Janine Baxter The Quail Creek Genealogy Club has had a wonderful start to the year, with two engaging meetings featuring outstanding local presenters. On March 4, members welcomed local researcher and author Sharon Kennedy, who shared her extensive knowledge of the Buffalo Soldiers and their remarkable contributions to American history. Her presentation left a lasting…
Janine Baxter On Jan. 7 the Quail Creek Genealogy Club (QCGC) met for the first time this year in the Kino Conference Center with a roundtable format. We were focused on organizing our research, methods to use to keep records, and being able to spend more time discovering ancestors and less time looking for lost…
Janine Baxter On Sept. 3 the Quail Creek Genealogy Club welcomed Mr. Ed Storey, a historian with the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board and author for genealogy magazines like Your Genealogy Today and Internet Genealogy. We learned about reading Sanborn Maps, as well as using city directories to find vital info (addresses, occupations, etc.) of our…
Janine Baxter The Quail Creek Genealogy Club (QCGC) carpooled to the Sahuarita Arizona FamilySearch Center in lieu of their March 5 meeting. Fifteen enthusiastic genealogists of all different skill levels enjoyed learning about what’s available at the library research area at the center. All researchers know it can get very costly at times to learn…
Dick Sussman, 2021 Founder of the Genealogy Club A time-tested “show biz” maxim knowingly conveys, “Give people what they want to experience, and they’ll turn out in droves.” After being founded in October of 2021, our club rapidly achieved large membership tallies of lineage-seeking, family tree-building residents. In the vein of the above-mentioned maxim, our…