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MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING - 9 NOV 2000 October 12, 2000
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING - 12 OCTOBER 2000 September 14, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society
General Meeting Thursday September 14, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting Thursday August 10, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting Thursday July 13, 2000 June 8, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting Thursday June 8, 2000 May 11, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting April 13, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting March 9, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting February 10, 2000 Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting January 13, 2000
Ingham County Genealogy Society Meeting Minutes for Thursday, January 13, 2000
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Meeting was called to order at 7:05 by President John Castle. Meeting was temporarily adjourned for the presentation.
Jim Moses presented a program entitled "What Else Can You Find in Cemeteries"
A 10 minute break was declared and was followed by the 50-50 drawing, with Isabelle Wells being the big winner.
Meeting was reconvened. Motion was made by Tammy Parsons to accept minutes of October meeting. Seconded by Sally Landreville. Passed
Comments & Reports
Vice Pres - Sally Landreville indicated programs have been arranged thru June 2001.
Treasurer - Treasurers report indicates a balance of $3305.67 in checking Account and $3948.66 in savings. The savings account is for Microfilming.
Membership - Current membership is 116. New memberships: Sandra Newman, MaryAnn Woods - Linda Miller. Visitor was Eva Rupert.
Librarian - Mentioned contributions to the library. Volunteers are needed. Laser printer working well. Please turn in Ancestor charts and Spartan UPC labels.
Trustees - Alice Raatz brought photos from Seminar 2000 and 1st volume of historical photos. Lynne Castle: Will audit books and asked for volunteers to be on Budget committee. Volunteers are Alice Raatz, Sam Pardee, - Sally Landreville.
Valdeen Warren - Christmas Potluck will start at 6:00 PM on Dec 14th. Bring a dish to pass and table service. Will eat at 6:30 PM.
Jean Crawford indicated that we have merchandise available at reduced prices. Would like to clean out the supply. Indicated that we netted a profit of $996.00 from Seminar 2000. These monies are used to operate
the society.
President discussed the Mich Genealogical Council and the need to have to representatives to that board. Volunteers are Tammy Parsons - Sam Pardee.
Presidents comments. No executive board meeting in November.
New Business: Tammy Parsons volunteered to coordinate social activities in the absence of the Warrens. Appointments include Greg James to handle computer activities, Barb Smith to continue the Newsletter, and Alice Raatz to continue as Historian.
Bruce BeVier made motion to adjourn meeting and Sally Landreville seconded.
Next meeting is 14 December 2000, - will start at 6:00 PM.
Respectfully submitted by Sam Pardee, Recording Secretary.
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Meeting was called to order at 7:08 by the out-going president, Sam Pardee.
Twenty-five members were present at the meeting. Two guests were present, one being Tammy Parson's daughter, and one being a friend of Alice Raatz.
A motion to accept September minutes was made by Eldora Spooner and seconded by Sally Landreville. Passed.
Sam Pardee expressed his appreciation to the outgoing board of officers and committees. He then introduced the new officers (Pres - John Castle, V-P Sally Landreville, Treasurer Marge James, Recording Secretary - Sam Pardee, Membership Secretary - Jean Crawford, Librarian - Isabelle Wells,
Historian - Alice Raatz, Trustees - Lynn Castle & Alice Raatz.
Treasurer - Currently have $5496.05 in checking and savings.
Committee Reports -
Membership - Two new members, Sally Young of Ft Walton, FL and Donna Bussell of East Lansing, MI. Currently have 113 members in society.
Library - Isabelle Wells. Brief remarks on library operation. Also mentioned finding the book "A Pioneers Experience in Ingham County" thru research at State of Mich Library.
Trustee - Lynn Castle commented on establishment of budget committee.
Computer - Greg James indicated that a refurbished laser printer has been purchased for use with the computer in our research room. When operational will give us capability to do some of our own work instead of going to commercial copiers/printers.
Social Committee - Val Warren will coordinate until time to go to warmer climate. Preliminary plans are underway for christmas dinner.
Historian - Alice Raatz: Establishing another binder for society. Will bring to the Nov meeting.
Newsletter - Barb Smith asked members for queries to be placed in newsletters. The newsletter goes to all members & several other societies.
President - John Castle: General discussion on past happenings of the society. Indicated a need for a Delegate and Alternate to the Mich Genealogical Council.
