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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.

See News/Events for upcoming Genealogical Zoom Meetings available to NAGS members!

NAGS Monthly Meetings, 4th Saturday of the Month @ 1 PM:

Saturday, 25 February 2023 - "Focused Research: Using Research Plans"
Lisa Gorrell ~ 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm ~

Recording Available until end of March . . .
please watch this research plan presentation in order
to improve your research potential!

Do you feel like your research just goes in circles, that you keep finding the same information, or you have brick walls you can't solve? Being focused in your research will bring better results. This can be done by using research plans. Lisa will explain how to create and use a research plan to help keep you on focus in your research and get better results.

Lisa S. Gorrell is a Certified Genealogist®, who is graduate of the ProGen program and an alumnus of the following many genealogical institutes. She teaches genealogy courses and lectures to societies. She is also a founding member of the new Applied Genealogy Institute. She has served on the boards of local genealogical societies and is currently the recording secretary with the Contra Costa Historical Society. She volunteers with the historical society at their archives in Martinez. She enjoys giving genealogy presentations and writing about her family on two blogs:
“Mam-ma’s Southern Family” http://mam-massouthernfamily.blogspot.com/ and “My Trails into the Past” http://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/. She has also written a three-generation family history about her husband’s Swedish ancestors.

Recording of the meeting at this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/J-JrGk0tq7Dn8GU2EP68cLslNO7Z-LA-8T2BhQVjDuuzh6aweIWirGWlHOgxGWze.L4p43Nv2q9CUjEsL
Passcode: N%PewzK7

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

Saturday, 25 March 2023 - "Get Ready to Write About Your Family"
~Mary Kelly ~
Get Ready to Write About Your Family.

What’s stopping you?

Your project is too big. You don’t know where to begin. You fear the blank page. There are remedies for these stumbling blocks and more.

A start-to-finish approach will help you define the scope of your project and slice it into achievable tasks. Techniques and handouts will help you get organized, build a work plan, spark your writing, and track your progress. Tips and pet peeves will make your writing readable and evade common pitfalls. Resources for writing and publishing are literally at your fingertips. Take advantage of lessons learned to get ready to write about your family.

NAGS member, Mary Kelly, will share her trial-and-error experiences as shepherd of a project for her D.A.R. chapter in Maine. They are wrapping up a book about 40 patriots of the American Revolution and War of 1812 honored in one cemetery. As project manager, Mary tapped her experience in project analysis and strategic planning. She developed forms for standard data collection and task management. She created prompts for story ideas and massaged chapter formats. As a contributing writer and editor, she investigated standard book structure, story development, publishing options and writing tools. She adapted the book’s chapter format to write stories of three generations of her own family.

Please Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO6qpjwjHNS7_WfKf_bzk3dZjUbd7vo7

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Saturday, 22 April 2023 - 3rd Annual Arizona Genealogy Day

To register, click on
https://azsos.libcal.com/calendar/starl/azgenday23

The Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board
& The Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records
present a free, virtual event:
3rd Annual Arizona Genealogy Day
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Important Details

Registration is FREE!
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
The presentations will be on Zoom.
To view select past recordings from this and other genealogy events from the State of Arizona Research Library, click here.
Please note that this event will be recorded and recordings made available to registrants for a specified amount of time. More information and links will be shared a couple of days after the event.
If you have any questions, please contact us at https://azsos.libanswers.com/form
Schedule (all times listed are Mountain Standard Time)

8:30 am - 9:00 am      Virtual doors will open at 8:30 am

9:00 am - 10:00 am. J. Mark Lowe, FUGA - "Missing People: Fractured Relationships, Divorce and Murder"
We often accept a person missing from a census enumeration without question. When should we look deeper, examine the clues, and ask more questions? Sometimes a closer look and a new perspective is needed to see the real story.

10:00 am - 10:15 am   Break

10:15 am - 11:15 am Ari Wilkins - "Reconstructing Communities Using Sanborn Maps, Census Records, and City Directories”
Recreating neighborhoods can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. This lecture will demonstrate ways to build a map using Sanborn Fire insurance maps, census records, and city directories in Google Maps.

11:15 am - 11:30 am Break

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Elizabeth Hodges, MA, MSLIS - "If These Walls Could Talk: How to Research Your Home"
As family historians, we all love a good story, and what is a better storyteller than an old house? Join Senior Librarian Elizabeth Hodges from the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana for an introduction to house history research and learn how to shape the story of a home and its residents through maps, directories, censuses, deeds, and other records!

12:30 pm - 12:45 pm Break

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Wendi Goen, MA, and Yahm Levin, MLIS - "Arizona Genealogy 101"
Join us for Arizona Genealogy 101! In addition to providing a broad strokes overview of the valuable genealogical resources in the Arizona State Archives and the State of Arizona Research Library, we will show you how to best navigate our online platforms, use our collections in tandem to dig deeper into genealogical puzzles, and point you to other Arizona resources that should not be overlooked when researching Arizona ancestors.

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Break

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Cyndi Ingle - "Crafting Genealogical Proof"
An introduction to The What, the Why and the How of writing a genealogical proof statement, summary, or argument. How to take your research and deductions from documents (and your brain) and put it together on paper for future generations and researchers.

Speaker Bios & registration also available via this link-

Ctrl + Click to follow the link:
https://azsos.libcal.com/event/10044583

Saturday, 20 May 2023 - Come at 1 pm to the Family History Center on Ruth Street, Prescott.
Time to Share Who, What, Where, When & How your Genealogical Adventures Continue.

[Meeting 3rd Saturday because of Memorial Day] -

Arizona State Library offers lectures - must register as space is limited

- https://azsos.libcal.com/

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GETTING STARTED WITH ZOOM - You may connect by using a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile telephone. Each type of device will participate in the meeting a little differently. For tablet and mobile you may want to download the Zoom App. You can download the Zoom Client app. For iOS devices look in the app store for “Zoom Cloud Meetings” and for Android it’s in Google Play. Alternately you can get the download at https://ZOOM.us/download#client_4meeting

Here is a link to a 1 minute YouTube Video "How to Join a Zoom Meeting."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkCmbvAHQQ
If you just want to sit in on a Zoom meeting all you need is the ability to watch a video on your computer. If you want to participate you need a microphone. Many computers have a speaker and a microphone built in. If yours does not, you can obtain a headset with a boom microphone. External speakers will improve your experience. If you want to be seen by others you need a web camera. If your computer does not have a camera you can purchase one.
There is a good video tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8vQDfSzdY
And zoom.us has some demonstrations.
To run a test of your setup type zoom.us/test into your search bar.

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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 1:00 pm. Meetings during the pandemic will be held online via Zoom.
Email: AskNagsPrescottAz@gmail.com for meeting information.

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