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Upcoming Events
April MGS Executive Board Meeting
April 10, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
April MGS Membership Meeting
April 10, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
"Searching for your Civil War Ancestors" presented by Arthur "Art" E. Green. Green was born in Dallas County, Alabama. He is a direct descendant of Revolutionary War Patriot William Day of Edgefield District, South Carolina, who is buried in Dallas County. He is also the grandson of John C. Green who fought for Southern Independence in the War Between the States in the 38th Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Green is retired from Alabama State Docks Department and has compiled several published regimental history books on South Alabama Confederate Regiments. Art is a member of several historical, genealogical and heritage organizations including Mobile Genealogical Society. His books include:
Southerners at War - The 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers
Gracie's Pride - The 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers
Too Little Too Late - The 63rd Alabama Infantry CSA
Southern Boots and Saddles - The 15th Confederate Cavalry
Misc. Alabama Commands in Confederate Service
Published Magazine Articles
Mobile Confederates - The 21st Alabama Infantry (in progress)
May MGS Executive Board Meeting
May 8, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
May MGS Membership Meeting
May 8, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
In celebration of Mother's Day - members of MGS will join in the program for the May meeting. Members will be given the opportunity to give a "brief" presentaion of their favorite or most interesting female ancestor. Presentations must be brief in order to give everyone present an opportunity to participate.
June MGS Executive Board Meeting
June 12, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
June MGS Membership Meeting
June 12, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
In celebration of Father's Day - members of MGS will join in the program for the June meeting. Members will be given the opportunity to give a "brief" presentation of their favorite or most interesting male ancestor. Presentations must be brief in order to give everyone present an opportunity to participate.
July MGS Executive Board Meeting
July 10, 2010 9:00 a.m
MGS Library
July MGS Membership Meeting
July 10, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
Amy Beach from the Local History and Genealogy Department of the Mobile Public Library will be the featured speaker for the July meeting.
Amy's topic will be "Stories around the Gumbo Pot". Amy's original research was on cooking and recipes throughout Mobile's history, with her focus on the economy of the kitchens in the 1870s and 1880s (and the social changes within the city being reflected through the recipes). Some of her own family rsearch was through "food ways," or cooking traditions passed from generation to generation.
The topic "Stories around the Gumbo Pot" was chosen because that is the food tradition of her Bayou La Batre family heritiage.
There will be digital recordings, interview logs and photographs.
August MGS Executive Board Meeting
August 14, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
August MGS Membership Meeting
August 14, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
The August meeting will be a "joint" presentation from both the DAR and SAR organizations.
Sheila Shell, Regent of the d'Iberville Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, will make a presentation on why and how to join the DAR. Ms Shell will have worksheets available as handouts to those who are interested in joining. She also serves on the Richards DAR House Museum Board of Directors and is the current Alabama Society DAR Southern District Director.
Price Legg, former President of the General Galvez Chapter Sons of the American Revolution and former President of the Alabama State Society SAR will be the featured speaker representing the SAR organization. He also will discuss why and how to join the SAR and will have worksheets available for handouts for those interesting in joining the SAR.
For those who have always wanted to know how to join these organizations - this is a "must attend" program.
September MGS Executive Board Meeting
September 11, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
September MGS Membership Meeting
September 11, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
Jackie Matte, M.A., independent scholar, will be the guest speaker for the September meeting. Ms Matte grew up in Washington County, Alabama, near Old St. Stephens. She is an independent scholar, with master's degrees in history and in secondary education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in the Mountain Brook School System, and in 1991 she received a Teacher-Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for one year of independent study. The research she did that year on Southeastern Indians was published in Social Education, the professinal journal of the National Council for Social Studies. In 2001-2002, Matte served as the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence for Baldwin County High School. In 1997, she researched and prepared a survey of records relating to Old St. Stephens for the St. Stephens Historical Commission. Earlier in 1982, she wrote, The History of Washington County: The First County in Alabama, where Old St. Stephens, the territorial capital, was located. She has also written They Say the Wind is Red: the Alabama Choctaw Lost in their Own Land, and co-authored, with Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours.
Ms Matte is presenting this program through the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
October MGS Executive Board Meeting
October 9, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
October MGS Membership Meeting
October 9, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind the Holy Family Catholic Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
The guest speaker for the October meeting will be Carol Ellis, Archivist, University of South Alabama Archives, USA Springhill Avenue in Mobile.
Using a few of the court cases and vintage photographs held by USA Archives, Carol Ellis will give a brief powerpoint presentation that demonstrates some of the connections held by Mobilians of old.
Carol Ellis was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a career U.S. Army father. She moved with her family to Mobile in 1970. Since September 2005, Carol has served as Archivist for the University of South Alabama, where she earned both bachelors and masters degrees in history. She serves on the executive board of the Gulf South Historical Association. She has co-authored two books on the photographic history of Mobile, and has had several articles published in various regional history journals. She is currently attending the University of Alabama where she will receive her Masters of Library Science in December 2010.
November MGS Executive Board Meeting
November 13, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
November MGS Membership Meeting
November 13, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church, 1400 Joyce Road (off Overlook Road, East of University Boulevard)
Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting
The featured speaker for the meeting will be Hilmar von Campe, author, lecturer and international business man.
Hilmar von Campe emigrated out of Germany in the 1950s and spent most of his life since then in the various Latin America countries, including Mexico. He is a noted author and lecturer who was listed in the 1992 edition of the International Who's Who of Intellectuals in Cambridge.
Born in Germany in 1925, von Campe offers a seldom-heard Christian perspective on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. His testimony and the wealth of his inside stories are fascinating, including his escape from a POW prison camp in Yugoslavia, crossing seven borders back to his family.
Mr. von Campe will have available for purchase his book, Defeating The Totalitarian Lie. The first part of the book contains the story of his family before, during and after WWII. The von Campe family is documented since the year 1075.
December MGS Executive Board Meeting
December 11, 2010 9:00 a.m.
MGS Library
December MGS Membership Meeting
December 11, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Viale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church located at 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile (off Overlook Road, East of University Boulevard)
The new 2011 MGS Officers will be installed
Annual Christmas Meeting
Speaker to be announced
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