Old Business: John Castle talked briefly about the Seminar 2000 to be conducted on 28 Oct 2000 by our Society. Jean Crawford indicated that as of meeting time there were 83 registered attendees.
New Business:
V-P Sally Landreville, who coordinates speakers/programs for monthly general membership meetings, gave schedule as follows:
Nov 2000 - Jim Moses "What Else Can You Find in Cemeteries"
Dec 2000 - Christmas potluck & program
Jan 2001 - Round Table
Feb 2001 - Jim Meyerle - History of Southern Mich
Mar 2001 - Clarence Hodges "Land Records Research"
Apr 2001 - Shirley Hodges -
May 2001 - Morris Thomas "Land"
Sally Landreville proposed an Honorary Membership to ICGS be given to Jim Moses for being Speaker. General discussion was held, and Sally Landreville made motion to give an Honorary Membership to Jim Moses. Seconded by Lynne Castle, and passed unanimously.
Motion made by Isabelle Wells to adjourn meeting. Meeting was adjourned.
Sam Pardee, Recording Secretary
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Called to order at 7:35 pm by Sam Pardee, President
Twenty-two members were present at tonights monthly meeting. Ralph Bird joined the society in August, he is researching the surnames: Bird; Clay; Mustard; Lowell; DeArmond.
A motion to accept last months minutes was made by Sally Landreville, seconded by Joyce Darrow. Passed.
Vice President Lynn Brown stated the speaker for the November meeting will be Jim Mosses, speaking on "What Else You Can Find in Cemeteries."
Membership Secretary John Castle reminded membership that society dues are now payable, and can be mailed to I.C.G.S. P.O. Box 85, Mason, Mi. $10 Single and $15 Family membership dues.
A letter has been mailed to the Vevay Township Clerk requesting the continued use of our meeting room through December 2001. We presently pay no room rental and hopefully will not for the coming year.
Joyce Darrow, our society Librarian for the past three years is stepping down and the entire membership is appreciative of the time and effort she has given to making the Reference Room a source of pride. She thanked the members that have volunteered to staff the room on Tuesday and Saturday.
Our thanks to Cynthia Grostick for a book donation to the library. It is clipping of obituaries, births and news items extracted from the Stockbridge Town Crier newspapers for the year 1999.
Isabelle Wells stated she is still collecting Spartan Brand Labels. The society receives $20 for each 1000 labels submitted to the Spartan Company. Isabelle is also looking for a book titled, "A Pioneer's Experience in Ingham County (MI)." If you know of this book please contact the society.
Tonight was the election of society offers for the year 2000/2001. The Nomination Committee submitted the following names to the membership for consideration.
Nomination of John Castle for President. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Bartlett Smith and Seconded by Sally Landreville to close the Nomination. Motion passed and John Castle was elected President.
Nomination of Sally Landreville for Vice President. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Loraine Larkins and Seconded by Lynn Brown to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Sally Landreville was elected Vice President.
Nomination of Sam Pardee for Recording Secretary. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Bartlett Smith and Seconded by Lynn Brown to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Sam Pardee was elected Recording Secretary.
Nomination of Marjorie James for Treasurer. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Sally Landreville and Seconded by Joyce Darrow to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Marjorie James was elected Treasurer.
Nomination of Isabelle Wells for Librarian. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Joyce Darrow and Seconded by Sally Landreville to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Isabelle Wells was elected Librarian.
Nomination of Jean Crawford for Membership Secretary. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Lynne Castle and Seconded by Sally Landreville to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Jean Crawford elected Membership Secretary.
Nomination of Alice Raatz for Trustee. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Lynne Castle and Seconded by Joyce Darrow to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Alice Raatz elected Trustee.
Nomination of Lynne Castle for Trustee. No nominations from the floor. Motion by Loraine Larkins and Seconded by Sally Landreville to close the Nomination. Motion passed and Lynne Castle elected Trustee.
Sam Pardee announced that the October 28, 2000 seminar is going forward but we are in need of more registrations. The cost break even point is 79 paid registrations by October 15th and as of tonight we have received only 46 seminar registrations and 8 vendor registrations. A sheet was distributed outlining the financial cost to hold the seminar and if we do not break even the shortfall will be paid from the Treasury.
At the August 31st Executive Board Meeting the officers felt that all members should pay to attend the seminar. If a member does not wish to register than they will not be asked to work at the seminar. At this meeting the Executive Board recommended that no hotel type seminars be planned for 2001 but we should explore smaller brown bag workshops and seminars for the coming year.
