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Annual Events: | ||
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![]() | Martin Luther King Day | |
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![]() | Groundhog Day | |
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![]() | Abraham Lincoln's Birthday | |
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![]() | Valentines Day | |
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![]() | Presidents Day | |
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![]() | George Washington's Birthday | |
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![]() | Start of the Battle of the Alamo, 1836 | |
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![]() | Battle of San Patricio, 1836 | |
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![]() | Battle of Agua Dulce, 1836 | |
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![]() | Sam Houston's Birthday | |
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![]() | Texas Independence Day | |
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![]() | Battle of the Alamo | |
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![]() | Start of the Battle of Refugio, 1836 | |
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![]() | Final Battle for Refugio, 1836 | |
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![]() | St. Patrick's Day | |
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![]() | Battle of Coleto Creek, 1836 | |
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![]() | Massacre at Goliad, 1836 | |
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![]() | Battle of San Jacinto | |
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![]() | Peace Officers Memorial Day | |
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![]() | Armed Forces Day | |
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![]() | Independence Day | |
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![]() | Labor Day | |
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![]() | Patriot Day | |
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![]() | Star Spangled Banner Day | |
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![]() | Constitution Day | |
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![]() | Battle of Gonzales October 2, 1835 | |
First Battle of the Texas Revolution - Come and Take It Cannon Battle | ||
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![]() | Columbus Day | |
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![]() | Battle of Goliad, 1835 | |
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![]() | Siege of Bexar Began, 1835 | |
First Major Campaign of the Texas Revolution Oct 27 - Dec 9 | ||
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![]() | Navy Day | |
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![]() | Battle of Concepcion, 1835 | |
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![]() | Halloween | |
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![]() | Battle of Lipantitlan, 1835 | |
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![]() | Veterans Day | |
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![]() | The Grass Fight, 1835 | |
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![]() | Pearl Harbor Day | |
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Regular Events: | ||
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Speaker will be Charlie Gardis | ||
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Speaker - Susan Kaufman with Clayton Library will discuss what is available at Clayton as well as Persi | ||
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Speaker: Jeremy Belkin with Family Tree DNA
Topic: DNA, What is it and how to use it. | ||
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![]() | Free Genealogy Lecture Clayton Library Friends | |
Clayton Library Friends meeting with a presentation by Fidel G. Ramirez entitled "Genealogy to Go - Mobile Devices and Apps". Meeting held at Clayton Library, 5300 Caroline, Houston, Texas. | ||
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Speaker: Kameron Kent Searle will be presenting his findings about Stephen F. Austin's second colony in Texas, "The Lake Creek Settlement". This is rediscovered history about Montgomery County and the people who settled there. | ||
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Speaker: Chris Daniel, Harris County District Clerk
Mr. Daniel will be speaking to us about what you can find in the District Clerk records. This is where you will find divorces and criminal records and many interesting lawsuits. Come join us to discover new and fascinating roads to your ancestry. | ||
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![]() | Cemetery Memorial Preservation Workshop | |
Waller County Historical Society
Pattison Area Volunteer Fire Department meeting room 2950 FM 359 in Pattison, Texas For information call: Truett Bell (281) 375-5793 | ||
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Guest Speaker - Linda Reynolds with the East Texas Research Center at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She will be speaking on what you can find at the Research Center and on how to preserve family treasures. | ||
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Speaker: Ms. Cary Hall
Come join us to hear Cary Hall present her case study entitled "The Mystery of Lillie Mae Ford, documenting husbands and more" You will find this presentation not only informative but very entertaining. You will not only find out how many husbands she had but how Cary found out about them. It is an interesting trail to follow and one we can learn much from. | ||
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Installation of Officers for 2016 | ||
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![]() | Happy Valentines Day | |
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![]() | President's Day | |
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Genealogist Jon Edens will be speaking about restoring an old abandoned cemetery in Conroe and the genealogy of some of those buried there. | ||
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![]() | St.Patrick's Day | |
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New Kentucky Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas will have a presentation about their organization | ||
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![]() | Good Friday | |
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![]() | Easter | |
