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May Meeting
 FGS members and guests welcome our speaker Donna Moughty. Donna will be presenting Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are, Hide and Seek on the Internet at the regular meeting on 5 May at the Germany Library Auditorium, 900 North Ashley Drive, Tampa, Florida.
Donna Moughty, a Professional Genealogist and former Regional Manager for Apple Computer, has been conducting family research for over 20 years. She teaches and lectures on a variety of subjects including Internet, Irish research and computer topics locally and at national conferences and institutes. In addition, she provides consultations, research assistance, and training. Donna attended the National Institute for Research at the National Archives, and the Third and Fourth Irish Congress in Ireland, the Salt Lake Institute – Irish Research and the Institute for and Historical Research at Samford University where she was an instructor for the Irish course in 2011. She is a member of Association of Professional Genealogists and served as chair of the Professional Management Conference from 2005 - 2008, and the Speakers Guild. She writes a blog that can be found at www.moughty.com.
Speaking of the Census...
Educational Opportunities
Join your fellow members and guests from 10:15 to 11:00 a.m., when our regular meeting begins, at one of two discussion groups. Both groups are casual discussions, which are intended to enhance your meeting experience.
 BEGINNING GENEALOGY & BREAKING DOWN BRICK WALLS
If you are a beginner or want to share information with new researchers, a group will meet to discuss "how-to" ideas, document types, and research techniques to help get you started on the right path. If you've encountered a brick wall in your research, discuss it with others and brainstorm how to get past it.
COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP
April: Please join Cathy Vance, Pam Treme, and Pattie Schultz in Computer Lab 3 West for a discussion on computer maintenance. The presentation will be short so that we can have an open question and answer session.
We think you'll really enjoy these groups. They'll allow you to get to know other people better and have a an even better time at our meetings!
Irish Research Trip
Irish genealogical research specialist Donna Moughty has advised us that she will be leading an Irish research trip to Dublin, Ireland, on October 7-12, 2012. A PDF is available in the Public Downloads area of our website that describes the trip and provides details about pricing, hotel, and research venues. Click on Research Opportunities to access the file.
Please note that FGS-Tampa neither endorses nor recommends this trip. The PDF file is being posted at the request of Ms. Moughty.
Preserve Your Digital Materials
What Do You Know about TRAILS?
The Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library provides access to a great local resource for genealogists at its website at http://www.thplc.org. It's called TRAILS and it provides access to indexed newspaper and magazine articles relating to the history of the Tampa Bay area and the state of Florida from selected local publications.
TRAILS is an acronym for Tampa History Research Automated Index to Library Services. TRAILS is a project that was done by Norma and Arthur Schmidt of Riverview, Florida. The data in Trails includes obituary information from 1855 through 1983. (The data from 1855 through 1894 was researched by Julius Gordon.) Death notices, obituaries, and funeral notices from the Tampa Tribune and its predecessor newspapers in Tampa were indexed and entered into TRAILS. An index listing typically includes the name of the person and a reference to the year, month, and day on which one of these death-related notices appear in the Tampa Tribune. Using this information, you can use the microfilm of the newspapers (available at the main John F. Germany Library or at the University of South Florida Library) to locate the obituary. You can print the obituary or save the image to a flash drive.
The library has acquired microfilm within the last year or so of old issues of La Gaceta, the nation's only tri-lingual newspaper and one of the oldest minority-owned and targeted newspapers in America, and of historical African-American newspapers. All of were published in Tampa. There have been discussions concerning the addition to TRAILS of the obituary index listings for these publications.
You can access TRAILS at the library's website at http://www.thplc.org. When you get to this website, click on the link labeled Learning & Research at the top of the page. On the next page, click on the link labeled Genealogy & History in the left-hand column. On the next screen, scroll down to TRAILS and click that link. You'll them be able to enter a name in the Quick Search box. You can also enter a year to narrow the search. For example, if you enter Milton 1940, you'll be presented with a list of results. In this case, click on Milton, Gennie; 1940. You'll be presented with another page that provides more information about the Tampa Tribune listing, including the Section and page. In this case, there is something in the paper under F.N. (Funeral Notices) on page 2.
TRAILS is easy to use and can provide great information in the way of death notices, obituaries, and funeral notices.
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