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HGF 2025 Membership Renewals

We very much appreciate your support for 2024 which has enabled us to bring great speakers to HGF and to support our other activities including: 
  • Our award-winning The Genealogical Record which now includes reviews of genealogy books and podcasts, a wider variety of articles, and news about the developments in genealogy all in a new format.  
  • Our Members Present meetings such as our May 2024 meeting in which HGF members Sharon Young and her cousin recounted their genealogy research trip down the Mississippi and Doug Greenhill explained how to create large format pedigree charts.
  • New Special Interest Groups (SIGS) such as our Genealogy Roundtable for more deeply exploring areas of genealogy research and new research methods with a focus on using RootsMagic.
As a reminder, HGF has changed from calendar year membership to one based on your membership anniversary, e.g. if you joined HGF in March of last year, your membership will expire at the end of March this year.  Memberships for those of you who joined prior to this year will have your membership expire at the end of December.  You'll know its time to renew your membership when you log onto the HGF website and find a red box at the top giving instructions for renewing your membership or you could mark your calendar.
 


The Genealogical Record Wins TxSGS Award

The Texas State Genealogy Society Awards
 The Genealogical Record
First Place for Official Periodicals of Partner Societies / Journals

 
At its annual awards ceremony in November, the Texas State Genealogical Society (TxSGS) awarded HGF's own The Genealogical Record First Place in the Official Periodicals of Partner Societies/ Journals category. This award recognized the great work done by the TGR editor Cynthia Chappell, the Editorial Committee including Doug Greenhill, Conan Peisen, and Barbara Richards and all the talented HGF members who contributed articles to the Record.  Please congratulate them if you see them the December meeting.

The current issue of the Record is available to everyone by clicking on The Genealogical Record, Fall, 2024.
 
Note that previous editions of The Genealogical Record are available to HGF members by logging onto the website and clicking on Member Resources, then The Genealogical Record.
 


Subscribe to HGF Meeting Notices

Email notices of upcoming HGF monthly meetings, seminars, and SIG meetings are sent out twice monthly.  If you're not receving these notices and would like to, please click on subscribe HGF notices and complete the short form.   You don't have to be an HGF member to receive the meeting notices.
 


Upcoming Events
January 4
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Researching Graphically: Expand Your Research with Timelines, Charts, Diagrams with Ari Wilkins
    Online and Carriage House Clayton Library Campus 5300 Caroline St. Houston, TX 77004   Please note change of meeting location. Click on Learn More  for ...

February 1
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Tracing Southern Ancestors: Land and Tax Records with Diana Elder
  Online and Carriage House Clayton Library Campus 5300 Caroline St. Houston, TX 77004     Our Spring Seminar will focus on the challenge ...

March 1
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists with Blaine Bettinger
Online and In-Person Location TBD