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WELCOME TO THE NORTHERN ARIZONA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY - We are a non-profit dedicated to all aspects of genealogy, providing access to local records and other genealogical information. The Society serves genealogists throughout Yavapai and Coconino Counties. Explore our website and consider becoming a member.

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Benefits of Membership

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* Regular monthly meetings of genealogical interest, including professional speakers

* The Bulletin, our quarterly publication

*Assistance and mentoring with your genealogical research and problems

* Reduced rates for attendance at NAGS special events

* Membership in a like-minded group which understands your excitement over finding dead ancestors. Your membership helps the organization provide more professional programs and materials

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30 Nov 2017

Contact Us: Please feel free to contact us in writing: P.O. Box 695, Prescott, AZ 86302, use the Email Button below or the Web Form on the Contact Us page.

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2018 Events
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You are cordially invited to attend the Northern Arizona Genealogical Society's (NAGS) monthly meeting at the Family History Center, 1001 Ruth Street.   Doors will open at 1:30 pm with the meeting beginning at 2pm. Please park at the rear of the building and enter through the double doors in back. This facility is handicap accessible. We will be meeting in Room 20. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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March 24   A Common Thread
"Textiles played an important part in the lives of American colonists. Estate inventories indicate that bedding and bed curtains were among the most highly valued possessions, exceeded in value only by land, buildings, and, in rare instances, wrought silver." A Common Thread reveals that we all descend from weavers. From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, spinning and weaving innovations took different paths across cultures and continents. Making thread and cloth was at the core of European economies for centuries.   In Colonial American, weaving was a vital skill that required the whole household’s efforts. Their equipment and methods are familiar to modern hand weavers. Textiles played a central role in both the American and Industrial Revolutions and to migration patterns through the 1800s. Three generations of one immigrant family demonstrate the path from Scottish mill mechanic to an American “family of experts in the manufacture of textile fabrics.” Although hand weaving supposedly ended with the Industrial Revolution, hand weavers today use new materials and computers in their craft. Common Thread Handout

Mary Kelly is a member of the Mountain Spinners and Weavers in Prescott and the Midcoast Weavers in Maine. She always knew she would weave, but couldn’t explain why. Family genealogies and D.A.R. records document two lines of her family, however, by exploring other branches of her family tree, she unraveled the thread to her “weaving gene.”
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Meetings are open to the public and are held the fourth Saturday of the month (unless otherwise noted). The meeting starts at 2 pm. The doors open at 1:30pm for social time. Meetings are held at the LDS Church, 1001 Ruth Street. Please park in the rear and enter through the back using the double doors. This facility is handicap accessible.
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