Introduction

Local Southern California genealogy speakers are a regular monthly feature of our organization, the Whittier Area Genealogical Society or WAGS. I am responsible for lining up 10 months of speakers and 2 months of member Show and Tell programs every calendar year for our General Meetings. We also have classes that alternate monthly between Computers and General Interest. And also a Beginner Workshop that runs concurrent during Class time. I only offer this information as a setting for my future posts to my blog BGP - Better Genealogy Programs.

I am not a professional and do not get paid for being the Program Director. My interest is creating better genealogy programs for my society. Hopefully by exploring our Society's programs and priorities your society might engage in helping this blog create better genealogy programs.

I will attempt to make this a monthly feature but only if it finds an audience who is interested in engaging me. I will also attempt to have some of my speakers post to this blog.

One of the first things I did as Program Director was create a unique email address on Yahoo.com for communicating to my Society's leaders and my Speakers. Yahoo.com and Gmail.com are both excellent because you can accumulate your emails in unique folders and always have your speaker communication at your fingertips. And even if you change Internet Service Providers you will always have the same email address.

This is all for now as I am getting ready for my family Thanksgiving time. And that's why I do what I do.