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SCGS is a member of the Friends of the Delaware Archives

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SCGS is an official Society in the 1940 Census Indexing Project

SCGS is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization

The best part about genealogy

is searching for ancestors

and finding friends.

Lawrence Dillard

Come to a place where we do both!

Spring Discussion Group

12:00-2:00 Mondays at Rehoboth Public Library. Examining the US Census Reports

04/13 - 1790, 1800, 1810

04/20 - 1820, 1830, 1840

04/27 - 1850, 1860, 1870

05/04 - 1880, 1900, 1910

05/11 - 1920, 1930, 1940

05/18 - 1890 alternatives

Recommended resource book: The Census Book by William Dollarhide

If you would like a notebook of blank Census Report pages, etc., contact Marilyn McMahon via the SCGS website or at the March general meeting or Genie Bytes. Cost will be about $5.00 per notebook.

Syl Woolford Lecture

Announcing

On March 7, at the Delaware Public Archives, Dr. Anne Boylan and Emily Green will share the stage to discuss both the suffrage and anti‑suffrage movements that were active in the First State.

During the spring of 1920, all political eyes were on Delaware. The General Assembly was meeting in special session to consider ratifying the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women’s constitutional right to vote. Thirty-five states had ratified; only one more was needed. In this struggle, women experienced a formidable and surprising foe; other women. Nowhere is that more evident than in Delaware, where a massive battle to be the last state to ratify the amendment took place. On June 2, 1920 The Women’s Committee of Delaware Opposed to Women’s Suffrage effectively lobbied the state legislature who voted down the amendment.

This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Tom Summers (302) 744-5047 or e-mail thomas.summers@delaware.gov

Announcing

P. O. Box 1787

Dover, DE 19903-1787

Website: www.downstatedegenealogists.org

Email: info@downstatedegenealogists.org

BUS TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA, PA

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The Downstate Delaware Genealogical Society has finalized plans for our spring trip. We will be traveling to Philadelphia, where we will have the option of researching at the Philadelphia City Archives (a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration), The Philadelphia Free Library or the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. We hope you can make it!

When: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2020

Options:

Philadelphia City Archives (NARA).
Free Library of Philadelphia.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ($8.00 entry fee for non-members of the Society).

Cost: Members of a genealogical society or group in Delaware - $40; Non-Members - $45. Registration Deadline: April 11, 2020

Payment: Completed registration form with check payable to "DDGS" is to be mailed to Conni Miller, 735 Holly Drive, Dover, DE. 19904. Payment must be received on or before May 3, 2020.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds after the registration deadline; substitution allowed.

Departure from Dover: We will meet the bus at 7:00 A.M. in the Greentree Shopping Center parking lot on Route 8 (Forest Street) nearest the corner of Route 8 and Independence, Dover.

Departure from Philadelphia: The bus will leave Philly at 4:00 PM. Instructions regarding the meeting point will be provided on the bus. (If you miss this departure time, be advised the you are on your own to return to Dover at your own expense.)

Return to Dover: About 6:00 PM.

DDGS 2020 Trip Registration Form

Program Announcement

Here's the list of programs that will be presented during the 2019-20 fiscal year:

21 SEP 2019 Michael John Neill: “An Introduction To The Court House”.