Networking Again

Last Saturday, I finally attended another meeting of the Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association (UCGA), at our local library. I attended a couple meetings in the first year we lived here, then we got busy with building our house and moving again and I let other things get in the way.

So, I was pleasantly surprised to see new officers at the helm and just a different attitude - or so it seemed to me. The program was presented by the White County archivist, Geraldine Pollard, who explained to the members how, when and why the White County archives were set up. It's nice to know that Nashville is encouraging the individual counties to set up archives to preserve their records.

The good news is that attending and joining the local society has helped me cross an item off my resolutions list.

Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes

The Best Laid Plans

One of my New Year's resolutions was to join a genealogical society. Well, there is one here in town. I've been a couple times and as far as I can tell they are not very active. I haven't seen anything other than non-members are welcome to attend that encourages new members. No seminars, no classes for newbies, nothing.

With that in mind, I forced myself to get ready to attend and even "gasp" join. Dear Husband and I decided to take a run by the library to see what the parking situation was. There are maybe 30 parking spaces at this library, not including the handicapped spots. I figured with the weather it might be best to see what the situation was.

I guess it is a good thing we drove by as the library was closed due to the one and a half inches of snow we got over the last couple of days. Yes, you read it right, one and a half inches of snow.

That resolution will hang on for another month.