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Monday, January 14, 2019
Getting Ready to Write an Ancestor's Story (SCGS Meeting)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Alissa Stoehr
Take a deep breath! What is the story you want to tell? Where do you start your story? Do you have your research, images, and documentation organized and easily accessible? Who is your audience?
(Assignment: write a synopsis, or preface to your story, along with an Ancestor profile fo rthe main character(s) of your story.) |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Changing Demographics in Your Ancestors' Time (Genealogy Plus!)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Paul Lasley
Dr. Lasley returns to discuss change and shifts in social strata: how lives changed due to influences and pressures of advertising, urbanism, consumerism, emerging professions and technology |
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Genealogy and Computer Help Session (Help Session)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your genealogy and computer questions and we'll try to help you find a solution. |
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Monday, February 11, 2019
Study Boards and Outlines (SCGS Meeting)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Alissa Stoehr
This presentation will deal with breaking down your story into segments or chapters to create the flow.
Is further research needed to color a segment?
(Assignment: Write a brief paragraph for each segment.)
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Writing Joy! Emma's Story (Genealogy Plus!)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Alice Hoyt Veen, CG
Research identifies our ancestors by linking individual to families and families to generations. But to truly understand their lives we must discover and share their stories. This case study presentation explores techniques for reconstructing the past and effectively tell a family's multigenerational history. This is "Emma's story." |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Genealogy and Computer Help Session (Help Session)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your genealogy and computer questions and we'll try to help you find a solution. |
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Monday, March 11, 2019
Write! (SCGS Meeting)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Alissa Stoehr
Write! Now you have your ancestor profile, the preface, astory board which describes the content and flow of your story ... time to write. Let's practice a bit ... |
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Scanning and Storing Documents and Images (Genealogy Plus!)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speakers: Cris Nagla, Dennis Allen
Cris and Dennis will be bring their scanners and demonstrating how to scan and store your valuable images on your computer. |
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Genealogy and Computer Help Session (Help Session)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your genealogy and computer questions and we'll try to help you find a solution. |
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Monday, April 8, 2019
Questions? Hit a Block? Help is Here. (SCGS Meeting)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Alissa Stoehr
This session will focus on compiling and printing your story. What about self-publishing?
Question and answer, discussion. |
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
"Remember the Ladies," said Abbigale to John... (Genealogy Plus!)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Speaker: Dr. Alissa Soehr, Iowa State University
It is challenging to find out much about our female ancestors due to legalities and norms of the times in which they lived. Women were allowed to ...lots of things! Women were "respectable roles" in lifes, roles were dicated by men, beliefs and law. Some women rebelled, most didn't. |
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Genealogy and Computer Help Session (Help Session)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your genealogy and computer questions and we'll try to help you find a solution. |
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Monday, May 13, 2019
Telling Your Story: Wrap-up (SCGS Meeting)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
We've worked hard all year on "telling our story" and now it's show time! Selected stories will be read. |
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Ask the Experts! (Genealogy Plus!)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your questions about genealogical research, documentation, writing your family story, how-to-do this or that, where to write for a resourc, where to find a resource and more. |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Genealogy and Computer Help Session (Help Session)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Ames Public Library Auditorium, 515 Douglas Ave., Ames, Iowa
Bring your genealogy and computer questions and we'll try to help you find a solution. |
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
Genealogy Workshop (Genealogy)
9:30 am to 4:00 pm Stanhope Community Center, 600 Main Street, Stanhope Iowa 50246
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