PCGS Monthly Meeting: Saturday, August 19th

When: Saturday, 19 Aug 2023, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Where: Hybrid Meeting - Your choice - In Person or Virtually via Zoom

In Person: Truly Nolen Leadership Training Center, 436 S. Williams Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85711

First Speaker: Susan Fabian

City Directories

Census records are a great source of information about your ancestors, but they were only reported every ten years. With city directories, you can discover where your ancestors lived, the occupations they had, and who their family members and FAN club were between those years including that all important 1880 to 1900 period when no federal census exists.

In this presentation we’ll discuss what city directories are, what information they contain, where to find them, and the clues they contain for further research. There will be several mini case studies showing how genealogical questions were answered, information from other research was correlated, and brick walls were broken down using city directories.  

Featured Speaker: Catherine W. Desmarais

Finding Families: The Genealogist’s Role in Military Repatriation

Did you know that the Department of Defense still searches for unaccounted-for soldiers from past conflicts back to World War Two? Learn about the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s program and the role of the genealogist in finding next-of-kin and family DNA donors. Catherine will also share soldiers’ and families’ stories.