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Chautauqua County Genealogical Society will hold first meeting of the year

The 2018 season of the Chautauqua County Genealogical Society will begin Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Steele Room at Barker Library in Fredonia. Programs begin at 7 p.m. The genealogy resource room is open for research on Tuesdays from 4 to 7:45 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 4:45 p.m. The resource room has volumes of local family histories as well as published works with information on New England families, Mayflower descendants, Pennsylvania families and more. Society President Walt Sedlmayer is available to help with research at those times. Guests are welcome.

The mission statement of the Society is to promote, aid and encourage genealogical research. To identify, record and make available genealogical records relating to Chautauqua County and to publish records in various forms. To hold meetings and conduct seminars to further genealogical knowledge. Membership is $20/year ($25 for a family membership), and includes receipt of the Newsletter published four times per year. All meetings/resource room, are open to the public. Visit the Barker Museum which is open the same hours as the Genealogical Society.

Tuesday’s meeting will be a questions and answer session. Members/guests may present short presentations or genealogical concerns they have while doing research, or brick walls they have encountered.

The Tuesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. speaker will be Society Recording Secretary Margaret “Meg” Curtis PhD. To quote Curtis, she will cover “the topic of researching names for symbolism and hidden clues to cultural heritage and help answer the question, who are you and what are you doing here anyway?”

The Tuesday May 15 at 7 p.m. program will be presented by member Susan Washington Sipos. Sipos will cover the Robert J. Gross family prior to their arrival in Dunkirk and their connection to the John T. Washington Jr. family, Sipos’ grandfather, who worked as a chauffer and performed various other functions for the Gross family. The Gross Mansion on Central Avenue in Dunkirk later became the rectory for Cardinal Mindszenty High School.

Officers include: President Walt Sedlmayer, 679-7936: chestnut146@gmail; VP Gail Pugh Dash, 595-3593, 785-8420: gaildash@yahoo.com; Rec. Sec. “Meg” Curtis, Treasurer Debbie Kotar; Trustees: Wayne Leamer, Barbara Wise, Donna Keith. Newsletter Editor, Wayne Leamer: esp@cecomet.net. Membership Chairman Wayne Leamer; Publication Chairman Ruth Nichols, 965-2656; South County Research, Norm Carlson; North County Research, Walt Sedlmayer.

Contact officers or mail request to Chautauqua County Genealogical Society, PO Box 404, Fredonia, NY 14063. Join us on the web at Chaugen.org. The Society has room for speakers for the upcoming year, Anyone with a presentation for the group is asked to contact Gail Pugh Dash, VP and program chairman.

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