Isabelle Wells proposed that the society monthly meeting times be changed so they would start a 7:00 PM instead of the present 7:30 PM. A motion was made by Lynne Castle and seconded by Sally Landreville to change the meeting time to 7:00 PM. Seventeen members voted YES; two members voted NO; and three members abstained. This new time will start with the October 12, 2000 meeting at Vevay Twp. Hall.
Lynne Castle announced that the society received a 19" Sanyo TV donated by the husband of Alice Raatz, to be used for a raffle or door prize drawing for the seminar. A discussion was held regarding the Michigan Gaming laws regarding raffles. Barbara Smith suggested we hold a "Silent Auction" for the TV at the seminar.
The program for tonight was by Sally Landreville on the D.A.R., and the work she has done on her application for membership into the society.
Motion to close the meeting was made and approved.
Comments from our outgoing Recording Secretary:
It has been a great learning experience for me as recording secretary and I give my thanks to all of you for making it enjoyable. I could not have done it without the help and patience of the society. I look forward to being a member and will be at all meetings and events as possible.
Margie Griffin, Recording Secretary
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The monthly meeting of the INGHAM COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY was held at the Vevay Township Hall, Mason, MI.
The meeting was called to order at 7:34 PM by Sam Pardee, President.
Twenty five persons were in attendance, with two guest, Norman Osborn and Ralph Bird.
The minutes of the July meeting were distributed and reviewed. Ray Yeutter made a motion the minutes be accepted, seconded by Bill Atkinson. Motion passed.
Membership Secretary, John Castle, said one new member, Linda Palmer, of Ann Arbor joined our society in July. She is researching surnames, Atwood; Wilson; Bird; Hobart and Skadan.
The society membership dues are payable in September 2000 for the fiscal year, October 2000 to Sept. 2001 The dues are $10 for a single and $15.00 for a family membership.
The Castle's reported the society will receive a $6000 grant from the Abrams Foundation in the spring of 2001 to microfilm two county newspapers. The "Ingham County News" newspapers, published from 1898 through 1934 will be filmed first, the estimated cost will be $3500 to $4000. The remaining funds from the grant will be used towards filming the "Stockbridge" newspapers.
One bound volume of the "Williamston Enterprise" newspapers, published May 8, 1895 to April 29, 1896 will be microfilmed next month.
Librarian Joyce Darrow discussed the new books that were recently purchased by Isabelle Wells for the society reference room. Also book donations were received from Bill Atkinson, Cynthia Theusch and Sally Landreville for the reference room in the Mason Public Library.
Sally inquired about our founding father, Edward Parker, and we all wish him well. Ed and his wife Louise, now live in Lansing, MI.
Jean Crawford gave a report of the Nominating Committee. The following is their slate of officers for the coming fiscal year that will be presented at the September 2000 meeting:
President - no nominee; Vice President - Sally Landreville; Recording Secretary - Sam Pardee; Treasurer - Marjorie James; Membership Secretary - John Castle; Trustee's - Jean Crawford and Lynne Castle; Librarian - Isabelle Wells.
Sam Pardee gave a report on the Ft. Wayne, IN. Millennium Conference, held on July 19-22, 2000.
Bill Atkinson distributed materials on the Global Family History Fair 2000, which is being held on Oct. 14 & 15, in Milton, Ontario Canada. He also explained that the Eaton County Genealogical Society is hosting a one day bus trip to the Allen County Public Library on September 30, 2000.
Member Jesse Lasorda donated a Bell & Howell overhead projector to the society.
After the coffee break the program was a round table genealogical discussion. New members were encouraged to discuss their research problems.
Motion made by Sally Landreville to close the meeting.
Submitted by John Castle (sub for secretary, Margie Griffin)
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Called to order at 7:35 by Sam Pardee, President
Twenty-eight persons were present at tonights monthly meeting. Guests were Velma Benalluck; Vivian Geer; and Norman Osborn. We hope you enjoyed our meeting and will join us again.
The society membership now totals 131 members, with 20 members living in states other than Michigan.
A motion to accept last month's minutes as they stand was made by Sally Landreville, second by Lynn Brown and accepted.
A motion to accept this evening's agenda was made by Velma Lundy and second by Sally Landreville.
Our Librarian, Joyce Darrow informed the society that she will be resigning at the end of this year's term. She has been a great help to many folks that visited our research room and also to many of the society's members. I am sure I speak for all of us in saying "Thank You for a great job."
