Rockwall County Genealogical Society
2008 Meetings, Projects, and Events

Scheduled Meetings
Held the second Thursday of the month at 7:00pm unless otherwise noted.

May 8, 2008

This meeting will allow members to share ideas and research tips, as well as success stories. Bring items for a little show & tell, or just sit back and listen to what others have to share.
Also, does your PC seem awfully slow? Are you getting annoying pop ups, or automatically get sent to strange web pages? Well this brief presentation will show you some of the available software to protect your PC while doing your research, covering Anti Virus/Spyware/Adware software, hardware & software firewalls, and registry cleaners, many of which are free.

June 12, 2008

What Do Those Old Words Mean?  If your ancestor had a "good sister," were his other sisters bad? How could a woman have a father-in-law if she never married? Some terms describing kinship, legal status and occupations don't mean now what they meant then.

Pending Lloyd Bockstruck.

Projects

Cemetery Headstone Transcription and Photography

Chisholm almost completed, only 22 more cemeteries to go. Once completed we will publish a book with the results.

Deed Books Transcription

A few of the over 30 deed abstract books have been completed.

Pioneer's of Rockwall Book

This will be a book with the names and stories of individuals obtained from the Pioneer Certificates project. These are Pioneers that created Rockwall County from 1900 and prior. RCGS member Mary Keene is heading this up and needs any assistance she can get, if you can help please email her at mhkeene @sbcglobal.net <-(remove space when emailing)

Historic Texas Cemetery Program

Need volunteers to submit cemeteries for this program.
Go to:  http://www.thc.state.tx.us/cemeteries/cemhtc.html

Nathan Butler Cemetery Restoration

Need headstones aligned, needs a fence. (NEED UPDATED STATUS)  A few years ago about a dozen headstones turned up missing, the rumor was they had been taken to be restored, if anybody knows were the missing headstones are please email jeff @txlowe.net <-(remove space when emailing)

Events

To be announced

Gather up your items you can live without to help support one of the only yearly fund raising events we have. Usually held on the corner of the Rockwall square in the parking lot next to the Lofland office.