CITRUS COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

THE CITRUS TREE
Website of The Citrus County Genealogical Society

We encourage anyone in the Citrus County, Florida area to come and join us.
The meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month (except February and December) at 10:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lecanto except for the February seminar which is held at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 439 E. Norvell Bryant Hwy, Hernando. Guests are always welcome. We sponsor great speakers and helpful education on many Genealogy subjects. Our programs are great for either beginners or experienced genealogists. Our yearly Seminar is held in February and there is no meeting in December. View information on upcoming programs and speakers, below.--- View directions to our meeting location. Look into becoming a member.

Updated Meeting Information

As most of your are aware, there is a rise of COVID-19 cases. For this reason we are stopping all in-person Citrus County Genealogical Society meetings for the remainder of 2021. Instead we are going to resume our regular meetings online using the Zoom meeting app.
A few days before each presentation, Mary Ann Machonkin will send an email to members with a link to the Zoom program. Click on the link at the time the meeting is scheduled to start. (Please note: These presentations will not be accessible on this website, you must use the link provided in the email to view the program.)

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS (VIRTUAL ONLY VIA ZOOM)

September 14 – Lord Preserve Us! Church Records for Family History Research

Webinar presented by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA. Not all of our ancestors belonged to an organized religion. For those who did, the records which have survived until today can often be helpful to genealogists. Names, dates, relationships, places of new and former residences, burial location, and other details may be learned. With some background knowledge of your family, and of the area in which they lived, it may be possible to find church records for your ancestor.
For ancestors who resided in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, the religious resources are especially rich. Churches related to specific ethnic groups may give us clues to the old country. More and more southern church records are surfacing and serve to replace many burned civil records. Church records may predate the civil recordings of births, deaths, and marriages

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