22 Jan 2020 DIRT Meeting summary

Our meeting today was well attended and we had 3 new members join us.  Our focus items for this meeting were:

1) Review and feedback on the Genealogy Fair 2020 "Working Together - New Discoveries"
2) Summary of 2019 Genealogy activities
3) Bob's Corner focused on the card catalog in FamilySearch.org: Click here
4) List of Webinars since last meeting
5) Deadends : Know Alternate Approaches discussion, see two handouts
    Click here for Genealogy Checklist
    Click here for Alternate Sources
6) Each of the 5 tables used a different website to explore finding more information about Obituaries
7) Each of the 5 tables selected 2 people with death dates and used one or more sources to find obituaries on those individuals - hooray - most tables found new information from obituaries of their ancestors
8) Upcoming events for Feb/Mar were shared