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We hope that your compilations of family records and new insights into your family histories have been productive and that you now have draft manuscripts to share with the group. If you have been working on a manuscript that you would like to have reviewed, please let me know.
We all have different writing skills and experience levels, and we enjoy helping each other. Whether the issue concerns grammar, comma usage, spelling variations, or those fiendish footnotes, we welcome the opportunity to discuss and debate it.
We are looking for manuscripts to review at the 2025 meetings (Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5, and June 2). Your participation is important in holding the meetings and sharing your experience in preparing manuscripts for family, friends, community archives and libraries, and publication.
Join us at the online Zoom meeting to learn how historical context can be incorporated into family history narratives. You will also see how two stories can be told simultaneously, placing the protagonist in the center of the action, adding suspense, injecting drama, and using dialogue to move the story forward.
If you wish to be added to the members‘ list to receive a copy of the draft manuscript by email and join the online meetings, please send your name and email address to SIG co-leader Sean Furniss at Sean.Furniss@gmail.com.
Copies of the 2016-2024 manuscripts, a copy of the current guidelines, and other files that may be of interest can be found in the Informational Guidelines in the DropBox folder at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xb96n1vuzm2swd3/AAC2k2hrF956qHW_C3TCckn3a?dl=0
Sean
Sean Furniss
Co-Leader Family History Writing SIG
Sean.Furniss@gmail.com
Monthly Meeting -- Jim Bartlett will present Using Ancestry‘s Pro Tools
City of Fairfax Regional Library
Join with genealogists at all skill levels in the conference room in the Virginia Room for Open Genealogy Night.
Marlene Parker and Michael Hill invite you to join us for the African American Special Interest Group Zoom meeting.
Please email us aamericansig@fxgs.org if you plan to attend.
Feel free to invite others who have an interest in exploring African American genealogy.
Are you new to genealogy? Feel the need for a refresher on certain topics? Are you trying to figure out what to do with all the names and dates that you have gathered? Are you running into brick walls before you feel like you‘ve even gotten started? We can help! Led by Stephanie Glotfelty, a former co-editor of the FxGS newsletter, the Beginners’ SIG is a chance for novice genealogists to gather, learn, and share some of the challenges they are facing. Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 7:00-8:30 p.m. In even-numbered months, the meeting is on Zoom. Contact Stephanie at beginners@fxgs.org to get the Zoom link.
Fairfax County Pohick Regional Library, 6450 Sydenstricker Rd, Burke, VA.
Our meetings are open to all — you do not have to be a member of the Fairfax Genealogical Society to attend. The group meets once a month from September through May. There are no meetings over the summer months. We generally meet on the 3rd Monday of the month (except when a Federal Holiday occurs on Monday, then we meet the next day — Tuesday — of that month). Meetings are normally held at the Fairfax County Pohick Regional Library, 6450 Sydenstricker Rd, Burke, VA. from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Participants range from beginners to experienced experts.In February Marty Gurtz will present German Genealogical Journeys.
Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Rescue Hall
The Legal Lives of Our Ancestors will explore the laws, customs, and legal processes that impacted the ordinary person in American history and left behind invaluable records for genealogical research.
The VA SIG will meet on ZOOM from 1-3pm on 24 Feb. The topic will be Using the Library of Virginia website. If you have any questions or want to attend [FXGS members definitely welcome], please contact Amy Breedlove at albreedlove@comcast.net. Thank you.