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Committees:
Executive
Meets: 12:30 PM
Saturday
October 4, 2008
Mason City Room
Mason City Public Library
Mason City, Iowa |
Program
Meets: Immediately Following NCIGS Meeting
Saturday
October 4, 2008
Mason City Room
Mason City Public Library
Mason City, Iowa
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Obituary
Meets: 10:00 AM
Tuesday
October 14, 2008
Video Conference Room
Clear Lake Telephone Company
Clear Lake, Iowa |
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Oct. 4, 2008 |
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Program to be
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Year 2008 Programs
You are invited!
First Saturday of each
month. 1:30 PM
"Mason City Room" Mason City Public Library
 | January 5
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Meeting cancelled because of winter weather conditions.
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February
2 |
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Photo of three grandchildren of Soren Larson, the original
builder of the house. They came to
visit the house last July. |
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"Lake Mills
Historical Society"
Mildrid Nickson
will share the accomplishments of the Lake
Mills Historical Society from the time they
started meeting in an old one-room school
house. Learn about the challenges and
successes of renovating their current home .
. . a 1901 Victorian mansion.
"Traveling by Stage"
- Before railroads, early
travelers in Iowa climbed aboard the stagecoach.
Journeying along the Shell Rock River northward
from Cedar Falls, passengers could loosen their
jarred bones at two stops in the Floyd County
area.
LeNore Forbes guided members on a trip into the 19th
century at the Green and Rock Grove stage stops.
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March 1
Joyce Columbo of the
Mason City Public Library demonstrated (in the
reference room at the library) how to use the library
computers dedicated for research of databases to which
the library subscribes.
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Following this program,
we reassembled in our regular meeting room for a
little more programming, business meeting, and
refreshments. Loren Toomsen reported on the need for
recruits to the obituary committee program.
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March 20, 2008
I attended the library board meeting last
night. A year from now there will be many
changes in progress. We (NCIGS) will be
moved downstairs next to the archives
-- which made me want to jump up and shout,
"Amen!"
Dorothy
Paul
NCIGS President
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March 25, 2008
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This NCIGS website was moved to a new data and service
center at the end of March.
This move should greatly improve our
publishing experience.
Jim Rogers
said he would like to visit a service
center. Here are two photos of servers
in a typical array, in a typical 24/7
service center. I don't have pictures
of our service center but they all look
about the same -- only multiplied by 100
times. I have been in two centers and
the numbers of computers are humongous.
We are dealing with one of the best service
providers on the web.
We publish
(upload) our obits, etc., up to such a service
center. Like all things, centers go out of
date and have to be completely replaced.
That is what happened in March. --
Loren
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March 29, 2008
 This NCIGS website has just
completed a "migration" to a new server.
In this fast paced world computers completely
change once every 18 months. Our server (a
computer) itself needed to be retired, hence this
move to a new and more powerful service.
Expect this website to react much quicker to
your requests! And our beat goes on.
Enjoy!
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| April 5, 2008
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| May 3, 2008
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Genealogical Questions and Answers
or . . .
"My Visit to Salt Lake City."
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Marie Thompson: Genealogical Questions
and Answers |
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June 7, 2008
"Genealogical Detours"
/ Solving Problems with indirect
evidence.
Jay Fonkert, V.P. Minnesota Genealogical Society |
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July 5, 2008 |
NO MEETING due to the July 4th weekend celebrations.
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August
2, 2008
Terry Atkinson
Genealogy of Northern Ireland
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| September 6, 2008
James Wolf
Iowans in the Civil War and Resulting
Genealogy
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| October 4, 2008
Program to be announced . . .
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| November 1, 2008
"Arachnophobia"
Genealogy on The World Wide
Web / presented by the NCIGS Obituary Committee
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| December 6, 2008
Program to be announced . . .
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