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The Genealogical Record

 
Vol. 65 (2), Spring 2025 [Click here]
 
The Spring 2025 issue of The Genealogical Record (TGR) is now available to both  HGF members and non-members and may be accessed by clicking on the link above. The Spring issue will be available until the Fall issue is published in August 2025. 
 
What you can find in each issue:
In addition to family history stories and a well-documented research article, TGR includes features to keep you abreast of what’s going on in the HGF, as well as state, and national genealogical societies. You will find information about new and continuing members, special projects undertaken by HGF members, helpful hints on genealogical resources and tools, reviews, and more. 
 
Short summaries of four articles that will hopefully rouse your curiosity:
This issue focuses on the new genealogist but has much to offer the more seasoned researchers as well.
 
A Family History Journey to Greece – Conan Peisen takes us along on a fascinating journey to Greece and into his family’s past. Connections are rekindled and a few surprises are encountered.
 
Life Stories Told in Graphical Histories – Anna Fay Williams provides a weath of ideas on creating books focusing on family events, ancestors, and other topics. Examples are helpful, interesting, and inspire us to come up with our own ideas.   
 
All In The Mail—Monica Andersen’s extensive collection of letters, postcards and notes from family members span generations. She shares some of these stories and gives a ‘best practices’ approach to cataloguing and managing a mountain of documents in.  
 
Printing Oversized Charts in Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic – Doug Greenhill continues his practical ‘how to’ column by giving step by step instructions on printing your family tree. Prints can then be shared with other family members.
 
Online Cemetery Resources for Genealogy – Deborah Turkleson and Margie Elliott review online websites for cemeteries -- how to use them, and how to contribute.
 
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.
 
 

HGF 2025 Membership

The support of our HGF members for 2024 has enabled us to present monthly meetings with presentations by top genealogists, door prizes, and refreshments for our in-person attendees and other activities that you have enjoyed and learned from.  As we begin 2025, we invite our current members to renew their membership and encourage everyone else who has appreciated our presentations to become a member.  Our annual membership fee remains as it has been since 2019 -  $25.00/yr for individuals and $35.00 for families. Some of the immediate benefits of membership include:
  • Speaker Handouts - We expect to continue offering our 2025 meetings without charge.  As before, you will need to be a current member to download the speaker handout which summarize the important lessons from the sessions and includes links to helpful genealogical resources.
  • Special Seminars - We will charge for several special seminars where we incur additional expenses but, in those cases, member fees will be significantly lower than those for non-members.  In particular, our special March seminar will feature Blaine Bettinger speaking in person on Artificial Intelligence. You'll need to be a current HGF member to register for this event at a the discounted price and to access the seminar handouts.
​Additional member benefits include:
  • The Genealogical Record - Access to current and previous editions of our award-winning publication which now includes reviews of genealogy books and podcasts, a wide variety of articles, and news about recent developments in genealogy all in a new format.  
  • Members Present Meetings - The HGF membership includes many talented genealogists with expertise in diverse areas of genealogy research.  In these meetings, several of our genealogists will explain their techniques and illustrate them with insightful case studies.
  • Special Interest Groups (SIGS) and Projects - such as our Genealogy Roundtable for more deeply exploring areas of genealogy research and new research methods and the Genealogy Merit Badge Project for local Scout Troups.
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 2024 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.
 

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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.
 
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