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![]() | New Kentucky Chapter DRT - Texas Lineage Research Day | |
Chaparral Library - 31350 Friendship Drive | ||
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![]() | TAX DAY | |
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![]() | BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO | |
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![]() | EARTH DAY | |
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![]() | SOCIETY MEETING | |
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![]() | NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER | |
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![]() | MOTHER'S DAY | |
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![]() | ARMED FORCES DAY | |
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![]() | **SOCIETY MEETING** | |
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![]() | MEMORIAL DAY | |
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![]() | FLAG DAY | |
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![]() | FATHER'S DAY | |
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![]() | SOCIETY MEETING | |
We are so glad to have Kameron Searle as our speaker again. He will share with us more about early Texas history and Sam Houston and his grey horse. | ||
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![]() | INDEPENDENCE DAY | |
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Our Guest Speaker will be Paul N. Spellman, Ph.D. Dr. Spellman is Professor of Texas and U.S History at Wharton County Junior College in Richmond, Texas. He will be discussing his book "OLD 300 GONE TO TEXAS" which details the lives of the original 300 settlers that came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin. | ||
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Our Speaker will be Carl Smith. He is the new head of the Genealogy Department of the Montgomery County Library in Conroe. He will be telling us about the new services at the library including equipment and programs. | ||
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![]() | LABOR DAY | |
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![]() | GRANDPARENTS DAY | |
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What do you do with all this Genealogy Stuff you've accumulated? Come Saturday and get some new ideas. Our Special Guest Speaker will show us how to organize our collection of data (mess) and put it into a beautiful story of our family. See you there. | ||
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![]() | COUMBUS DAY | |
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We will be having a special webinar presentation as our program on Saturday. The webinar is titled "Ticked Off - Those pesky pre-1850 Census Tick Marks", by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen. We think that you will find it most helpful and educational about the 1850 and prior census records. We will also be announcing the Nomination Committees selection of nominees for office for 2017. We will be voting on these nominations at the November meeting. | ||
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![]() | HALLOWEEN | |
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![]() | DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS | |
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![]() | ELECTION DAY | |
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![]() | VETERAN'S DAY | |
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![]() | SOCIETY MEETING - Library Closed | |
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![]() | Library Closed - Thanksgiving | |
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![]() | THANKGIVING DAY - Library Closed | |
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![]() | Christmas Party - Library Closed | |
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![]() | CHRISTMAS DAY | |
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![]() | Holidays are over - We're OPEN!!! | |
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![]() | Inauguration Day | |
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![]() | Society Meeting | |
We will be installing the new officers for 2017. | ||
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Our speaker will be Frank Johnson, author, historian, and member of the Montgomery County Historical Commission. He will be presenting information about his new book, "Rebuke and Forever Silence." The book follows a trail of events from the earliest colonies to the election of 1864, when Lincoln was abandoned by his Party. | ||
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![]() | April Fool's Day | |
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![]() | Palm Sunday | |
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Trevia Wooster Beverly will present her program "What's a Poor Girl to Do?" In a wild time scandalous women wore makeup, short skirts and dyed their hair. They kept company with rough men and supported themselves the only way they knew how. Should we think less of them for what they did,or respect them for making their way in a mostly male world. Fortunately, we do not have to judge either them or their circumstances. The life of these women was nothing like what the movies about the Old West portrayed. | ||
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Trevia Wooster Beverly will be speaking this Saturday. She will tell us about women in the old west. "What's a Poor Girl To Do" will be a fascinating story of how it really was. | ||
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![]() | Memorial Day | |
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![]() | Flag Day | |
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![]() | First Day of Summer | |
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Kameron Searle will speak to us about the life and times of Anson Jones the last President of the Republic of Texas. | ||
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Thatcher Freund will be the Speaker for our July meeting. He will be discussing the importance of people telling their stories. He says "We are nothing except our memories, and every memory is a story. Come find out how to tell your stories so that your children's children will know about you and the times you lived in. | ||
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Paul Spellman will speak August 26 about his World War I book. As we are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of World War I, we know you will find this interesting. His book "Until I Come Home, Love Letters From the War" should be a fascinating journey into the lives of our soldiers. | ||
