Next IRGS Meeting
OUR NEXT IN PERSON MEETING:
Tuesday September 10, 2024
IRC Main Library's Multimedia Room
10:30-11:00 am Social
11am-12:30 Business/Program
“Getting Ready to Write"
Speaker: Lynn Palermo
Join the monthly Indian River Genealogy Society program, Getting Ready to Write with Lynn Palermo on Tuesday, September 10 from 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. The program is free and open to the public and will be held at the Indian River County Main Library, Media Room.
We'll take an overview look at the family history writing genre, set up some processes and best practices for getting ready to write and look at how to find the stories in your research. What you'll learn:
- Understanding Your Writing Options
- Getting to Know Creative Nonfiction
- Choosing an Ancestor to Write About
- Managing, the Writing, Research and Source Citations
- What is a Family History Story?
- Finding the Story in Your Research
- Creating a Writing Habit
The social portion starts at 10:30 AM followed by the presentation at 11:00 AM, followed by Q & A at 12 NOON.
Lynn Palermo is a writing & accountability coach helping family historians turn their family history research into shareable and entertaining stories. Also known as the Armchair Genealogist, for the past 15 years, Lynn has coached thousands of students through her signature writing programs in the Family History Writing Studio. She is a published author with a creative writing certificate from the University of Toronto. She has written a multi-generational heirloom book, a family history children's book and a novella-length family history narrative along with numerous short stories and ancestor profiles. She's produced many how-to workbooks for the family historian and offers virtual and in-person writing retreats, workshops and webinars. Lynn is based in Ontario, Canada.
The program is free and open to the public.
We encourage you to join us in person, but if you cannot, you can REGISTER in advance to joint us via Zoom at
Please address questions to info@irgs.org.
Remembering Pam Cooper
IRGS is saddened to learn of the passing of our former president Pam Cooper. She made a tremendous impact on our organization as well as the Vero Beach community.
This recent article from TCPalm provides more details about her contributions to the genealogy community in Vero Beach and in the state of Florida.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Pam's family.
IRGS Newsletter Update
As most of you may know, the decision has been made to cease the monthly newsletter with the official motion being completed on Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 at the Executive Board Meeting. I know that this was met with some dismay at our monthly member meeting.
With that said, the idea was proposed that we could switch to a Quarterly; and, this does have precedent in the society. Colleen Butler will be leading this endeavor.
The idea will be to focus primarily on genealogical information and stories, not for meeting reminders or upcoming events. I would call upon any of those in the membership who may have been concerned or upset by the ending of our monthly newsletter to make your interest known in helping with the Quarterly. Thank you.
Brian McQuade
President
Youth Genealogists
GIG NEWS
September GIG Calendar
Many of our GIGs will resume meeting this month, however the Scandinavian GIG and Scottish GIG will not meet this month but resume in October.
Scandinavian GIG The next scheduled meeting is October 7th.
Scottish GIG The next scheduled meeting is October 21st.
Irish GIG will meet Tuesday September 3rd, 2:00 pm, in the Genealogy Department of IRC Main Library
WriteLife Group will meet Thursday September 12th and 26th, 1:30 pm virtually
DNA GIG will meet Thursday September 19th, 2:00 pm virtually
Contact the GIG leaders to join or email info@irgs.org to be added to a GIG distribution (please specify which GIG) The GIGs welcome new members! We ask all GIG members maintain an active IRGS membership.
Beginner's Introduction to DNA
We invite anyone interested in learning more about the basics of DNA testing and analysis to review the following video prepared by our DNA Genealogy Interest Group Leader, Janet Hunter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kuFIflOIiw
We encourage you to join our DNA GIG by becoming a member of our society to view additional educational videos of our past meetings.
Check out our Facebook page to see the latest announcements and suggestions. We post many announcements that come to our society that may not be reported on our website.
