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Permian Basin
Genealogical Society Fall Workshop
September 17, 2005 - Saturday 8:00AM - 4:00PM
First United Methodist Church, Fay Rodman Hall
217 West 5th Street (behind the Church)
Speaker: Pat Gordon
Topics:
Genealogists' Guide to Open Records
Beyond Vital Statistics:
Just Who Are These People Anyway?
Down and Dirty: Agricultural
Research
Going Digital: Using a Digital Camera and Scanner for Family History
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Pat Gordon
B iographical
information
Pat Gordon's interest in genealogy began innocently enough when she
decided in the late 1980s to find out where her maternal great grandmother
died of tuberculosis in Colorado. She soon found the answer to that
question, but by then she had other questions that needed answering, and
the questions keep coming faster and
faster and faster much faster than
the answers. So she is still searching
with little hope of ever catching up with all the questions.
Since she likes to place her ancestors in their social
settings, she does more than collect names. She spends a lot of time
learning about the time and place in which they lived. In addition to
hanging out in courthouses and libraries, she spends considerable time in
university archives and researching aging newspapers.
She served two terms as president and one term
as vice president of
the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. She teaches
college
journalism.
updated:
08/23/05
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Permian
Basin Genealogical Society