February 2012 Minutes

Minutes

La Crosse Area Genealogical Society

February 28, 2012

La Crosse Public Library

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 7:15 pm by President Terry Micks.

Officer Reports

The minutes of the Nov. 22, 2011 meeting were read by Joyce Krueger and approved by those in attendance.

The Treasurer�s Report was read. The beginning balance on hand as of Nov. 22, 2011 was $1,577.80 with receipts of $110.71 and disbursements of $151.00, leaving a balance on hand as of Feb. 28, 2012 of $1,537.51. Report was approved.

Correspondence

Sat., May 19, 2012 is the Family History Conference in Wausau.

April 27 & 28 is the WSGS Gene-A-Rama in Green Bay.

Committee Reports

Archives

The Archives is looking for one or two volunteers to make copies of obituaries using the computer. This will be once or twice a week at a set time of 1 to 2 hours.

Quarterly

Don�t forget to share any information you have for the Quarterly, with Terry at: [email protected] -- please put �LAGS� in the subject line.

Programs

March - We will have a presentation regarding the 1940 census. We will also be discussing ways to financially support the Archives.

April or May - Roundtable discussion

Website - No report.

Unfinished Business

We spent a lot of time discussing and making decisions about the Genealogy Workshop for Beginners.

February 15th the price for microfilm short-term loan went to $7.50, and long-term loan went to $18.75.

Anyone in the La Crosse area that has records to go on microfilm, please contribute them to the Archives.

New Business

Dues are due.

The History of the Social Security Index will be in the Quarterly.

Please volunteer to do some indexing of the 1940 census by going to Family Search online. You can even pick what you want to index. The sooner it gets done, the sooner we will all be able to use it.

Elections -

Terry Micks was re-elected President

Joyce Krueger was re-elected Secretary

Bessie volunteered to bring treats for the March 27 meeting.

Program

Our program this month was working on the Genealogy Workshop for Beginners. Terry will be sending out a summary sheet on this.

Adjournment

The business portion of the meeting was adjourned at 7:36 pm. Thank you to Dennis for providing treats.

Respectfully submitted,

Joyce Krueger

Secretary

28 Feb 2012