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December 2008 -- Christmas Break .
November 16 . Carolyn Bauer on "Sanford Insurance Maps" including every building of early Marshalltown over many years intended to aid fire and planning departments and of the community at large. "See" the town develop. (more)
October 19 . 1. "Ellis Island and Annie Moore -- Genealogy, History, and Mythology" will be the presentation by Carolyn Bauer based on the research of Megan Smolenyak. 2. Members share Genealogical "finds" -- e.g. libraries, websites, places and sources of information that CIGS members have uncovered during their own research efforts.
3. Bylaws, Election, Gallentine Collection .
October 2-4 , IGS Annual Fall Conference , Des Moines, "Expanding Your Research Horizons."
September 21 . Pauline Smith and Kathy Smith on "Organizing Your Genealogical Materials.
June-July-Aug . Summer break.
May 18 . Julie Lang on Taylor schoolhouse and the work done there recently.
April 20 . CIGS April Meeting at IGS library in Des Moines.
March 16 . Andrew Dekock will speak on "Emigration from Holland"
February 17 . Canceled from weather.
January 26 . Genealogy Class and Workshop, Saturday, 10am to 3pm. Details below.
January 20 . Pat Gourley will speak on Courtship : The Lincoln's in Springfield.
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Don Paustian wll speak about WW2 research on his father's ship -- the USS Honolulu (CL-48). Damaged at Pearl Harbor, she went on to earn 8 battle stars with actions from
Australia, Alaska, Guadalcanal, Solomons, Guam, Palau and Leyte.
Dr. Anderson will share the story of her ancestors, newly emancipated slaves from a plantation in New Madrid, MO, who traveled by railroad to resettle in Tama, IA. As Dr. Anderson explained, "In 1862 there were two families, the Wallers and the Greens who lived in Tama. Later, a Green would marry a Waller, and the two families would be merged. They had friends from a number of towns in the region : Monroe, Oskaloosa, Marshalltown. One of the Greens would marry a Brown, and a Brown would marry a Anderson. Then Roxanna Anderson would be born." A Colonel from the Army was responsible for bringing them to Tama. The historical information has been gleaned from obituaries which have told most of the story. The remaining information is from a novel about John Waller, an ambassador to the Malagasy Republic appointed by President Benjamin Harrison. The author of that text also ran into difficulty unearthing various stories about their liberation which occurred prior to the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Dr. Anderson's family has deep roots in Marshalltown -- Isaac Brown, her great-grandfather is buried in Marshalltown and Roxanna is still searching to find where his wife is buried. Her grandfather, Carl T. Brown, migrated to Chicago and then to Detroit where he lived, married, and died. Her mother was born in Chicago, but because of a business failure the family moved back to Marshalltown where her mother was raised.