ICGS Meeting Summary: October 2000

October 19, 2000
Dawn's Home in Dodgeville

Dawn Phelan, Peggy Perry, Mark Perry, Helene Bethke and Cheryl Schmidt

Treasurer and Secretary reports approved by consensus

Heritage Days - it didn't happen, the library had cake on Saturday and closed at its usual time of 1pm. The Dodgeville library and ICGS plan to have a 'day' and newspaper release when our books/library are available in there.

Cemetery books - discussion of how long to hold books before giving to local libraries. Would this affect sales of books? Discussion tabled for the next meeting.

Motion by Cheryl, 2nd by Helene to accept The Duties of Officers.
*see list

Carol Knigge, of Folkfinders Genealogy Bookstore (Richmond, Illinois), did not accept our registered letter we mailed to her. We have not yet received our goods of $53.00 (since May).

Motion by Dawn, 2nd by Cheryl for Section 4 of By-Laws, regarding termination of membership, to go out for vote to general membership.

Talked of forming a 'Sunshine Committee' to send cards to our members.

Town of Moscow book - 1901 History - (160 pages) is a project we want to work on. We plan to have 3 people (built in proofreading system) index the places, businesses, photos, bios, and names.

East Side Cemetery-Dodgeville: We will publish this by sections. As there are about 12 physical divisions of the cemetery with about 300 stones each. We'll check our other cemetery books and see how many stones we indexed in those books.

Nominations for officers in 2001
President - Peggy
Vice-President - vacant
Secretary - Cheryl
Treasurer - Mark
Publicity/Newsletter - Kathy

Beginners Lessons to be held in Jan, Feb, March will be taught by:
1. Getting Started - all teachers
2. Organization - Fayth (assisted by Peggy)
3. Citing Sources - Mark (assisted by Peggy)
4. Vital Records - Peggy (assisted by Helene)
5. field trip
6. Census - Helene (assisted by Peggy)
7. Reaching Out (Write Query/Letters) - Cheryl (assisted by Peggy)
8. field trip
9. Tying it all Together - all

Lesson plans should be finished by Christmas time.

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