership in Pima County Genealogy Society is a bargain.
Society Cookbook
PCGS is publishing a Society Cookbook. We invite our members to submit their favorite family recipes. There is room for a short note to tell a little about the recipe if you wish. The recipes can be those that have been handed down through generations, or just traditional recipes that your immediate family enjoys. Perhaps recipes your immigrant ancestors brought from their home country.
For instructions on submitting a recipe, login to Members Only, then click on Cookbook in the left navigation panel. If you don't wish to type the recipe in yourself, email it to Michelle Launi and she will enter it for you. Her email address is in the instructions.
Thank you for sharing your recipes and a piece of your heritage. We will let you know when the books will be available for purchase.
Announcing a New Member Benefit!
We are now recording our monthly meetings! The recordings are available for our Members Only to be viewed in case they missed a meeting or wish to review something the speaker said or didn't quite catch the website address on the screen. This is especially helpful for our members who are winter visitors–now they won't miss our summer programs!
We would still love to see our members join us at the meetings in person. We love seeing your smiling faces andwe have much more fun when we are together. But we know that isn't always possible and this option is there for those of us that can't always be there.
To access the recordings, log in to
Members Only with your username and password, then click on
Videos in the left navigation panel.
Members are reminded that these recordings are provided as a benefit of membership in the Pima County Genealogy Society and may not be shared or broadcast outside of the Society. Not a member of PCGS? Click
here for our easy online join process or for a link for the form to join by mail.
Another Membership Benefit
PCGS Professional Genealogist Online Directory
PCGS members who are professional genealogists and accept clients (paid or pro-bono) may be listed in a PCGS Professional Genealogist Online Directory. The directory is publicly available on the PCGS website, but only PCGS members are eligible to be listed.
If you are an active PCGS member and would like to be included in the Professional Genealogist Online Directory, please fill out the pdf form under Members Only > Secure Download > Pro Genealogist Directory Form and email it to
webmanager@azpimagensoc.org.
Our Meeting Place
Beginning in 2019, we meet at the Truly Nolen Leadership Training Center, 436 S. Williams Blvd. Only our monthly meetings and the Family Tree Maker SIG are affected by this change. Reference our blog post
We've Got a New Home! for details.
What Does Our Logo Symbolize?
Our logo is based on the state flag of Arizona which “represents the copper star of Arizona rising from a blue field in the face of a setting sun” (quote from legislation). The 13 gold and red rays represent the sun setting over the western desert and the original 13 colonies. Red and gold colors were also carried by Coronado’s Spanish expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540. The center star signifies copper production. Arizona produces more copper than any other state in the country and one of its nicknames is the Copper State. The field of blue is the same liberty blue as the United States flag. Blue and old gold are also Arizona’s official state colors. For more information about the state symbols of Arizona, visit the Arizona page of the
State Symbols USA website.
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