Chapter member Charlie Black will present "Do's and Don'ts in Genealogy" which will be a condensed version of the presentation he gave at the FamilySearch Center's annual workshop last year.  Charlie will also provide an overview of registering for the Chapter's group on "Relative Finder" (an on-line tool created the BYU Family History Technical Lab […]

Chapter member Mary Lucas will give a presentation on her Barnwell County family home, with several artifacts and written history from the home built before the Civil War. Mary was born and raised in North Charleston. She is a licensed clinical psychiatric social worker in South Carolina and was named DHEC social worker of the […]

Chapter member Susan Dobbs' presentation "Using Newspapers in Genealogy Research" will cover the kinds of information you can find in newspapers, several websites where you can find newspaper links as well as Genealogy Bank and Newspapers.com. Susan has been researching her family history for over fourteen years and has uncovered some interesting stories on her […]

Chapter member Lynn Baker will give a presentation on Family Tree Maker and it's companion plugin Family Tree Creator. Lynn will cover some of the basics of Family Tree Maker and synchronizing with Ancestry.com; how to use some of the built in features for finding mistakes or issues with your data; how to create reports […]

Our April meeting will be a 50th Anniversary Celebration for the Charleston Chapter (this will be for Chapter members only). Due to logistical issue, we will not have a Zoom link available for this meeting.

Elizabeth (Libby) Steadman, our speaker for the May meeting, will discuss “Migration of the Scots-Irish Immigrants in 1770’s in South Carolina”. Libby is a retired Colonel with the Army Reserves and a veteran of Desert Storm and the Afghanistan War. She is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of American Colonists, National […]

Our speaker for the September meeting, Carter Jones will present “Legacies That Live On -- Stories of South Carolina’s Fire Service.” Carter is the Historian & Heritage Coordinator for the South Carolina State Firefighters’ Association and his presentation is a chance to step back in time to learn some history of our State’s fire service, […]

Chapter member Charlie Black will explain how to use the experimental Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool Full-Text Search offered on FamilySearch. Full-Text Search will be a paradigm shift in researching techniques once it’s fully deployed, as it lets users search for words or phrases in AI generated transcripts of hand-written documents. Charlie is a retired engineer […]

Chapter member Pat Kruger's program "Discovering YOUR 'Greatest Generation'" will focus on research for WWII era veterans and ways to find more about their experiences and to access information surrounding their personal stories. Even with some military archival record challenges, you can still find location and military descriptions, sort through conflicting personal stories and even […]

December is our annual “Show and Tell” holidays get-together. We invite chapter members to talk about genealogy-related "news" from the year. Come join us and learn a bit more about what's been happening with our members. If you would like to present at this meeting, please contact Melanie Zimmerman (melanieszimmerman "at" gmail.com).