Aurora Genealogical Society of Colorado
2025 Program Meetings
https://www.auroragenealogicalsociety.com
www.facebook.com/AuroraGenealogicalSocietyCO
https://conferencekeeper.org/event-submissions/
​
If interested in attending, please send request to attend to: AurGenSoc@gmail.com
Attendance is free, however, donations are greatly appreciated.
​
​​
​
​​
​
​​​​​​​​​Tuesday, September 23, 2025 @ 1:00p.m. (MT) "Lineage Societies-What, Why and How"
HYBRID MEETING (In Person and Zoom): Presented by Sandy Carter-Duff, Experience Genealogist
Meeting address: 1298 Peoria Street, Aurora, Colorado 80011 in the Aurora Public Library Hoffman Heights Branch Lower-Level Community Room. Map: https://tinyurl.com/zphxjfrp
​
Sandy will explain what lineage societies are and why it is important to join one. The main emphasis of the program will be on HOW you must document your lineage i.e. what is acceptable and what is not. Sometimes obvious documentation such as birth, death and marriage certificates are not available. She’ll present ways to get around that problem. Finally, she’ll share a list of lineage societies-common and rarely known-which websites to explore specific requirements and make contacts. This information is pulled from a variety of sources that will be included in the handout.
​​
​​​
​​
​​​
​​
​​
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 @1:00pm (MT) "Published Genealogies"
HYBRID MEETING (In Person and Zoom): Presented by David Fryxell, Author, Editor and Experienced Genealogist
Meeting address: 1298 Peoria Street, Aurora, Colorado 80011 in the Aurora Public Library Hoffman Heights Branch
Lower-Level Community Room. Map: https://tinyurl.com/zphxjfrp
​
Someone may already have been at work chipping away at your “brick walls.” It’s never been easier to access the thousands of published genealogies, from books to pamphlets, researched by professional genealogists and your own distant kin. This presentation will show how to find these sources – and how to evaluate and use them without poisoning your own family tree.
​
​
​
​​​​​​
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 @1:00pm(MT) "Opening Up the BLM of Land Management"​​
ZOOM Only meeting: Presented by Carol Darrow, Professional Genealogist
Genealogist can benefit immensely from using BLM GLO records, as these documents offer valuable insight into land ownership and family history. By exploring land patents, surveys, and tract books, genealogists can trace ancestral land acquisitions, uncover kinship ties, and pinpoint where ancestors lived. Utilizing BLM GLO records is a key strategy in piecing together the intricate puzzle of genealogical research.
​
​
Future Presentations:
Tuesday, 27 January 2026 @ 1:00 p.m. (MT), ZOOM meeting - TBA​​
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 @ 1:00p.m.(MT), ZOOM meeting - TBA
​
​
Speaker Bios
​Sandy Carter-Duff: Per her Bio:
Sandy Carter-Duff has been a family history researcher since the 1970’s and started joining genealogical societies in the 1980’s to learn skills and discover resources. Her passion for the research is driven by the fact of being a nomadic Air Force Brat with limited opportunities to be with extended family. It is also driven by the fact of her father’s out-of-wedlock birth and adoption. With documentary proof of her father’s birth parents she began joining lineage societies about 2009 and now belongs to eleven, including the DAR and the Mayflower Society.
Is a past Colorado Genealogical Society membership chair, newsletter editor, publicity chair and president. Also locally a member of Palatines to America and W.I.S.E. Family History Society. Member of several National, State and local genealogical societies.
​
David Fryxell: Per his Bio:
Now based in Aurora, Colorado, David is an award-winning author, editor, speaker and publishing consultant who has been recognized by Who’s Who in America for more than a quarter century. He founded Pitt Magazine, the University of Pittsburgh alumni magazine that was named the best in the country under his editorship, and Family Tree Magazine, the nation’s leading genealogy publication. As a writing expert he has written many columns and authored many books on writing instruction. As editor and publisher of his own monthly periodical from 2003-2014, Deseret Exposure, based in Silver City, NM, David won 14 awards in the annual Top of the Rockies competition sponsored by the regional Society of Professional Journalists. His work in Deseret Exposure twice earned mention among the year’s best essays in the national “Best American Essays” anthology series.
​
Carol Darrow: Per her Bio:
Carol Cooke Darrow is a professional genealogist who works as a lecturer and researcher. She has a degree in history from the University of Texas and is the co-author of The Genealogist's Guide to Researching Tax Records published in 2007. She currently offers two online opportunities to learn genealogy:
Beginning Genealogy classes via Zoom
Write NOW! a family history writing group, also on Zoom
Visit the Colorado Genealogical Society website (cogensoc.us) for more information and registration details about Carol's other classes.
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
