The Fifth Year - 2002:

Officers:

Elected:

President: Linda Jolly
Vice-President: Roger Smith
Secretary: Linda Waldron
Treasurer: Ann Freeman

Appointed:

Required:

Librarian: Vacant
Parliamentarian: Rhett Williamson
Historian: Marcia Atkins

Optional: (and may not always exist)

Publicity: Mary Walker
Chaplain: Willard Tumlin
Newsletter Editor: Marcia Atkins & Irene Jackson
Web Master: Carole Gregory
Membership: Gwen Thigpen

January:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: How To Go About Tracing Your Native American Ancestry, a film, presented by Roger Smith.

February:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Sons of the American Revolution - Who, Why, How by Henry Manning Dreyer, Jr. in Revolutionary War uniform.
The Bits, Bytes 'N Nibbles column about computer basics, debuts in the Society newsletter.  It continues monthly (with the exception of September 2002) until the final column in October 2002.  I suspect much of it was over the head of most members.  My long and intimate association with computers made it all too easy to assume a level of knowledge that simply wasn't there.
The Society's original Constitution and By-Laws, from August of 1998 are published in the Society newsletter.  Note: As of today (March 2020), it is still in effect (with two amendments).  It is available on our web site, both as a viewable web page and as a down loadable PDF file.
The Computer Special Interest Group schedules its meetings for the 1st Monday of the month at the Library.

March:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: The regular meeting was held at Ryan's Steak House on Highway 5 in Douglasville, as a celebration of the Society's 4th birthday.
The Computer Special Interest Group Changes its meetings to 2nd Wednesday of the month, due to conflicts for many members.

April:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Resources at the LDS libraries in Douglasville and Utah by Linda Moulton.
27^th - Joe Baggett, long time genealogy enthusiast, author and publisher, passes away.
Irene Jackson misses her very first meeting of the society.  She has been at every single meeting prior to this one, including the very first organizational meetings.

May:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Sharing of Breakthrough Moments by the membership.
A new name is adopted for the Society newsletter.  It is now called "The Skint Chestnut Logs - A Journal of the Douglas County Genealogical Society."

The name is a homage to the original name of the community where we are head quartered, which was known as Skint Chestnut.  It was later incorporated as Douglasville, and serves as the county seat.  The new name for the newsletter was adopted unilaterally, without a member vote, by the editors (Marcia Atkins and Irene Jackson).  Prior to this it was known simply as the "Douglas County Genealogy Newsletter," which was a not so imaginative and rather boring name.  The new name seems to have caught on, as there were no objections and, actually, some praise.  It remains in use, and probably will do so as long as the newsletter exists.

June:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: New Manchester Manufacturing Company and Other Old Mills of Douglas County, and Their Original Owners by Daniel Emsweller.
Meeting re-scheduled to Monday, the 24th, due to speaker (above) being unavailable Thursday night.

July:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Family Artifacts and Histories by six (6) of the members.

August:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program, only six (6) members present.  Must be vacation time!

September:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Mountain Men of the Early 1600s and Archaeological Excavations in Douglas County by John Bailey.

October:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Migration Routes Across the Country by Myron House, past president of the Carroll County Historical Society and Genealogical Society.

November:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Cryptic Clues From The Bone Yard, by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, including a video presentation.
Election of Officers for 2003.

December:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Christmas Dinner, held at Ryans Restaurant, in Douglasville, no documentation.