Pioneer Genealogical Society - Ponca City, Oklahoma

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

2008 PROGRAMS

JANUARY

Kathy Zehr
Trip to the Archive Room
Cherokee Strip Pioneer Files

FEBRUARY

Diane McDowell - Keith Barley
Introduction to the Pioneer Genealogical Societies Website

MARCH

Diane McDowell
Properly Filling Out Family Group Shets - Practice Session
Bring 1 or 2 ancestors to work on. 1 packet of 25 family group sheets with instructions


APRIL

Jacque Graham
Old Fashioned 1800's Handwriting Class. Practice and understanding it.

MAY

“The Orphans Train” DVD 60 minutes in length

JUNE

Donna Humble
Regent for [DAR] Intro to Daughters of the American Revolution

JULY/AUGUST - SUMMER BREAK - NO MEETINGS

SEPTEMBER

Diane McDowell
Back to Basics - Genealogical problem solving - 4 Steps

OCTOBER

Diane McDowell
International Genealogical Index [IGI] Finding a source.

NOVEMBER

Neal North
First Families of Twin Territories-Pioneer applications offered by Neal and Diane.

DECEMBER
Annual Christmas Party

Please bring snack/fingerfoods to share

Installlation of our officers for the coming year!

Please invite guests and I’ll see you there!

Programs Chairman – VP Diane L McDowell

 

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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