NORTHERN ARIZONA
           GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY    
   (NAGS)

      P.O. Box 695
                 Prescott, AZ 86302       

Monthly Programs

Unless otherwise noted, programs are held at the LDS Church, 1001 Ruth Street, on the fourth Saturday of the month at 2 p.m.  The doors open at 1:30 p.m. for social time.  The LDS Church is handicap accessible.​​​


​2018 Program Schedule 
             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.  We will be meeting in Room 20.  The meeting is free and open to the public.

24 March @ 2:00 p.m. --  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.
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.”               Common Thread Handout

24 February   Richard Norman will join NAGS to discuss and answer questions of how family history charts and books are handled and printed at A&E Reprographics.  Anyone considering displaying a professionally printed family tree chart or publishing a genealogy book will gain insights into the processes of commercial printing in the Quad Cities area.  Knowing what formats are necessary may save time as you organize your project.  Mr. Norman will bring examples of some printed genealogical projects.

January 27   John Thorne, a member of NAGS, will relate the exciting history of the “The Boston Tea Party and The Last Surviving Member.”  The Boston Tea Party of 16 December 1773, was a key event that lead to the American Revolutionary War.  The "last surviving member" was David Kennison who allegedly died at the age of 115 in Chicago on 24 February 1852, having married 4 wives and fathered 22 children over his long life.  After the Boston Tea Party, David participated in numerous battles during the Revolutionary War and later the War of 1812.  He was granted a government pension for his military service.  Ripley's Believe It or Not featured David Kennison in its 1976 bicentennial Book of Americana.  His life is also documented in other more authoritative (historical) publications.  David Kennison is the speaker's 4th great-grandfather, hence John Thorne is keenly interested in the Boston Tea Party and has done extensive genealogical research on this particular participant.

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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. ​Map 


28 April @ 2:00 p.m. --

26 May @ 2:00 p.m. --

23 June @ 2:00 p.m. -- ​

25 August @ 2:00 p.m. --

22 September @ 2:00 p.m. --

27 October @ 2:00 p.m.


06 mar 18