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The Oakland County Genealogical Society meets at 7:00 p.m. on April 1, 2008 at St. Stephens’s Episcopal Church, 5500 N Adams between Long Lake and Square Lake roads, Troy. The Church has a flat entrance and ample lighted parking. OCGS meetings are open to the public and free of charge. All are welcome.
Unfortunately, our planned speaker, Ms. Joan Griffin is ill, cannot make her presentation.
Ted Jensen, Ph.D., of the Bloomfield Hills Michigan Family History Center, will present on the topic, “LDS Family History Library - Facts, Assets and Future”. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah is a unique resource to the world. The history of the library, the resources of the library and the announced expansion of assets will be discussed. The opportunity to join the effort to index records and the newFamilySearch.org web site will be introduced. These new resources will make worldwide access to the everyday expanding source materials for Family History Research as close as your computer.
Jensen is an Oakland County resident, now retired (Research Chemist) from Ford Motor Company. He was born in California and spent his childhood there. Michigan has been his home for more than twenty-five years. Ted has been working in the Bloomfield Hills Family History Center for over a decade, and in the past was the Director of the Family History Center for several years. He has frequently made presentations on Family History methodology, resources of the Family History Library and Centers as well as the internet site FamilySearch.org. Himself an active researcher, with over 23,000 individuals identified and listed in his family file he continues to do research at home and on the road. (Ted’s wife Gloria is a descendent of an early 1800’s resident of Pontiac. The Stevenson Family home is designated as a Historic Monument.)
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