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, KKCS@aol.com

Calendar of Events June 13 and June 20 at 9 to 5 – Genealogy Book Sale MEMBERS ONLY - An estimated 600+ genealogy books will be available for sale. These are “second copies”, that is, extra copies of books IGS already owns. They cover a wide range of genealogy research topics. Many books are in near new condition. They are priced less than on the internet. The German Interest Group will also have a table of German research books for sale. All proceeds benefit the Iowa Genealogical Society.

A listing of items for sale by subject mater is on our website at www.iowagenealogy.org

Please enter the main door of the library. Everyone needs to check in at the desk to verify your membership is up-to-date. You will receive a hand stamp to go into the west wing.

July 25 – Summer Slumber Party & Scrapbooking 5 p.m. Saturday July 25 until 6 a.m. Sunday July 26. Cost is $20 per person. Bring snacks to share. There will also be demonstrations on scrapbooking and time to do scrapbooking. Pizza and pop provided for a late supper. A light breakfast will be served. Please pre-register at IGS or phone 515-276-0287.

October 4, noon to 3:00 p.m. – Historical Cemetery Walk

IGS will cooperate with Woodland Cemetery to conduct a Historic Cemetery Walk on Sunday, October 4th. We are looking for volunteers to serve as actors and guidePlease contact Co-chairs, LaWanda Nepstad, (515) 252-0283, snepstad@prodigy.net or Kaye Sanchez, (515) 276-5396

October 30th & 31st ‐ IGS Heritage Quilt Show IGS is holding a heritage quilt show this fall to coincide with the American Quilters Society National Quilt Show on October 30 and 31st.

Our show will feature the quilt or bed covering done by one of our ancestors and we request that a family history be done to tell about the person who made the quilt.

The application is located on the IGS web site at www.iowagenealogy.org

IGS E-mail: igs@iowagenealogy.org IGS Website: www.iowagenealogy.org

What's Inside President Letter ................2

Hawkeye Heritage Transition .........................2

Volunteers Needed ...........2

Scanning Project Cemetery Walk Annual Conference

Annual Conference ..........3

Registration ...................4

Lodging .........................4

Nominations for Region Representatives ................5

Let’s Celebrate .................5

New Publications .............5

Cataloging Corner ............5

IGS Staff Librarian

Billie Murano

Administrative Assistant Debra Chase

Assistant Librarians Sondra Carnahan

Debra Chase Susan Claman

IGS Executive Board

• President, Barbara Hug • 1st Vice President, Ricki

King • 2nd Vice President, Kathy

Gourley • Secretary, Diane Densmore • Treasurer, LaWanda

Nepstad

Iowa Genealogical Society Newsletter

From The President Barbara Lane Hug Newton, Iowa May 19, 2009

Greetings from Central Iowa:

As just a reminder, the purpose the newsletter is to communicate about the business of the society. Genealogical information is reserved for the Hawkeye Heritage.

We live in a fast-changing world and IGS must change to keep up. The Board of Directors and your officers are working hard to try and keep our traditional values while at the same time dealing with today’s issues.

I’ve explained some of these changes under separate headings. Please contact any board member if you have questions.

Your President,

Barbara Lane Hug bhug@prairieinet.net

Hawkeye Heritage Transition Twenty and thirty years ago genealogists subscribed to as many genealogy magazines as possible. Do you remember getting a magazine in the mail, stopping all other work, sitting down and going through the surname indexes to see if you could find your ancestors? And remember the correspondence with the SASE (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope); we hoped and prayed the person would respond.

Nearly all of these magazines have gone by the wayside, a fond remembrance of former times.

The Hawkeye Heritage has been the research publication for IGS for a long time. Its purpose is to give members information to assist them in their genealogical research, which includes articles, queries and data bases.

The cost of printing and mailing is prohibitive for the Society.

The Board of Directors has struggled with how to keep the Hawkeye Heritage a member benefit without raising dues; personal donations have paid for the last two issues.

In the last newsletter members were asked to let us know how they want to receive the Hawkeye Heritage – mail, on the web, pick up or not at all. Unfortunately only a few people responded to the request.

Last month the Board of Directors had to make a difficult decision about the continuation of the Hawkeye Heritage. They decided the publication is still a viable way to communicate information.

