During the summer, we had planned and prepared to hold hybrid monthly meetings starting in Sepetember with some folks at Bayland Community Center and others attending via Zoom.  We know that many of you would like to visit again with your fellow genealogists and we wanted to provide that opportunity.  Unfortunately, once again, the Covid virus has foiled our plans. Given the rapid increase of the virus in Harris County, the HGF board has decided that the September meeting will be online-only via Zoom. No in-person HGF meetings will be held in September.  The board will review the Covid situation again in September and determine the status of the October meetings.  The good news is that HGF has held many very well-received online meetings over the past year and a half.  Our Program committee has arranged for great national and regional speakers for this year so you can anticipate that, no matter whether you attend in-person or online, you'll enjoy the meeting while enhancing your genealogical knowledge.

Last fall, five HGF members, Rae Bryant, Monica Andersen, Mary Hollis, Ginny Douglas, and Barbara Richards,  inspired by the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment,  teamed-up to look for Houston suffragists from 1920. After scouring Houston’s archival closets looking for suffragists and with additional research help from HGF members Lynda Collins, Randy Pace, and Carolyn Shimek, they uncovered the story of the first women to vote in federal elections in Texas and data on several thousand 1920 suffragists. With the help of Walter Steets, they developed the Houston Suffragists Project website to tell the story of this election and allow you to search for women who were part of this history.