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| Welcome to the Cheyenne Genealogical &
Historical Society's Web Site The Society's mission is to stimulate and encourage family history research through a variety of endeavors and to provide members and the genealogical public with a diversity of resources.
We hope you will enjoy your visit here and leave with some new knowledge about us and your genealogy search.
While you browse through the site you will find the Requests section helpful if you need help from our volunteers or officers. |  | Programs for 2009 - 2010 | 8 September 2009 | Potluck and Sharing – summer research and a brief synopsis of the Family History Expo in Loveland | | 13 October 2009 | Land Records and Patents-Locating Your Ancestors on the Map Venice Beske, Special Projects Librarian, Wyoming State Library | | 10 November 2009 | Native American Research Dr. Judith A Antell, Director of American Indian Studies, University of Wyoming | | 8 December 2009 | Christmas Party Program to be determined MEETING CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS!
See you in January. Have a great holiday season! | | | 12 January 2010 | Karen Kitchens, Intellectual Property Librarian at the Wyoming State Library.
As a United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library, the Wyoming State
Library offers a unique collection of material that can be a significant
source of historical and genealogical information. Genealogists are often
unaware of the useful and interesting genealogical and biographical information
that can be found on historical patents of invention, including citizenship status,
ancestor movement, assignee (often ancestor’s employer),
co-inventors (names of coworkers, family members or friends),
ancestors' signatures, and names of witnesses and executors.
This presentation will explain basic search strategies and will highlight
resources available for researching historical U.S. patents.
We will meet in the Sunflower Room (3rd Floor) of the Laramie County Library,
beginning at 6:00 p.m. with social time and refreshments, followed by a short
business meeting at 6:30. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. | | 9 February 2010 | "Never Lose Another Piece of Information" is the February educational program hosted by the Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society. It will be presented on Tuesday, February 9th in the Sunflower Room of the Laramie County Library in Cheyenne. This program will provide an opportunity for members and the public to receive information about organizing family records presented by Melanie Bosselman, who has taught genealogy for 12 years and is the coordinator of training for the LDS Stake in Cheyenne. Her genealogical filing system will help new as well as experienced family historians keep family records and research at their fingertips. The meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. with a social and refreshments, followed by a short business meeting and the program at 7:00 p.m. For more information on the meeting, call Wendy Douglass at 630-0924 | | 9 March 2010 | National Archives and Records Administration-Rocky Mountain Region Eric Bittner, Archivist, NARA Rocky Mountain Region Denver, Colorado Exact program to be determined | | 13 April 2010 | "Finding Those Elusive Passengers,"
a free, educational program hosted by the Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society,
will be presented on Tuesday, April 13th in the Sunflower Room of the
Laramie County Library in Cheyenne. This program will be presented by Carol Stetser,
an experienced genealogist currently serving as vice president and
program chair of the Larimer County Genealogy Society and recording
secretary for the Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado. She
volunteers her time as a family history researcher in Larimer County and
online through Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. Stetser has degrees
in English and Education and gives presentations on various aspects of
genealogy including searching passenger and immigration records. In addition,
she has many ancestors who immigrated to America in the 19th century,
so she knows from firsthand experience how frustrating, and rewarding
searching passenger lists can be.
The meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. with a social followed by a short business meeting and the
program at 7:00 p.m. The Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society’s mission is to
stimulate and encourage family history research through a variety of programs, projects and resources.
For more information on the meeting, call Wendy Douglass at 630-0924. | | 4 May 2010 | "Stories, Songs and Sodbusters," an educational, entertaining program will be
hosted by the Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society at our
annual dinner to be held at the Cheyenne Holiday Inn on Tuesday, May 4.
The program will be presented by Bill Rossiter, a professor of literature and
folklore at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana, and a
former carpenter, railroad worker, newspaper columnist, disk jockey and bartender.
With his wife Sharon he travels throughout the West, entertaining and singing of
heroes and outlaws, mines and miners, cowboys and ranch life and other
eras of American history. He has been playing traditional guitar, banjo and
autoharp music for “a long time,” and has given concerts for western and heritage
museums, resorts, town and story-telling festivals and school programs.
Rossiter is a member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, and his visit is
supported through the Speakers Bureau of the Wyoming Humanities Council.
The CGHS dinner to be served at 6:15 p.m. will be $15, payable in advance; the program
will begin at 7:00 p.m. Reservations deadline is Friday, April 30.
(There will be a charge of $5 for non-members for the program,
either in addition to dinner or for program only.) The Cheyenne Genealogical and
Historical Society’s mission is to stimulate and encourage
family history research through a variety of programs, projects and resources. For more information on the meeting and to make reservations, call 630-0924 | You are visitor since 27 January 2009 © copyright 2004 - 2009 Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society.
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