Our program for this month was "Preparing to do Research in Washington D.C." by guest speaker Cynthia Theusch
Next months meeting will be another roundtable session in which members may find some answers to their evasive problems.
We need more recipes for our Bakeless Bake Sale! And Spartan Labels
Meeting ended at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Recording Secretary
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Called to order at 7:35 by Sam Pardee, President
Thirty persons were present at tonights monthly meeting. Guests were Gloria Young, Jackie Kipp, Andy Mixter and Geven Callahan. Thank you for coming to our meeting. We also welcome Jackie Kipp as a new member this evening.
Our meeting began with the introduction of Mary Griffes from the LDS Library. Her program was "Organizing your Genealogy".
A motion was made by Marion Bevier to accept last months minutes as written, and 2nd by Maurice Bailey, motion passed.
Barbara Smith announced that our newsletter would be ready for next months meeting.
We need more recipes for our Bakeless Bake Sale! And Spartan Labels.
John Castle brought a couple of books that had been donated to our Genealogy Reference Room by Marge James. They are now in the reference room for all to enjoy.
Meeting ended at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Recording Secretary
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Minutes for Thursday May 11, 2000
Called to order at 7:35 by Sam Pardee, President
Twenty-four members were present at to-nights monthly meeting. James Zimmerman, a visitor to the April meeting joined our genealogical Society tonight. Welcome James and Janice!
Motion to Accept April 13th minutes as read was made by Joyce Yeutter and seconded by Sally Landreville. The motion accepted.
Committee's Reports: Joyce Darrow brought the Book "William and Elizabeth Morrman Family 1822-1994 it has many names from the Leslie surrounding area mentioned it.
General Business:
Barbara Smith would like any type of craft or white Elephant gift for our seminar give away and door prizes.
It has been noted that Our Recording Secretary, Margie Griffin will be leaving after July so if anyone is interested in taking the job please get in touch with Sam Pardee, John Castle or Margie Griffin Thank you.
We will also need someone to work on the seminar vendors listing.
We need more recipes for our Bakeless Bake Sale! And Spartan Labels.
John Castle reported that member; Cynthia Gostick wanted to be involved along with our society in the microfilming of the "Stockbridge Town Crier" that was published from 1907 to the present. A meeting was than set up for Saturday, May 13th at the Stockbridge Public Library with the owner of the papers, members of the Livingston County Genealogical Society, herself and members of our society. At this meeting it will be discussed the terms our society will microfilm the papers. Sally Landreville made the motion that a microfilming group is allowed to proceed and secure all the needed information to present to the executive board on this project. The motion was seconded by Lynn Brown. Motion was passed.
The remaining time of the meeting was spent hearing other member's genealogical stories.
Margie Griffin, Recording Secretary
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Minutes for Thursday, April 13, 2000
Called to order at 7:35 by Sam Pardee, President
28 persons were present at to-nights monthly meeting.
Visitors were Carol & Andy Mixter of Lansing and Jim Zimmerman of Holt, MI.
We are happy to accept two new members since our March Meeting:
Darlene Fedewa of Mt.Pleasant, MI.
Jesse & Sharine Lasorda of Lansing, MI.
Lynn Brown, Maurice Bailey, as written, made motion to accept minutes of March meeting, 2nd the motion. The motion accepted.
Motion was made by Sally Landreville to accept the Agenda as follow and 2nd by Lynn Brown. Motion approved.
General Business:
Evenings Speaker: Betty Driscoll is from St. Johns and dedicated to the restoration of old cemeteries in that area. Betty brought several pictures of projects completed and in process.
Officers reports:
Committee's Reports: Joyce Darrow brought a few new books purchased at the Book Fair for our Research Room.
"Through the years 1847- 1947 Victoria History of Greater Lansing"
"The Map guide to US Federal census 1790- 1920"
"The Ledgers Directory to 1878"
"Saw Mills and Sleigh Bells, stories of Mid Michigan settlers" are just a few.
Unfinished Business:
New business:
John Castle made the motion to adjourn tonight's meeting, Tammy Parsons 2nd the motion. Meeting adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Recording Secretary
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Minutes for Thursday, March 9, 2000
Meeting was called to order at 7:35 P.M. by President, Sam Pardee
23 members were present for this month meeting.
