WCAGS will be meeting on the following dates in 2013:

January 19, 2013 10 am —Walker Meeting Room 1st floor of Fayetteville Public Library

Beginning Genealogy:  If you have ever wondered about your family history and want to know how to get started join us in the Walker Room of the Fayetteville Public Library for an informal workshop.  Bring as much information as you know and we will help you get started finding out more!

March 16, 2013 10 am—Genealogy Department 2nd floor of Fayetteville Public Library

Genealogy Workshop:  Whether you are a beginning, intermediate or experienced genealogist come and join us on the 2nd Floor of the Fayetteville Public Library for an informal genealogy workshop.  Bring your laptop, your paper genealogy information, or your questions and we will help you get started in genealogy or help you to find answers to your genealogy questions.  Even if you don’t have any questions come and join us for a morning of working on our genealogy with other genealogists who will share your enthusiasm for that latest discovery!  The resources of the Fayetteville Public Library Genealogy Department are among the best in our area!  Come and enjoy a discovery or two among the resources!

May 18, 2013 10 am—Genealogy Department 2nd floor of Fayetteville Public Library

Genealogy Workshop:  We are continuing our genealogy workshop sessions for May.  Come and share a few more discoveries among the many resources of the Fayetteville Public Library!

September 21, 2013 10 am—Walker Meeting Room 1st floor of Fayetteville Public Library

For our September Genealogy Workshop, we are going to discuss genealogy software!  There are many genealogy software programs available and our members have used most of them.  Come and share your genealogy software experiences!  If you are new to genealogy, this is a great time to find out what others like and dislike about the genealogy programs they use and pick up a few tips on how to use the genealogy software to get the results you want from it.

November 16, 2013 10 am—Walker Meeting Room 1st floor of Fayetteville Public Library

The November Genealogy Workshop will focus on preserving our photos and documents.  Come and bring your preservation questions and members will share preservation tips.  Also, we will discuss scrapbooking with genealogy photos!  Bring a few copies of your genealogy photos and try out scrapbooking if you haven’t before.

Note: Please bring copies of your genealogy photos if you want to try out many of the scrapbooking tools!  Don’t use a one-of-kind genealogy photo for scrapbooking!  You might find that you accidentally cut out some of the important information from the photo later.  We will discuss how to share and preserve the original photos as well as the traditional scrapbooking methods!

Scrapbooking is a good way to get the younger people interested in genealogy.  Young kids will enjoy looking at your scrapbooks and finding out who all the people are even if they aren’t interested in long discussions about why you can’t find great-grandpa in the census!

Come and join us for the workshops and share your family history!