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Break Through Those Brick Walls
Saturday, July 1, 1:00 p.m.
Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
101 East Hunt Street, McKinney
Do you have a Brick Wall you just can’t seem to break through? The North Collin County Genealogical Society is here to assist you! Whether it’s a Brick Wall, you’re new to Genealogy and don’t know how to get started or just interested in meeting others with a similar interest, come to the Library's Genealogy Area. You don’t have to have ancestors from Collin County or even Texas to take advantage of this opportunity! This assistance is FREE!
The City of McKinney and the McKinney Public Library System are not in any manner connected with this meeting, and neither the City of McKinney nor the Library endorses any position expressed by the groups sponsoring this event.
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Google earth and Genealogy
Thursday, July 13, 6:45 p.m.
Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
101 East Hunt Street, McKinney 75069
The North Collin County Genealogical Society invites you to their monthly meeting. The Special Guest Speaker is Mr. Mike McKee.
Learn how to use Google Earth to tell your ancestor's journey to the present. Mr. McKee will show how to use the free Google Earth program to track the migration of your ancestors and how to place images and documents into a virtual tour that can be shared on websites, blogs or as a presentation at your next family reunion. This will be a wonderful program for anyone who is trying to organize their records for presentation and for those who just want to make their family histories more visually interesting.
This is a FREE event that is open to all.
The City of McKinney and the McKinney Public Library System are not in any manner connected with this meeting, and neither the City of McKinney nor the Library endorses any position expressed by the groups sponsoring this event.
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Thunders speak : biographies of nine special original people
by James P. Dowd with a contribution by James A. Clifton
Contains biographies of nine notable Native Americans including Shabni, (mixed Ottawa and French blood) who fought for the British as an aid to Tecumseh in the War of 1812; Makesit, a Potawatomi leader involved in treaties signed with the United States which ceded the homeland of his band; Captain Billy Caldwell, son of a Mohawk woman and an Irish soldier in the British army; Brave Bear, a young Lakota Sioux tried and executed for murder; Starr Wilkenson, of mixed Cherokee and African blood, whose escapades led him to Idaho and Oregon; Totuya or Maria Lebrado, the grand-daughter of the last great leader of the Yosemite; White Cloud, a Winnebago mystic; and Wabansi, a Potawatomi warrior chief.
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