Pioneer Genealogical Society - Ponca City, Oklahoma

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

2010 PROGRAMS

January
"How to organize a scrapbook for family Continued"
Leslie Rardin

February
"Tiptoe thru the tombstone"
Carolyn Leonard author of "Who's your daddy" from OHS

March
“How to find locations of property owners on older county maps"
Cartographer and Depty to the Kay County Assessor
Susan Keen

April
1st person monologue of historical figure Isabel “Bell” Cobb
1st Indian woman doctor to practice medicine in Indian Territory beginning in 1882.
By Jacque Graham


***NOTE Since January and February meeting were canncelled due to bad weather, those programs will be given at a later date.

Please invite guests and I’ll see you there!

Programs Chairman – VP Jaque Graham

 

**This project is nearing the end...with the last of the cemeteries in the final stages it shouldn't be much longer for this project to end.

CURRENT PROJECT
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS
Project Chairman - Jay Stafford

The Pioneer Genealogical Society decided as a project to record the tombstone inscriptions of the cemeteries around Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma. The Kay County Cemetery book had been published in 1978 and needed an update.

The project consists of computerizing the sexton’s records, sorting by location and transcribing the tombstone inscriptions for each cemetery. The result is a sorted list by name, including the location, inscriptions, symbols and other names on tombstone.
The above-mentioned data, along with other sexton data, such as lot owner, sex, funeral home, place of death and other family data from obituaries, etc is compiled for future publication. The project at this time includes approximately 24 cemeteries.


The group meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays
at 9:30 am in the basement of the
Ponca City Public Library

Anyone wishing to help with this project is welcome to attend the meeting. Help consists of walking the cemeteries, transcribing tombstones and taking digital pictures, computer entry of information collected or proof reading the print copy. The project is finally nearing the end, but there is still plenty to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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