Open Records Topic At East Texas Genealogical Society meeting
The East Texas Genealogical Society is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. Saturday in Taylor Auditorium at Tyler Public Library, 201 S. College Ave., Tyler.
The featured speaker will be Pat Gordon, a professional writer, journalism teacher, and former newspaper reporter. Her topic will be "Genealogists Guide to Open Records," ETGS Publicity Director June Everheart said.
The program will be a primer on open records - both federal and state - and provide genealogists with the information they need to know about which records are open and which ones are closed and how to gain access to the records.
"Ms. Gordon believes that knowing your rights is often the first step in gaining access to public records needed in your research," Mrs. Everheart said. "As a journalist, Pat often used open records to find information for her stories, and when she began her family research about 15 years ago, she discovered that what she did as a journalist was similar to what she needed to do as a genealogist.
Ms. Gordon holds a master's degree in journalism from Texas Christian University and is a former newspaper reporter who now teaches journalism at a Fort Worth area university. She is a freelance writer and is involved in working on her family history as well as a county history.
"As a fifth-generation Texan, Pat likes to place her ancestors in the social setting in which they lived. Much of her research is done in newspapers and university archives, and she will be sharing how to find and obtain access to the records we need in our research," Mrs. Everheart said.
ETGS meetings are free and open to the public. For more information about ETGS go to the Web site at www.etgs.org or contact Mrs. Everheart at Everheart@suddenlink.net or 903-877-4501.
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