Our society will be meeting in person or on Zoom at 10 am on October 19 in the Prairie Sage One Room at the Fort Collins Senior Center for our monthly programs. We hold a hybrid meeting in person and using our Zoom video service. Capacity is 50 persons in the Prairie Sage One room. Lots of free parking at the senior center. We look forward to seeing you there!
Visitors (not LCGS members) who wish to attend via Zoom (or in person) need to register below to receive the Zoom info and handout.
President Larry Doyle provides a brief overview of our society with the latest committee reports followed by today’s program.
Program Information
Our October 19th Topic: ” What Can Postal Records Tell Us about Our Ancestors and the Communities Where They Lived”
Description:
Most talks on post offices focus on them as federal employees — for those seeking to document family members who worked for the post office. Post offices aren’t just about employees or even the mail! Post offices used to define communities, and people used their location to define where they lived. If you want to know where a small community was located, see if it had a post office. Most of us receive our newspapers and magazines directly from the publisher, either printed or electronic, or purchased in a store. These subscriptions used to be handled at the post office. Wouldn’t you like to see great-great-grandpa’s subscription list? These subscriptions provide insight about a person, often including religious and/or political leanings, hobbies, news interests, and much more. These newspaper subscription records are often organized by customers! We can gain a personal perspective on our ancestors while learning the reading habits of the larger community. Priceless!
Presenter Profile:
Diane L Richard, MEng & MBA, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com, has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and in 2024, celebrates her 20th anniversary of professionally researching client ancestors while also channeling the “inner teacher” in her by sharing her knowledge via the written and spoken word.
She regularly contributed to Internet Genealogy (2006-2023) as an author, writing a regular Net Notes column and authoring over 500 articles. From 2010-2017, Diane edited Upfront with NGS, the National Genealogical Society’s blog, and published over 2000 posts. She spent a decade as editor of Wake Treasures, the journal of the Wake County Genealogical Society, and since 2016, she has been the editor of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) journal.
As an international speaker, she has given hundreds of webinars and in-person programs (coast-to-coast and in Canada), conference presentations, workshops, and local meeting programs about the availability and richness of all kinds of records relevant and leverageable by genealogists and the strategies and tips to exploit these records and research tactics most effectively. She has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? (Bryan Cranston episode).
After living in the South for over three decades, she has a special interest in researching the formerly enslaved, their descendants, and Free Persons of Color (FPOC). In 2019, she published Tracing Your Ancestors — African American Research: A Practical Guide via Moorshead Publications.
She is co-founder of GenWebinars, https://genwebinars.com/, launched in May 2024, which provides direct-to-consumer live, online, in-depth, interactive genealogy webinars.
She is Vice President of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), established in 2019, http://nchistoricalrecords.org/, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public access to high-quality images of original records and other related information useful to researching North Carolina history and genealogy.
She is co-founder of Tar Heel Discoveries, established in 2018, https://tarheeldiscoveries.com/, which offers in-person, real-time, targeted, focused research assistance leading individuals or small groups to new family discoveries at the State Archives of North Carolina & the Government & Heritage Library.
Diane L. Richard
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Reminder: Visitors are welcome and can register below to receive the Zoom info and handout!
Be sure to use our Thursday afternoon (except holiday weeks) genealogy help session from 1 to 3 pm at the Fort Collins Downtown Library. Members or visitors: please send an email to [email protected] with your request, and if for an ancestor, please send your family tree info from Ancestry, MyHeritage or a family tree image from your genealogy software.
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