2000 Calendar . . .

January 1:  
Due to the New Years holiday the Society elected to not meet today but enjoy Y2K and the very special celebrations surrounding our entry into the new millennium.
 

February 5:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Vintage Clothes"  Suzanne Evans, Joice, presents our February program on "Vintage Clothes".  Suzanne found an old forgotten trunk full of turn of the century clothes in an attic.  The trunk belonged to her husbands late great aunt.  The aunts sister died at age 21, another sister died at age 41.  The clothing items are well preserved and tell interesting stories from the turn of the century.  They have been dry cleaned, brought back to life and may be modeled.
 

March 4:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Immigration and Ports of Entry"  March 4th is a perfect day to "March forth" into Immigration.  Gene Watson and Loren Toomsen present our March program with a background on the Processing Center in New Orleans and the Port of Baltimore, Maryland.  The program includes a slide show presentation about Ellis Island and the experiences of the immigrants early in the last century.
 

April 1: 
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"New NCIGS Brochure and Web Page!"  Our newly upgraded North Central Iowa Genealogical Society Web Page will be visited in a video-taped visit and our brand new brochure will be presented.  A dialog and preparation for the April 15th North Central Iowa Genealogy Fair.
 

April 15th: 
Field Trip - 10:00 a.m. / 4:00 p.m. 
North Central Iowa Genealogy Fair at PAF-Ways.  First Citizens National Bank Heritage Room.  Please use the southwest entrance to the bank.  Across the road from Walmart in Mason City, Iowa 50401
 

April 15th:
State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa History Forum, Des Moines, Iowa
 

May 5: 
Rummage Sale, held at the home of Audrey Huff, 1208 Sixth Street S.E., Mason City, Iowa 50401
 

May 6: (Set)  Meeting
1:30 p.m.
“Big Sister, Dixie Willson!”  Art Fischbeck, dubbed the “unofficial” historian of Mason City,  (515-423-0636) tells of books, short stories and even several movies based on works by Dixie Willson.  Dixie was as much an artist in her own right as her younger brother Meredith.  Art will also tell us about “Sketch Books” on North Central Iowas famous families that can be found in the library.
 

June 3:
No Meeting!  Band Festival Celebration and 1000 voice Barbershop Chorus across the street at "The Music Man Center."
 

August 5: (set)
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
“Have a Danish”
Tom and Joan Sawyer share a genealogy slide show trip to Denmark.  Excellent twists and surprises.
 

September 2: Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"Kin to a King!"  Ruth (nee Tweeten) Holtan, Forest City, has traced one of her trees back to a Nordic King Harold Hairfair -- yes he was blond -- born 849 AD and died 933 AD at the age of 83.  King Hairfair was one Viking who died in bed.  Ruth has quite a story to tell. 
 

October 7:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
"The Leibrand Private Collection"  Guests Ruth Leibrand and Carol Whiteis share the content and services of a very impressive genealogy collection located nearby in Forest City Iowa.
 

November 4:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
“Sod Houses!” 
Rita Goranson a program on Sod Houses in our ancestry. 
 

December 2:
Meeting 1:30 p.m.
Marla Zbornik, "Life is a Patchwork Quilt"