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Please submit your family reunion pictures to share in the next newsletter!
This was a Zoom family reunion from they mother's maternal side of the family. Most of the people in the picture, I had never met before. They were discussing about the ease, both financially and time, of the Zoom family reunion!
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Gravestone Dedication Ceremony
Written by: Phyllis Grimes
One of my most memorable trips this summer was returning to my hometown, Evansville, Indiana, for a Grave Marker Dedication and Remembrance Ceremony for my cousin’s parents, Cecil and Gladys Grimes. My cousin, The Reverend Darrell Grimes, lost his parents in the late 1960s within a year of each other. He was a very young child at the time. In my role as the family historian, Darrell shared with me his wish to place headstones on his parents’ graves and to have a ceremony commemorating the occasion.
I pause here to give you a brief description of a Grave Marker Dedication Ceremony:
It is a type of memorial service that occurs when a deceased person’s headstone is placed at his/her burial site. There are no strict guidelines to follow for the ceremony, so what you do it is entirely up to you. Some people also hold grave marker dedications at the grave sites of their ancestors’ years or decade after their deaths.
A few months following our initial conversation, Darrell contacted me to advise he had purchased the headstones and coordinated with the cemetery on the date the placement would be completed. He expressed his interest for the family to meet him in Evansville for the commemoration.
Subsequently, he assigned tasks to several family members regarding the ceremony. Even Mother Nature had a role, and she came through, providing us with a temperature of 82 degrees and a low humidity of 51 percent on the day of the event.
The ceremony opened with a prayer and Darrell thanked everyone for coming. He spent a few moments reflecting on his childhood and the loss of his parents, expressing both gratitude and sadness. An expression of gratitude for his loving family who continued to nurture him after his parents died and sadness of losing his parents at such a young age. Next, the elderly family members shared their fond memories of both Gladys and Cecil, giving the grandkids an opportunity to learn about their ancestors.
I was very pleased with the younger generation, watching them as they intensely listened to the elders speak. They were well represented and exhibited great reverence for the occasion.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, I congratulated my cousin on a job well done and mentioned that his parents would have been proud of the man/grandfather he had become.
Later that evening, following a family tradition, we all headed out to a local restaurant and spent some much-needed, quality, family time.
Article, Instructions on Grave Marker Dedication, by: Talia Kennedy, Updated on September 29, 2017
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This was seven years ago when I was attending another funeral. I was leaving the graveside when I happen to look down and there was my grandmother’s gravestone. The amazing thing about me finding where she was buried happened to be I was unable to attend her funeral because I was pregnant with my daughter at the time and the family thought it was best I didn’t go because my delivery date was coming up the following month. They weren’t sure how I might take seeing her in her coffin. I really regretted letting them talk me into not going to my grandmother’s funeral, but the good news turned out, the next month when my daughter was born it just so happened it was on my grandmother’s birthday.
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One Clue
By: Paulette Howard
One piece of information can lead to so much more! Our fabulous President, Marie Scott, sent me an email asking if the information within could be about my Great Grandmother. I read the email and screamed that the likelihood was great at this being true. I called the cemetery and the man I spoke to stated he had no information but referred me to the funeral home. I called the funeral home and the man stated he remembered my Great Grandmother because her last name was ‘Word.’
While he looked for information from his 1949 files, he sadly informed me that those records were missing. He said he would attempt to get a death certificate for me. I have not yet followed up on this but will do so because one piece of information can lead to so much more!
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Upcoming October 2021 Events
- October 5, 2021 - Executive Board & Board Meeting - 7pm
- October 8, 2021 Social Media/Website Trial Run of Mtg & Committee Meeting - 6 pm
- October 9, 2021 - General Meeting - "Revolutionary War & DAR" - S. Murphy & M. Elliott - 10am
- October 14, 2021 - Efficient Genealogy Research - Course 3/wk2 - 7pm - R. Matthews
- October 19, 2021 - Program Committee Meeting - 7PM
- October 20, 2021 - "Using Manuscript Collections in your Genealogical Research" - R. Matthews - 7pm
- October 26, 2021 - Bylaws Committee Meeting - 7pm
- October 28, 2021 - "African American Lineage" - R.Matthews - 7pm
Upcoming November 2021 Events
- November 11, 2021 -"Efficient Gen. Research" Course 3/ Wk 3 - R. Matthews - 7pm
- November 13, 2021 - General Meeting & Elections "Strategies for Researching Enslaved Ancestors" - A. Dorsey - 10am
- November 18, 2021 - "African American Lineage" - R. Matthews - 7pm
Upcoming December 2021 Events
- December 7, 2021 - Executive Board & Board Meeting - 7pm
- December 8, 2021 - Membership Committee Meeting - 7pm
- December 9, 2021 - "Efficient Gen. Research - Course 4/ Wk 1 - R. Matthews - 7pm
- December 11, 2021 - General Meeting & Party - "Spkr from Avery Research Center - Charleston, SC." - 10am
- December 21, 2021 - Finance Committee - 7pm
- December 23, 2021 - "African American Lineage" - R. Matthews - 7pm
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Past Meetings - July, August & September
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July Meeting - "Adoption & Your DNA" - top row
August Meeting - "Resources & Strategies for West Indian Family Research" - Middle row
September Meeting - "Writing Obituaries - A Historical Document" - Bottom row
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Cemetery Project
How many Blacks/African-Americans are buried in AZ?
We might find out in 2022! Stay tuned
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Happy Birthday to our Q3 members!
Jonda |
Shamsiddeen |
1-Oct |
Yvette |
Campanella |
15-Oct |
Marie |
Scott |
15-Oct |
Lamont |
Monroe |
17-Oct |
Robert |
Scott |
20-Oct |
Margot |
Monroe |
23-Oct |
Cheryl |
Wethers |
15-Nov |
Kimberly |
Reynolds |
17-Nov |
Lee |
Peavy |
20-Nov |
Gwendolyn |
Humphries |
21-Nov |
Elaine |
Hadnot |
25-Nov |
Luke |
Hadnot |
4-Dec |
Isaiah |
Shamsiddeen |
4-Dec |
Helen J. |
Poole |
8-Dec |
Arlene |
Everett |
19-Dec |
Charmaine |
Bonner |
31-Dec |
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BFGHS Newsletter
Our newsletter will arrive quarterly (January, April, July and October) to paid members. Please add vpbfghs@gmail.com to your contact list to help ensure its arrival in your inbox. You may submit stories, research information, genealogy hacks, etc., along with a graphic and any web link(s) one month prior to newsletter deadline to vpbfghs@gmail.com. See chart below
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