The Board of Directors decided to make the Hawkeye Heritage available only electronically on the IGS website with the next issue being available June 1st.

The Board understands this is not a popular decision, but they felt there was no other choice. They are aware that a public Internet connection is available in nearly every community through the library or school and hope that members are able to print the publication directly from our web site or save to a disk for home use.

Volunteers Needed

Scanning Project To prepare for our web site, the Board wants to begin transcribing and scanning some of our non-copyrighted resources. The first item discussed was all of the past issues of the Hawkeye Heritage.

Here’s how you can help.

• Volunteer to coordinate the process. • Scanning past issues at home and sending us the file. • Coming to IGS and scanning the publication.

Contact Barbara Hug, bhug@prairieinet.net if you want to volunteer.

Historic Cemetery Walk IGS will cooperate with Woodland Cemetery to conduct a Historic Cemetery Walk on Sunday, October 4th. We are looking for volunteers to serve as actors and guides. Please contact Co-chairs, LaWanda Nepstad, (515) 252-0283, snepstad@prodigy.net or Kaye Sanchez, (515) 276-5396, KKCS@aol.com. This will be a very fun event.

Annual Conference Annual conference this year will be held October 9 and 10th in West Des Moines, Iowa. Volunteers are needed to assist with the Annual Conference as follows:

• Silent Auction coordinator • Silent Auction items • Registration table • Set up and Clean up Contact Kathy Gourley at <Kathy.Gourley@iowa.gov> or Ricki King at <igs@inlivingmemory.org> or IGS at 515-276-0287 to volunteer.

IGS Annual Conference – October 9 & 10, 2009 West Des Moines Christian Church

4501 George Mills Civic Pkwy West Des Moines, Iowa

Mining For Your Ancestors

Featured Speaker: Tim Pinnick Tim Pinnick is a family historian, researcher and writer with more than 20 years overall research experience including all the major U.S. repositories. He has extensive lecture experience on a variety of topics and has been a presenter at over a dozen national and regional genealogy conferences coast to coast. His awards include a 2005-2006 Formby Research Fellowship and a 2005 Richard S. Brownlee Fund grant to conduct research on African American coal miners in Texas and Missouri.

Topics: • The WWI Draft Card: Don't Do Research Without It! • Coal Dust In Your Veins: Tips, Strategies, and Resources to Bring Your Coal Mining Ancestors to the Surface • Locating and Using Oral History Collections • Developing the Genealogy of a Community: A Case Study • Strikebreakers! The Recruitment and Employment of African Americans in the Coal Mining Industry 1870-1900

Other Speakers and their topics:

• Mary Burtzloff, Kansas City, MO, “National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Website” and “NARA Archival Research Catalog (ARC)” (Friday)

• Larry Hurto, Historian, Newton, Iowa, “Lincoln Letters” (Saturday) • Jasper Grays Civil War Singers, Jasper Co. Iowa, Civil War Artifacts and Music (Saturday)

Special Opportunity on Friday evening:

• Since we have received more than 1,000 new volumes in our IGS collection in the past year, we wanted conference attendees to have the opportunity to use these valuable resources.

• Check out our website www.iowagenealogy.org/research_resources/index.htm for listings in our research collection and other resources.

• Therefore the IGS Library will be open Friday evening from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. only for conference attendees to do research.

• A light meal will be served at the library. • Please RSVP if you will be doing research Friday night.

P.S. There is nothing planned for Thursday evening, we’ll see you at the conference first thing Friday morning.

Annual Conference Registration October 9 & 10, 2009

West Des Moines Christian Church 4501 George Mills Civic Pkwy

West Des Moines, Iowa

Friday, October 9 8:00 – Registration 8:30 – Welcome 8:45 – 4:00: Speakers, vendors, socialize 5:00 – 7:30: Research at IGS Library (please sign up)

Saturday, October 10 8:00 – Arrivals 8:30 – Welcome 8:45 – 3:00: Speakers, vendors, socialize

Members* By September 1, 2009 $75 ____ After September 1st $85 ____ One day paid before September 1st $45 ____ One day paid after September 1st $55 ____

Non-Members* By September 1, 2009 $110 ____ After September 1st $120 ____ One day paid by September 1st $ 65 ____ One day paid after September 1st $ 75 ____

Registration Fee enclosed: Will you be at the IGS Library Friday evening? Yes ____No ____

Name: IGS Member: Yes ____ No ____ Mailing address and phone number:

E-mail address:

*Cost includes syllabus, two lunches, midmorning snack, and light meal on Friday evening at the IGS library. * Full refund if canceled before September 25, 2009.

