Meetings 2023-2024
The SBGS holds 2 types
of meetings:
-
General
Meeting & Luncheon
- third Tuesdays as shown below September through May.
-
SIGS
(Special Interest Groups)
- various
times monthly as shown below.
General Meeting & Luncheon
Our luncheons are are back!
The meeting location is:
United
Methodist Church (UMC),
1971 Haverford Ave,
Sun City
Center.
Our meeting location will
be in the Life
Enrichment Center (LEC) auditorium, behind the church.
Click here for map
and directions
10:30 am -
Regional Round Table
12:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - Guest Speaker Program
COST: $18.00 includes
program & pre-planned lunch. Make check payable to South Bay
Genealogical Society. Reservations must be received at least twelve (12)
days before the meeting. Send a check
for $18.00 each, including names
of attendees and food choice to SBGS, PO Box 5202, Sun City Center, FL
33571
January 17 – Carol Rooksby Weidlich
– Who is
Emma? Join us to hear about Carol
Rooksby Weidlich’s journey to discover the life of her
great-grandmother, Emma. Emma's story takes place in three countries,
with three children, and with three certain men in her life. This case
study will demonstrate how looking once, twice, three times or more at
many, many sources, may eventually knock down a brick wall.
February 21 – Paula Smith
- Paul Milton, where did
you go? A Case Study
Mini Seminar March 21
Annette Burke Lyttle
- Following Ancestral
Migrations: Three Case Studies - Following
migrating American families in three case studies covering a Colonial
migration, a move from Massachusetts to Illinois by way of Vermont and
New York after the American Revolution, and a move from Illinois to
Nebraska to homestead. We’ll look at what kinds of records we can use to
follow ancestral migrations and fill in their stories.
- Beyond the Records –
Putting Flesh on the Bones of Your Civil War Ancestor
Over three million Americans were in uniform during the
Civil War. It’s becoming easier to find the facts of our ancestors’
service, but how do we reconstruct their experiences? This presentation
will show you how to fill in the blanks between the facts, allowing you
to tell your ancestors’ stories.
April 18 – Debbie Smyth –
- DNA Doesn’t Lie, but
Needs Help to Find the Truth! DNA
testing is a valuable tool for use in genealogical research. DNA
provides confirmation of a genetic relationship; however, it requires
the help of documentary research to confirm the genealogical
relationship. This presentation reviews the differences between a
genetic relationship and a genealogical relationship and how pairing the
two will strengthen your genealogical conclusions.
May 16 – April Min
- "Henry Mansfield Dillard:
Tampa’s Forgotten African American Pioneer"
A Case Study Dillard was a minister in Tampa
in the early 20th century and helped start the Spring Hill community in
North Tampa. April will specifically talk about finding records in
Hillsborough County and how she found records for his parents, both
enslaved in Georgia.
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