East Texas Genealogical Society
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Tyler Public Library—Taylor Auditorium
Program: “Tax Records”, or “Why Did Scarlett Make A Dress of Her Mother’s Drapes?”
Speaker: Kelvin L. Meyers
For most genealogists a tax list is merely a substitute for a missing census, but there are many other uses for a tax list. You can determine when an ancestor comes of age, estimate the time of death of an ancestor, or maybe identify a nameless wite. Learn what your ancestor’s social standing was in the community. Maybe you can determine the short stay of a family in a county between decennial censuses, as well as give positive clues to the location of land owned in that county. Also learn where to find these tax lists and how to access them.
Kelvin L. Meyers is a contract forensic genealogist, researcher, author and lecturer. From 1986 to 1996 he was employed in the Genealogy Department, History and Social Science Division, Dallas Public Library; Lloyd Bockstruck, supervisor. From 1996 to present, he has served as a Contract Forensic Genealogist with attorneys, banks, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services, and heir searching companies, locating lost /missing heirs to estates and oil and gas leases.
Mr. Meyers is a past president of the Dallas Genealogical Society and and a member og the Texas State Genealogical Society. Currently, he is president of Lone Star Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
He graduated in 1984 from Texas Tech with a B.A. in History, and in 1989 and 1990, attended Samford IGHR where he completed two courses” Course IV in “Advanced Methodology” and Course V in “Advanced Library Research.” He has presented a variety of programs at over twenty genealogical societies, nationwide. Be sure to join us.
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Computer Interest Group
Rick Featherston, Director
There will be no CIG Meeting in July.
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