Post by Moon Seeker on Mar 22, 2009 11:58:46 GMT -5
American Indian genealogy often a complex topic
Mary Torres/Harlingen Happenings
Whenever a group of people who are doing family history research get together, you will often hear someone remark that their Great-Great Grandmother or someone else in their family tree was an "Indian." Native American Genealogy is a fascinating and often times complex topic involving many Indian Tribes and Nations and some folklore.
To help you with your Native American research, this coming Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:15 a.m. in the Genealogy Bay of the Harlingen Public Library, the Tip O' Texas Genealogical Society is pleased to offer a special program by Rebecca Wedgbury Renteria, "Moving to Indian Territory: Can Family Tradition Survive Methodical Research?"
Rebecca was lucky enough to have a maternal great-grandmother who loved telling stories about the old folks back in Ozark County, Missouri, and even wrote one of those stories down. That story was the one that tells of her family moving from Missouri to the Chickasaw Reservation of Indian Territory (the future Garvin County, Oklahoma). Rebecca will be using this story to demonstrate how to methodically take apart family tradition and research for documentation to support or contest the story. This is an interesting story and a good example for beginning researchers to follow.
Rebecca, a current resident of Harlingen, was born in California and raised in Tucson, Ariz. She has researched her family history for 27 years with her American family lines concentrated in Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. She is currently enrolled online via the University of Toronto in the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. She is studying American Records and Librarianship with the eventual goal of becoming a certified genealogist and archive librarian. Rebecca is a volunteer in the archive room at the Harlingen Public Library and co-president of the Tip of Texas Genealogy Society.
Other programs, exhibits and activities of interest include:
First Baptist Church, 501 E. Van Buren, Harlingen
·100th Anniversary Celebration Weekend, March 28-29, 2009. For more information, visit www.fbcharlingen.org or call the church office.
Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum
·March 29, 2009: Last day to see current Exhibits, "Artisanry of Peru," Peruvian Folk Art "Student Art Exhibit" by, Texas State Technical College and Early College High School and "Stitched Together," Quilts by Frontera Quilt Guild.
·April 30, 2009 Reception for the "Great Depression in the Valley" by Norman Rozeff.
Tip O' Texas Genealogical Society
·April 16, 2009 - "Our Family Stories" by Julia Williams and Bonnie Jones
·April 23, 2009 - "What's New in Genealogy?" by Mary Torres
·April 26, 2009 - Hispanic Genealogy Group program by P. G. Cavazos, "The Life of Doña Estefana Goseascochea, Gone, But Not Forgotten."
Mary Torres can be contacted at torresmaro@att.net
www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/family_48453___article.html/rebecca_indian.html
Mary Torres/Harlingen Happenings
Whenever a group of people who are doing family history research get together, you will often hear someone remark that their Great-Great Grandmother or someone else in their family tree was an "Indian." Native American Genealogy is a fascinating and often times complex topic involving many Indian Tribes and Nations and some folklore.
To help you with your Native American research, this coming Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:15 a.m. in the Genealogy Bay of the Harlingen Public Library, the Tip O' Texas Genealogical Society is pleased to offer a special program by Rebecca Wedgbury Renteria, "Moving to Indian Territory: Can Family Tradition Survive Methodical Research?"
Rebecca was lucky enough to have a maternal great-grandmother who loved telling stories about the old folks back in Ozark County, Missouri, and even wrote one of those stories down. That story was the one that tells of her family moving from Missouri to the Chickasaw Reservation of Indian Territory (the future Garvin County, Oklahoma). Rebecca will be using this story to demonstrate how to methodically take apart family tradition and research for documentation to support or contest the story. This is an interesting story and a good example for beginning researchers to follow.
Rebecca, a current resident of Harlingen, was born in California and raised in Tucson, Ariz. She has researched her family history for 27 years with her American family lines concentrated in Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. She is currently enrolled online via the University of Toronto in the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. She is studying American Records and Librarianship with the eventual goal of becoming a certified genealogist and archive librarian. Rebecca is a volunteer in the archive room at the Harlingen Public Library and co-president of the Tip of Texas Genealogy Society.
Other programs, exhibits and activities of interest include:
First Baptist Church, 501 E. Van Buren, Harlingen
·100th Anniversary Celebration Weekend, March 28-29, 2009. For more information, visit www.fbcharlingen.org or call the church office.
Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum
·March 29, 2009: Last day to see current Exhibits, "Artisanry of Peru," Peruvian Folk Art "Student Art Exhibit" by, Texas State Technical College and Early College High School and "Stitched Together," Quilts by Frontera Quilt Guild.
·April 30, 2009 Reception for the "Great Depression in the Valley" by Norman Rozeff.
Tip O' Texas Genealogical Society
·April 16, 2009 - "Our Family Stories" by Julia Williams and Bonnie Jones
·April 23, 2009 - "What's New in Genealogy?" by Mary Torres
·April 26, 2009 - Hispanic Genealogy Group program by P. G. Cavazos, "The Life of Doña Estefana Goseascochea, Gone, But Not Forgotten."
Mary Torres can be contacted at torresmaro@att.net
www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/family_48453___article.html/rebecca_indian.html