Tuesday,
February 11, the La Porte County Indiana Genealogical Society met at
the La Porte City Parks and Recreation Department Headquarters on
Pine Lake Avenue in La Porte. Twenty-two members and guests were in
attendance.
After
a business meeting presided over by President Dorothy Palmer, the
group enjoyed a presentation by local videographer Pam Pulice. She
noted that most of us tracing our families are trying to find a lot
more than the bare facts of births, marriages and deaths. We seek to
learn the stories and reasons why behind the facts. She emphasized
that everyone has a story; you are the only one who can tell the
entire story. She advised everyone to record now
what you did and why. Pulice illustrated a fine example of
story-telling in her video based on interviews with a lady who
married the American GI who she met in North Africa, in a 17-minute
video entitled Peggy’s
Memoir, Recollections of an English War Bride.
Next
month’s meeting, on March 11, will feature Marlene Polster, the
president of the North West Indiana Genealogical Society. She will
speak about preserving genealogical research.
The title of her talk is “What Will Happen to your Genealogical
Research when You Die?”
The
society meets at 7 pm on the second Tuesday of each month, weather
permitting, at the La Porte City Parks and Recreation Department
building at 250 Pine Lake Avenue. The public is welcome at all
meetings. For more information about the society's activities in
awards, research, abstracting, transcribing, indexing, publishing,
and records preservation, visit our web
site at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/.
A
decision by the Genealogist of the Year committee was announced at
the meeting. Beginning in 2014, the committee will consider
nominations for the award which name members of the society or
non-members. Details of the criteria for the award and a nomination
form can be found at the web site mentioned above.
The
society also has a blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com/.
There you can find summaries of meetings, news items about the
society, and a posting of several years of the society’s
newsletter.
