February 2013 NMGS Email Newsletter
1.
Membership Renewal Deadline
2.
Request for volunteers
3.
February 16, 2013 NMGS Program: Francisco Sisneros: ” A Difficult Birth: The Re-Settlement
Families of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de la Joy de Sevilleta, 1800-1819”
Greetings to NMGS members and friends:
February may be the shortest month, but we have a lot to
talk about.
1. Membership Renewal Deadline
If you haven’t renewed your membership for 2013 (or you wish to become a new member), you have
until March 1st to send in your membership before having to pay a
surcharge. It’s only $25 for one year, or $45 for two. Get four quarterly
issues beginning March 2013 and support our society in providing programs and
services for genealogical community. Visit our website at http://nmgs.org/NMGSMemberForm2012.pdf
to print up a form.
2. Request for volunteers
As always, we are looking for volunteers. Our organization
runs on volunteers. We had to put “Primeras Familias de Nuevo Mexico” on hiatus
until we have some help. We always need help in transcribing, data entry and
editing our books. We need someone to be our Publicity Chair. And, ironically,
we also need someone to be our Volunteers Chair in order to organize our
volunteers. Please send me an email at President@nmgs.org
if you wish to volunteer.
3.
February
16, 2013 NMGS PRogram
The Community Room
In the Lower Level
of
The Albuquerque
Main Library
501 Copper SW
Albuquerque, New
Mexico
(on the northwest
corner of 5th and Copper)
Saturday, February
16, 2013
10:30 AM – Noon
Please note that
our programs are at a new location this year!
The New Mexico
Genealogical Society
Presents
Francisco Sisneros
Noted genealogist
“A Difficult Birth:
The Re-Settlement Families of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de la Joya de
Sevilleta, 1800-1819”
La Joya de Sevilleta, located
strategically in central New Mexico along the Camino Real, was already a large
community before 1819. This presentation will discuss events beginning in 1800
leading up to the conveyance of the La Joya de Sevilleta land grant in 1819,
and will focus on the re-settlement families, the surprising places they came
from, and the difficulties they endured.
Francisco Sisneros is a life-long
student of New Mexico history and culture. As time has permitted over the last
33 years, he has researched numerous articles and made many presentations on
these topics. He and his wife Inez live in Casa Colorada, New Mexico.
After Francisco’s presentation,
join members of the New Mexico Genealogical Society on the 2nd Floor at the
Genealogy Center to research your own genealogy and answer any questions that
you may have.
For more information about our
programs, check out the New Mexico Genealogical Society’s website at
www.nmgs.org.
This program is free and open to
the public.
