Welcome to Oktoberfest 2021 - Virtual Edition
October 9, 2021
This is the 41st Annual Oktoberfest meeting of OGSGS!
The current time is: 6:33am Eastern Daylight Time on March 17, 2025.
All times are Eastern Daylight Time. The times are the times the presentations will be first available to view. Registered attendees can view recorded presentations at any time after the premier time. Zoom presentations will be available to review the following day
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11:00am - OGSGS Annual Membership Meeting (Recorded at 11am)
Reports from Officers and Committees on the state of the organization along with the election of officers for the coming two years. All members were welcome and requested to attend.
Last years minutes can be downloaded here: 2020 Annual Member Meeting Minutes
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12:00 Noon - "Joining the DAR: A guide for documenting your line to a patriot of the
American Revolution" presented by Sarah Sward O'Connor (Recorded Live Earlier)
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Please use this group to discuss all subjects, general meet & greet, Family History and DNA. This Zoom meeting
will be open the rest of the day for mingling and discussion and participants are
able to come and go as wanted. Check-in with people you only see once a year and/or hook-up for
family history discussion or some in-depth explanations on DNA.
When you get to the discussion group, be respectful if someeone is talking but
announce yourself when a break happens. If no one else is there right now, then you should wait and see if someone
else comes in to join the meeting. If you aren't there when the next person joins, then no one will ever connect!
1:00pm - OGSGS Discussion Group - General, Family Research and DNA (open until 5pm)
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1:00pm - "DNA Triangulation: Brick Walls and Beyond" presented by Jason Lee
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2:00pm - My Grandfather's Travels - A South Carolina Small-Town Boy Explores the
West" presented by Gene Henriksen
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2:45pm - DNA Triangulation: Lost Chapters Found" presented by Jason Lee
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3:30pm - A Place Called Indian Head – A Journey to the Truth about its Location"
presented by David Brinkman with Pamela Hansen and Margaret Waters
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4:15pm - "Extraordinary Ordinary People - From a Few Questions about My Family to
Two Genealogy Books" presented by Dorothy Coles with Eric Powell
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5:00pm - "Comparing the DNA Testing Options" presented by Jason Lee
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