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Martin County Genealogical sources available for ancestry research. tree – MCGS offers a variety of services at the genealogy
Due to the pandemic, MCGS plans to continue meeting
Society Kicks Off 2020-21 via webinar until further notice. In October, Jack Cipriani room in the Blake Library including an extensive research
library and access to several genealogy websites. (Due to
Season By Tracing Virginia will discuss Italian research. November will celebrate the the pandemic, the genealogy room is currently closed.)
MCGS members also receive a discount on Vivid-Pix
Mayflower’s 400th anniversary with a presentation by
Ancestors Kurt Bressner, a member of the Stephen Hopkins Colony Restore digital software that enables easy restoration
of the Florida Society of Mayflower Descendants in Vero of faded photos, newspaper articles and documents. For
The Martin County Genealogical Society (MCGS) Beach. In December, David Attride will present stories more information about MCGS membership, activities
will open its 2020-21 season with a “Genealogical about famous and infamous ancestors of MCGS members. and services go to mcgsfl.org or call Lisa Tompson,
Overview of Virginia” presented via webinar by MCGS A retired chemical engineer, David Attride serves on MCGS president, (772) 888-2422.
Vice President David Attride. The free webinar will be the MCGS Board of Directors and, as vice president,
from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18. To participate go to plans the society’s monthly programs. He has written
www.mcgsfl.org and register before September 17. two genealogy books: one on Welsh research and one In Your Community from page 4
Founded in 1607, Virginia was the home to eight tracing descendants of a German emigrant. He is currently
U.S. presidents – from George Washington to Woodrow researching his maternal great-great-grandmother’s Wendy Zuniga.
Wilson – and many Virginians and their descendants ancestral German town. He r f a m i l y
helped settled the American south and west. Attride will In addition to its monthly meetings – where local and donated enough
review the state’s history, the groups who lived there and national experts speak about how to explore your family backpacks and
pencils, paper and
pocket folders to
send 50 Martin
County students
back to school
fully supplied.
And longtime
CCKids partner
Sunshine Health
didn’t miss its
opportunity to
help, shipping an order of supplies to eager volunteers
ready to assemble and distribute to children in
need. “We were a little worried about the impact of
COVID-19 on our back-to-school collections this
year,” said Christina Kaiser, CCKids community
relations director. “But our partners in the community
found a way to get it done. They didn’t forget us.”
In fact, some new partners and volunteers have
come on board since the pandemic began last spring
– groups like the Culture Committee of the Keller
Williams Realty Group in St. Lucie West, which
collected and donated duffel bags and backpacks for
children who have to move from one home to another.
“Every child deserves to know and feel love and know
that someone cares about them,” said Hanoy Carinha,
of Keller Williams Realty. “That’s why we hosted a
duffel bag/backpack drive.”
The Culture Committee is a group of like-minded
individuals with one goal in mind: Give where you
live, said Carinha, adding that she hopes the travel
bags will give some comfort to children during one
of the most traumatic times of their lives.
Still other groups are pooling volunteers to make
sure that children and families – as well as the case
managers who work with them – have enough masks
to safely weather the pandemic. The Ocean Village
Sewing Circle has sewn more than 1,000 masks since
they began the project last spring, donating nearly 400
of them to CCKids. “We’ve given them out to foster
families, to case managers and our clients,” Kaiser
said. “And the group’s most recent donation will allow
us to add masks to the backpacks of school supplies
we’ve received.”
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