Please tell of any special needs you might have:

Mail to: IGS Annual Conference, 628 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50309-1924

Lodging Information for Annual Conference

Heartland Inn West Des Moines 11414 Forest Avenue Clive, IA 50325 515-226-0414 Or 800-334-3277 (code 16) Desmoines-west@heartlandinns.com

Rooms 69.99 + tax Full Breakfast, all rooms are non-smoking Call by Sept 24, and ask for the Iowa Genealogical Society rate

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Nominations New Publications for Sale The following regions need to have a representative elected this year. Please contact the Nominating Committee chair, Margaret Foster, at fosterm@mchsi.com if you have a suggestion.

2848 Abstracted Names The LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel 1934. Cost $6.10

2849 Gowrie News Index 1909 – 1919. Cost $15.40 2850 Caldwell Funeral Home 1970, Des Moines, IA.

Cost $4.80 Region 1: Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa

Region 3: Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Muscatine, Scott

2851 St Mary's Catholic Cemetery Lake City, Calhoun Co. Cost $5.80

Region 5: Allamakee, Bremer, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek Cataloging Corner

Ninety-seven (97) books were added to our shelves in the month of April.

Region 7: Butler, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright

Region 9: Appanoose, Davis, Lucas, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne Our new Iowa books, by county,

include: Region 11: Adair, Boone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Madison

Boone: Napier High School Days Buena Vista: 1971 Atlas, Buena Vista History 1858-1983 Region 13: Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola,

Sioux Cherokee: Larabee Centennial 1887-1987 Decatur: Woodland Township (Some of Its History & People) Region 15: Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Harrison,

Monona, Shelby Greene: Churdan Centennial 1882-1982 Harrison: Dunlap Centennial 1867-1967

Let’s Celebrate! Iowa: The History of Iowa County Polk: Caldwell Funeral Home records for 1967 and 1971 It seems like we are always asking

for donations! That’s because about half of our yearly operating budget is made up of donations and fund raising events.

Webster: History of Early Ft. Dodge & Webster County

Some of the states and their counties included in our newest books: Delaware: New Castle Illinois: Perry Yes, we have finally paid off all of our leases. Minnesota: Micollet Ohio: Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas, In 2003 we were paying $6,600 per month on the

mortgage and $2,594 on leases. Pennsylvania: Franklin, Lawrence Virginia: Essex, Greenbrier, Northampton, Northumberland + more Today we are spending $4,589 on the mortgage and $0

on leases. That’s a whopping savings of $4,605 a month or $55,260 a year! Some family history surnames: Boswell, Briscoe,

Corwin, Dodson, Griese, Leverich, Liebenstein Reynolds, Travis, Tripp Congratulations.

However , . . . Don’t forget the upcoming book sale on June 13 and June 20 for Iowa Genealogical Society members only! It’s going to be something big! Look for more information elsewhere in this newsletter.

We still need donations. Summer is the leanest time of the year for income and yet our bills still need to be paid. So if you can spare a few

dollars, it would really help us meet our summer expenses.

Remember to check the “Recent Library Book Acquisitions” binder on top of the card catalog files when you’re at IGS. A listing of our new books is printed at the beginning of each month. In fact, this month (June) we are in real need of

donations to keep IGS operating as strong as we have in the past.

IGS will appreciate any donations you can make. Thanks.

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Iowa Genealogical Society

628 East Grand Avenue Des Moines IA 50309-1924

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Mailing Address

Important Communications Inside

Hawkeye Heritage will be electronic only on the IGS web site. The June issue includes:

• a great article by Carl Nollen about how he used his grandfather’s autograph book to trace rural school teachers • an Index of Spanish American War TAP forms C& D • Pioneer Certificates • Library acquisitions for 1st half of 2008

Annual Conference Registration Form. The conference is October 9 & 10 in West Des Moines. There are great speakers and great topics. You won’t want to miss it. Volunteers needed – for a scanning project and the annual conference.

Nominations needed – for Regional Representatives in Regions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15.

New Publications

New Acquisitions

Don’t forget the member-only Book Sale June 13 and 21

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