For twenty-four years our organization has never had a fund raiser - so now we would like to ask your help in raising the funds to buy a microfilm reader/printer and the available microfilm reels of newspapers for Cumberland County. We are a registered charitable organization and will issue tax receipts for your donation. Please HELP US REACH OUR GOAL. Please contact our office if you need further details. Donations may be made by cheque, e-transfer to "archives@ccgsns.com" or through Paypal by hitting the Donate Button, above - please add a note to say it is for the microfilm reader/printer. Or drop by the office Thursday - Saturday from 10 AM - 4 PM
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Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 24 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your parents, grandparents and other ancestors, lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
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Cumberland Roots Vol. 1 Issue 2
Cumberland Roots Volume 1, Issue 2 – June 19, 2001
ISSN #1496-6972 Price $2.00
[From the President] – Having just passed our first anniversary, I think back to the birth of our Society, and the successful start we were given through the well-attended seminar presented by Dr. Allan Marble just last May. It hardly seems a year in some respects, and now, with our membership nearing sixty, I feel the effort to get a genealogy interest group started here has been well rewarded. We’ve enjoyed some excellent guest speakers and set ourselves up to meet Society-status requirements. We now have a Newsletter and a Website, and long-range plans for some ideas that have come forward from our members.
The monthly demand to present interesting and informative programs at our meetings has been difficult. The solution, of course, is a Program Committee to develop programs and communication strategies for the coming year.
We have been meeting at the Cumberland County Museum, and I want to express my thanks on behalf of the Society, for their generosity and support. I look forward to a continued good working relationship with them.
My main objective has always been to provide a forum for those interested in genealogy to get together and share their interests. I sincerely hope that you have found the opportunity to share information to your satisfüction. I invite your comments and suggestions, and welcome your input. In fact, our continued success depends on it.
I look forward to our second year as a Society with great anticipation and enthusiasm. I hope you do as well.
I wish each of you an enjoyable summer of personal and family renewal.
Sincerely,
Jerry Randall
Contents:
From the President
From the Editors
Resource Directory Committee
Award Winning Newsletter
1911 Census Totals
Fenian Grants, continued
What a Background
From Our Members
Queries
What’s in a Name?
Net News
Family Cross Reference
Family Group Sheet
CCGS Membership List
Nothing New
The Society and Contacts
{Source: Page 1, Cumberland Roots, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 19, 2001}