Three Lakes Genealogical Society Meeting Minutes January 22, 2018 Members Present: Debby Selman, Robert Bailey, June McDuffy, Irene Farkas. Happy New Year. The meeting was called to order by President Debby Selman at 1:10 p.m. Treasurers Report: Treasurer Joyce Mogytych was not in attendance. The treasurers report was presented by Debby Selman. Old Business: Our last meeting was October 23, 2017. Those minutes were approved. November there was no meeting. December 11, 2017 we enjoyed our annual Christmas Luncheon. New Business: President Debby Selman explained that Erica Brewster will come to a meeting and explain the book adoption program. She is hoping that the TLGS members will adopt the books from family history room. Our program committee met on Wednesday January 17, 2018. It came up with a number of programs for 2018 as follows: * January 22, 2018 : Writing a Book. Due to the snowstorm and low attendance the program was postponed to another date yet to be determined. * February 26, 2018: (Demmer Library Lower Level) Expanding your research Different avenues for research, presented by Marge Behling. * March 26, 2018: (Reiter Center) Questions or Webinar * April 30, 2018: (Reiter Center) Day Trip to Wausau LDS Currently in planning stage. * May 21, 2018: (Reiter Center) This is the 3rd Monday. Military Presenters: Debby Selman & Robert Bailey. * June 25, 2018: (Reiter Center) Starting a family tree. Presenter: Roger Blocks. * July 30, 2018: (Reiter Center) This is the 5th Monday. Open House. Currently in planning stages. All TLGS meetings are normally held on the 4th Monday of the month at 1:00 p.m. There are a few changes to the schedule for this year 2018 due to the libraryÕs packing and moving prior to renovation work starting. Monday February 26, 2018 will be our last meeting at the Demmer Library. Meetings will be at the usual 1:00 p.m. time. A note from Charlene Roberts to keep in mind your contribution to our spring Tree Leaves publication coming soon. Obituary Project: Robert Bailey reported the years 1973-1979 have been completed thus far and ready to move to the next step. Irene Farkas reported that this section of our collection ends with August 1963. The next section of Three Lakes News spans 1931 to September 1963. Volunteers will be needed to help during this collection. It is work that can be done from your computer at home. Please contact Irene. No further New Business Debby Selman adjourned the meeting at 1:50 p.m. Program The program writing a book was postponed to another time yet to be determined. A discussion continued about how Bob Bailey sourced the information in his new book, and his ÒJust for funÓ project which stemmed from the Obit. Project. He was wondering just where did all these people come from. He was able to break down the statistics through the decades by determining place of birth. An interesting discovery. Perhaps he can print it for us and share it at another meeting. Where did these folks come from? It would be interesting to include our Pioneers to the present day. (Another job for Bob.) Anyway we would like to see that Genealogy can be fun. We also talked about Genealogy Bank.com a website some of us are enjoying. Ð Newspaper Discovery - $ membership required. Check it out. Respectfully Submitted Irene Farkas - Secretary