New members since February 10th, meetings are:
Cluster H Smith, 4814 Tressa Dr., Lansing, Michigan
Jean S Wilson, 8432 Willow Creek St., Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Barbara J. Knuth, 5714 LeBaron Ct., East Lansing, Michigan
Lynn Brown made the motion to accept the minutes of last month's meeting as stated, motion seconded by Maurice Bailey, and carried.
Jean Crawford brought up the Book Fair coming up April 2nd and we welcome all to come also anyone that wishes to help out that day please get in touch with Jean Crawford.
Lynne Castle mentioned Our Luncheon at the THE MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was first stated that it would be on Sat. July 22, 2000. It will now be on Friday, July 21, 2000 if your are planning to attend.
Joyce Darrow brought a map of Leslie made in 1883. This map will be in our Reference Room for all to view. There will also be a Reference Room volunteer meeting on March 30th at 2:00 P.M. in the basement of the Mason Library. Please leave books you use in the Reference Room on the desk unless you are sure where they belong on the shelves. Thank you.
The rest of our time was spent on doing projects for our Reference Room.
Lynne Castle made the motion the meeting be closed, Meeting ended at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Secretary
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Minutes for Thursday, February 10, 2000
Meeting was called to order at 7:40 P.M. by President, Sam Pardee
25 members, 1 new member; and 7 guests were present at tonights monthly meeting.
The guests were, Cluster Smith; Erica Childs; Shula Triplett; Donna Dix; Barbara Knuth; Jim & Lois Perkins. Thank you all for visiting our society.
New member, Patricia Bowen McDevitt, of Ocalla, Florida is researching the surnames, Gier and Brown.
Our new member tonight, Dewey E. Marlatt, Sr. of Holt, Michigan is researching the surnames, Marlatt; Bacon: Collins; and Tyler.
Sally Landreville made the motion to accept the minutes of last month's meeting as stated; motion seconded by Lynn Brown, and carried.
Our Speaker of the night was Shirley Hodges: speaking on the subject "Me and My Computer"
Our 50/50 winner; Betty Jean Dean, donated her winnings of $25.00 to the Microfilming Newspaper fund. Thank you Betty.
Next months meeting will be a members workshop in hopes, that together, we can finish a few of the projects from our research room.
Our Ingham County Democrat Project is well on it's way to be microfilmed. A Big THANK YOU to John & Lynne Castle and others who gave their time and efforts to make it a success.
Our seminar is coming along great but we do need donations of any thing that can be used as door prizes. So all Handcrafters help us out if you have something to offer as a donation. Also we need things for our freebies.
Lynne Castle made the motion the meeting be closed, seconded by Sally Landreville. Meeting ended at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Secretary
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24 members and two guests were present at tonight's regular monthly meeting.
Our guests were Erica Childs, niece of Cynthia Grostick and Carol Callard, this evening's speaker.
Two new memberships were received since our December meeting.
John H. Bennett, Granite Bay, California and Sue Hinton, Coupeville, Washington.
President, Sam Pardee, called meeting to order at 7:30 P.M.
A motion to accept last month's minutes was made by Tammy Parsons and seconded by Lynne Castle.
Our president, Sam Pardee, introduced our evening's speaker, Carol Callard from the Library of Michigan. Carol is very informed on the resources located at the Library and explained what some of the topics consisted of and how to put them to use in researching.
John reported on our project of filming the Ingham County Democrat and explained that we will take $1,500 from our account and we are hoping to get the other $1,500 from the Mid-Michigan Genealogy Society to make the $3,000 needed to film the papers. The project is a very fragile job, due to the condition and age of the papers and he is asking any member that can help prepare these papers for filming to get in touch with him. It sometimes takes ironing one sheet at a time to get the wrinkles out, but it is well worth the time.
Barbara Smith said we have over 100 new volumes of the Ingham County newspapers in the newspaper room. She also passed out certificates for our "Adopt a book" project to Sam Pardee and others.
Joyce Darrow brought a few new books from our research room to show us. Some of them were: The History of the Lansing Police by Pat Hiyden, The beginning of Okemos, A listing of Mason Business Men and 1825-1847 Northern Lansing.
Tammy Parsons suggested that we use next month's meeting as a workshop for the many projects our Research Room is working on. By bringing the things to the meeting, members that are unable to be at the Library when the projects are being done, get an opportunity to help. It was agreed by all that this would be great.
Meeting was ended at 9:00 P.M.
Margie Griffin, Secretary