Registration is now open for the members-only group to study the Genetic Genealogy in Practice workbook by Blaine T. Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne. Our facilitators will guide us through the workbook in seven monthly lessons. Participants will have homework assignments that will be reviewed and discussed the following month. It will be necessary to complete all assignments in order to receive the completion certificate which will be awarded at the end of the program.

 

All participants are required to have taken at least one DNA test and must own a personal copy of the workbook. The workbook may be purchased from the PCGS Marketplace (you must be signed in) or from the NGS or Amazon (Kindle edition only) websites. (If you choose to purchase from Amazon, please scroll down to the bottom of this page and access it via our portal. Amazon will donate 0.5% to PCGS at no additional cost to you!).

 

 

Attendance is limited to 22 participants; priority will be given to members that were unable to attend the first GGiP group. As such, pre-registration is required with a nominal fee of $10 to cover expenses. Meetings will be held on Saturday mornings from 10am to 12 noon at the Family History Center, 500 S. Langley. Students must attend all sessions, or complete all homework before coming to the next class if they miss a session. Students who miss three or more sessions are not eligible to graduate. The course schedule follows:

5 October 2019

9 November 2019

14 December 2019

11 January 2020

22 February 2020

14 March 2020

11 April 2020

18 April 2020 – Graduation and recognition at the PCGS General Meeting (Truly Nolen LTC)

 

To register, sign in to the Members Only, then click on the "*REGISTER FOR GGiP 2" link in the left navigation panel.  After registration, you may choose to print the form and mail it with your check or pay online with a credit card via PayPal. Only one person may register per account in order to keep track of the names of the students.

 

Not a PCGS member yet? No problem. Simply join online by clicking here then sign in with your new Member account and register.

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PCGS is proud to sponsor a Research Like a Pro workshop led by Diana Elder AG^® and Nicole Dyer of FamilyLocket.com. The mother-daughter team will lead us in this hands-on workshop using the process that has proven results time and time again. The workshop will consist of three hour-long blocks of lecture/work, with 10-minute breaks between, a 40-minute lunch break, and end with a project utilizing the Research Like a Pro process. Check-in is at 8:30 am with the workshop beginning sharply at 9:00 am.

 

Participants will have the choice of ordering lunch to be delivered from a local restaurant or of bringing their own. Instructions for ordering lunch will be provided to paid participants via email at a later date.

 

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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.

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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.

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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 will be 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.

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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.

 

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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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Our Society runs on volunteers. Below are the most critical positions needed immediately. Please consider contributing your time and talents to these areas.

 

Do you want to get the latest Society news in your email inbox? When are the meeting handouts available for download? What is the next meeting about? When can I register for that workshop I heard about? We always post notices of those items and more on our blog and you can sign up to receive email notification when a new post is published on the blog. Here's how:

 

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