The Fifteenth Year - 2012:

Officers:

Elected:

President: Paul Trew
Vice-President: Carolyn Bell
Secretary: Jane Bryant
Treasurer: Gwen Thigpen

Appointed:

Required:

Librarian: Vacant
Parliamentarian: Vacant
Historian: Vacant

Optional: (and may not always exist)

Newsletter Editor: Paul Trew
Web Master: Chuck Jackson

January:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Family Research by Carolyn Bell.
15^th - Mabel Noles, charter member, passes away at age 64.

February:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Growing up in Douglas County by Vivian Cranford.
Mary Walker rejoins the Society.

March:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: The Beginning, a recounting of the Society's 14 year history, by Myra Wade and Marcia Atkins, both Charter Members, who have been here through it all.
Doris Watson's biography is published in the Society newsletter.

April:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Confederate Soldiers of Company A, 12th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery by George H. (or W) Watkins
Sandra Whittington's biography is published in the Society newsletter.
Sandra Whittington publishes The Hildebrand Family of Douglas County in the Society newsletter.

May:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Lest We Forget: New Manchester and Roswell Deportees by Mary Walker.
Member of the Month - Millicent Nation.
Millicent Nation's biography is published in the Society newsletter.
Paul Trew publishes the story of a distant cousin, William Preston (Wild Bill) Longley in the Society newsletter.

June:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Slide Show of Old Photos of Douglas County by Jeff Champion.
Member of the Month - Benny Roger Smith.
Benny Roger Smith's biography is published in the Society newsletter.
6^th - Chuck Jackson (me, the Web Master) turns 72 years of age!

July:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Field Trip - Macintosh Reserve - picnic dinner and presentation on Chief Macintosh for whom the Reserve is named, by Marcia Atkins and Elaine Steere.
Member of the Month - Lisa Cooper.
Lisa Cooper's biography is published in the Society newsletter.
Larry Wynn's biography is published in the Society newsletter.

August:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: How to Write Your Family History as You Go, by Terry Manning.

September:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: The Technology Useful for Genealogical Research, by Carolyn Bell.
Member of the Month - Sylvia Brown Vick.
Sylvia Brown Vick's biography is published in the Society newsletter.
Paul Trew publishes the completion of A Country Store, the story of his great-grandfather, in the Society newsletter.

October:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Climbing Your Family Tree, by Librarian Chris Wilt, who also brought us up-to-date on the goings on in the Special Collections Room at the library.
Marcia Atkins publishes the William G. Black Family History in the Society newsletter.
Richard Argo publishes Shedding a Little Light on a Dark Corner, a brief history of that mysterious part of Douglas County known as Dark Corner.

November:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: What we Recently Ordered for the Special Collections Room at the Library, by Marcia Atkins.
Mary Walker publishes Good Reasons to do Genealogical Research That Should not be Posted on Your Ancestry Page in the Society newletter.

December:

Newsletter: On File.
Program: Annual Christmas Dinner, held at Logan's Roadhouse (Note: now defunct).
The Assassination of Chief William M^cIntosh, an article excerpted from from the book "A North Georgia Journal of History, Volume II, A Twenty-Three County Compendium of Historic Information," co-written, compiled and edited by Olin Jackson, is published in the Society newsletter.