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![]() | First Day of Autumn | |
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September Meeting will be this Saturday at 10:00 am at Amegy Bank in Tomball. | ||
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Our Speaker will be Kevin Klaus. Mr. Klaus has been with the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records Program for the past 15 years. He has searched the early Court of Claims files, German Collection and archival collection to learn more about the history of Texas. He has discovered the amazing collection of personal letters of early soldiers and pioneers who helped settle our great state. During the past few years he has concentrated his research on the German Collection and the early German settlers that came to Texas under the Adelsverein in the 1840's In the process he has honed his skills in searching the records in Germany. Come join us to here how he has traced some of his own family. | ||
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![]() | Daylight Savings Time Ends | |
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![]() | Veterans Day | |
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Be sure to bring your check for the Christmas Party Dinner Reservation. | ||
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![]() | Thanksgiving Day | |
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![]() | First Day of Winter | |
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![]() | New Year's Eve | |
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![]() | Fat Tuesday | |
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Our speaker will be Carol Ann Waldrop with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She will be telling us of the exciting things happening at the DRT and how to find your ancestors in the DRT records. She will also highlight a book that she donated to our Library about her three times great grandmother, Ann Raney Coleman. Ms. Coleman came to Texas in 1832. She wrote about her experiences and adventures while living in the Texas Gulf Coast area and of her time at the boarding house with Jane Long. | ||
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We will be viewing a recorded webinar by national speaker Amie Bowser Tennant: 1850-1900 U. S. Federal Census Secrets Revealed.
Come and join us for the webinar. Attendance and webinar are free and you are sure to learn something! | ||
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![]() | Palm Sunday | |
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![]() | Good Friday | |
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![]() | Passover Begins | |
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![]() | Easter Sunday | |
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![]() | April Fool's Day | |
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![]() | Passover Ends | |
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![]() | Income Tax Deadline | |
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![]() | Earth Day | |
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Andrew Lee of Family History Fanatics will be our speaker today. He and his wife Devon are avid genealogists. They have spoken at several venues including Roots Tech, Texas State Genealogical Society, BYU Family History Conference and many local societies and libraries. Andrew will be speaking about DNA and what to do with it now that you've done the test. | ||
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![]() | National Day of Prayer | |
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![]() | Memorial Day Celebrated | |
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![]() | Memorial Day (Actual) | |
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![]() | D-DAY | |
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![]() | Flag Day | |
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Fran Ellsworth will be at Chaparral's June 23rd meeting talking about 'Memories, Documents And How to Get Your Point Across on FamilySearch Tree 😉'
Fran's passion is FamilySearch. Much of her time is spent assisting others through social media with their family research as well as working with FamilySearch support and the Chief Genealogical Officer's office. Fran is also the District N Representative for Texas State Genealogical Society. Meeting will be held at the Amegy Bank in Tomball (28201 Business 249) beginning at 10:00. Everyone is welcome to hear Fran and enjoy coffee, snacks and friendships. No cost! | ||
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Following up last month's speaker will be a webinar presentation "Finding Elusive Records" presented by Robert Kehrer, Senior Product Manager of Search and Hinting at Family Search.
The presentation covers finding and using the unindexed records at FamilySearch.org You do not have to be a member to attend! | ||
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Bring your genealogical stumbling blocks (problems) with you to the meeting. As a group, we will brainstorm and try to help each other with these issues. | ||
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![]() | Grandparent's Day | |
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![]() | Fall Equinox | |
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![]() | Daylight Savings Time Ends | |
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![]() | Election Day | |
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![]() | Thanksgiving Day | |
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![]() | Society Christmas Party | |
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![]() | Winter Solstice | |
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![]() | Chaparral Meeting | |
Meeting held at Library in Magnolia - 31350 Friendship Drive (parking and entrance in back of building) | ||
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Meeting begins at 10:00 at the Library in Magnolia, 31350 Friendship Drive (back of building behind Magnolia Medical) | ||
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![]() | Chaparral's August Meeting | |
Webinar on naturalizations | ||
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![]() | Monthly Meeting | |
10:00 at Chaparral Library
31350 Friendship Drive, Magnolia | ||
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Beginning at 10:00
Chaparral Library (31350 Friendship Drive, Magnolia) | ||
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