GRSNO Meeting

Marguerite Scully, a professional genealogical researcher and lecturer, will give a presentation titled “Organize Your Records and Organize Your Research,” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 16, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and open to the public. It occurs as part of the regularly scheduled meeting of the Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans.

According to Scully, there comes a point in almost everyone’s genealogical research efforts when the lack of organization of the information collected is hindering the ability to make any further progress.

“If family historians become aware of this problem, it is usually because we discover we have spent time collecting records that we already have or we find ourselves having to go back again and again through our records to figure out what we already have and what we are still missing,” she says.

Scully believes strongly that organization is the key to progress with genealogical research. During this presentation, she will describe a way to organize the family history information one already has to avoid “spinning your wheels” and getting nowhere.” She will demonstrate how one’s organized information can be used to identify the records and information that is still missing and keep track of the sources already searched.

Marguerite Scully is the current president of the St. Tammany Genealogical Society and former vice president of the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society.  She has also served as a lecturer for the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research.

For more information regarding this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.