Welcome to August and a great line up for our August 21st PCGS Monthly Meeting. Joey and Christine will be sharing presentations that promise to be both dynamic and educational. Our August presentations will be virtual via Zoom.
Our short class will feature Joey Caccarozzo with Casket Girls – Brides for French Colonists. Filles à la cassette, or Casket Girls, were women who were brought from France to the French colonies in the early 1700s to help populate French territories which were predominately settled by men. The name comes from the small chests, known as casquettes in which they carried their clothes. Learn why, to this day, these women are mentioned on every ghost tour in New Orleans. Discover who these women really were, their journey to the French colonies, and the challenges they faced once they arrived.
For our main program, Christine Cohen will present “Cousin Baiting and Cousin Stalking.” We will discuss the many ways to reach out to distant living cousins to help you expand your pedigree chart forward in time. You may find family treasures, photos, DNA test takers and information that will break down a brick wall. We will explore online trees, lineage societies, cemetery indexes, obituaries in newspapers, living people finder websites and social media.
Joey L. Caccarozzo is a federal trial attorney by day and a speaker and researcher on nights and weekends, with a focus in DNA, Italian, Louisiana, Slovak, and Ukrainian studies. She completed the Advanced Italian Genealogy course at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh in 2019 and her Italian and Eastern European genealogy certificates through the National Institute of Genealogy Studies in 2020. Joey is the speaker coordinator for the Pima County Genealogy Society and a member of its steering and programming committees.
Christine Cohen is a long time member of the Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS), serving in many capacities, including President. Christine is also a member of the El Rodondo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Society of the Daughter of Holland Dames and the Association of Professional Genealogists. Christine presents on a variety of genealogy topics including with breaking down brick walls, maximizing on-line resources and lineage and heredity societies,
PCGS August Monthly Meeting
Saturday, August 21, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
The Meeting Host is Jodi Lynn Strait. (Thank you)
Registration for the Zoom Meeting is HERE.
The link to register for the August 21 meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUudeyurz8sE9GUN9-DeUqD3WgWO21p_5Jj
The handouts for both lectures are available to PCGS members only on our website in the Secure Download area and the recording of the meeting will be available to members only under Videos: Monthly Meetings area. Not a member? Go to our website’s Join/Renew page and see how easy it is to join online!
DISCLAIMER: We are limited to 100 participants, but Zoom does not stop approving registrations when it reaches the 100 mark. A successful registration does not guarantee a seat in the meeting.
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