Trash or Treasure? Preparing for the Future of Your History
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The event is hosted by the Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society. Speaker, Marcia Fleming Pertuz, is a retired elementary school teacher and principal. She will be speaking on "Trash or Treasure? Preparing for the Future of Your History." What will happen to all your family history research and artifact? No one knows and values your collection more than you. It's up to you to take control and make a plan.
She has been the treasurer of the Amelia Island Genealogical Society, and is a member of the Amelia Island Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Pilgrim John Howland Society, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the Florida State Genealogical Society, where she serves as a reviewer of applications for the Society’s Pioneer Descendant Certification Program.
Marcia has been doing genealogy for over 30 years. She holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University and has participated in an 18 month Professional Genealogy Online Study Group (ProGen). Professionally she specializes in research in Nassau County, Florida, as well as helping family historians set up systems to organize their research.
Her personal research areas of interest include Pennsylvania, Colonial New England, Colombia, Spain, France, Poland, and Slovakia. In 2011 she traveled to Slovakia where she found family cousins; they in turn visited Fernandina Beach in 2013 and Buffalo in 2015 to visit locations where their family members had lived and to meet their American relatives.