Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 13 Issue 7 February 29, 2016 March meeting •   Thursday, March 3rd •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 12th & Connection •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop •   January’s program •   Just the facts •   Brick walls January’s program I hope everyone had fun and learned something at last month’s program. Thank you for all the assistance you gave me. I’ve been trying out some of the ideas from the group and am hoping to share finished products in the coming months. I’m currently working on the Forest Service and family reunion material. There is a reason that we do family genealogy; it is interesting! Hopefully we want to share our findings with our extended families and the best place for sharing is at a family reunion. I talked with you about activities my family does prior to and during family reunions. Here is my current idea for this year’s reunion. It involves those small school pictures that everybody, close to my age, got in school. Just to remind you, they look like this. This is a picture of me in the 3rd grade, 1954. There are a lot of creative ways to use both your family history and genealogy for reunions. I’ve used old photos, reproduced as postcards, to notify relatives of the activities of the upcoming reunion we were hosting. It has crossed my mind that printing a six generation fan chart, cutting it to shape then stapling it to popsicle sticks to produce a fan, would be a hit for the freebie table. The only limits are your imagination. The idea is take four or five school pictures of my first cousins and make them into a bookmark. There are seven families with children and from two to five children in each family. I will select only those photos with the greatest artistic and nerd factors for each child and then arranging them in a bookmark template, with the name…Curtis-Lamb Family Reunion 2016, town and state and, depending on the price, print X number of them to put on the general distribution table for the attendees to take. Or…there were ten kids in my Mom’s family, five boys and five girls. Take the group picture of the sisters and the group picture of the brothers and have them made into bookmarks, with the appropriate label described above. Or do both. , OCR Text: Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 13 Issue 7 February 29, 2016 March meeting •   Thursday, March 3rd •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 12th & Connection •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop •   January’s program •   Just the facts •   Brick walls January’s program I hope everyone had fun and learned something at last month’s program. Thank you for all the assistance you gave me. I’ve been trying out some of the ideas from the group and am hoping to share finished products in the coming months. I’m currently working on the Forest Service and family reunion material. There is a reason that we do family genealogy; it is interesting! Hopefully we want to share our findings with our extended families and the best place for sharing is at a family reunion. I talked with you about activities my family does prior to and during family reunions. Here is my current idea for this year’s reunion. It involves those small school pictures that everybody, close to my age, got in school. Just to remind you, they look like this. This is a picture of me in the 3rd grade, 1954. There are a lot of creative ways to use both your family history and genealogy for reunions. I’ve used old photos, reproduced as postcards, to notify relatives of the activities of the upcoming reunion we were hosting. It has crossed my mind that printing a six generation fan chart, cutting it to shape then stapling it to popsicle sticks to produce a fan, would be a hit for the freebie table. The only limits are your imagination. The idea is take four or five school pictures of my first cousins and make them into a bookmark. There are seven families with children and from two to five children in each family. I will select only those photos with the greatest artistic and nerd factors for each child and then arranging them in a bookmark template, with the name…Curtis-Lamb Family Reunion 2016, town and state and, depending on the price, print X number of them to put on the general distribution table for the attendees to take. Or…there were ten kids in my Mom’s family, five boys and five girls. Take the group picture of the sisters and the group picture of the brothers and have them made into bookmarks, with the appropriate label described above. Or do both. , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2016,V13 I7 MCGS Mar 2016 Newsletter.pdf,V13 I7 MCGS Mar 2016 Newsletter.pdf Page 1, V13 I7 MCGS Mar 2016 Newsletter.pdf Page 1