Tickets are now on sale for the Saturday, October 21 Bosque Bello Cemetery Tour!

 

Tours will begin every 15 minutes from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM and from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM. Tickets are $10. Tickets will be sold for specific tour times, with only 15 tickets available for each time slot. You are encouraged to purchase tickets as soon as possible to ensure the time slot preferred.

 

Tickets are available at the Fernandina Beach Branch Library at 25 N. 4th Street, hours Monday & Thursday 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
 

If you have any questions about the event or tickets, please call Marie Santry at 321-3460.

 

Additional details about the tour are listed under the October 21 date.

 

 

Due to Hurricane Irma, the September Board meeting has been rescheduled.

The evening's presentation will be a panel discussion "Have You Lost Your Way?" an opportunity to seek assistance in identifying next steps and resources available to move your family history research forward. Priority will be given to questions submitted by September 5 to the AIGS Webmaster at webmaster@aigensoc.org which will be reviewed in preparation for the meeting. Other questions will be addressed as time permits. Panel members will be experienced researchers and fellow members Bob Frey, Sharon Elliott, Marcia Pertuz, Gus Reinwald and Gloria Toomey. Bob Loveless will moderate.

 

Public welcome.

 

“Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is returning Oct. 3. Celebrities who will learn about their ancestors include Scarlett Johansson, Aziz Ansari, Bryant Gumbel, and Garrison Keillor.

An AIGS member will be available in the Genealogy section to answer your pressing research questions.  Come on down, browse the Society's collection, and get some potential new ideas for your family history research!

An AIGS member will be available in the Genealogy section to answer your pressing research questions.  Come on down, browse the Society's collection, and get some potential new ideas for your family history research!

Research Delivered: An Introduction to Newsreaders by Denise Olson

Join us for a guided tour of the older section of Bosque Bello Cemetery. We promise dramatic, humour, and bittersweet stories of men and women who helped shape Fernandina, Amelia Island, and Nassau County from the Civil War Era, through Fernandina's Golden Age, and on into the 1st half of the 20th century. Costumed reenactors will regale with tales of the Union Troops' invasion of Fernandina, a slave family's escape from a St. Mary's Plantation, a Fernandina businessman and Spanish Consular's involvement leading up to the Spanish American War, the life and time of Uncle Charlie, bartender at the Palace Saloon, and other notable members of the community.

 

Ticket purchase information is pinned to the top of the Events page.

 

 

An AIGS member will be available in the Genealogy section to answer your pressing research questions.  Come on down, browse the Society's collection, and get some potential new ideas for your family history research!

An AIGS member will be available in the Genealogy section to answer your pressing research questions.  Come on down, browse the Society's collection, and get some potential new ideas for your family history research!

No general membership meeting in December.