The Birmingham Genealogical Society meets the fourth Saturday of each month (ex. Nov. & Dec.) at the Downtown Birmingham Public Library. Guests are always welcome!
Next meeting: Saturday, January 28th at 2 p.m.; Board Meeting at 1:30 p.m.
Meeting Room: Youth Department (Story Castle), 2nd Floor, Main Library building
Speaker: Connie Grund
Program Topic: Today’s DAR Including Research Resources and Membership Information
Come join us and learn about the Daughter’s of the American Revolution (DAR) lineage society. Connie will share resources available to both member and non-members of DAR and provide information on how to join the society. She will be available after her program to discuss membership information one-on-one.
About the Speaker: Connie Haynsworth Grund was born in Birmingham, baptized at the Cathedral Church of the Advent and spent most of her growing up years in Westchester County, New York.
Connie is a full time volunteer serving currently as the Vice Regent of the Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution and Vice Chairman of the KDS DAR School, Board of Trustees in Grant, AL. Connie serves the National Society DAR as National Chairman of Constitution Week. She is also a member of 18 other lineage groups and serves on the board of several.
Connie’s ancestor David Owen brought his family down the Tennessee River on a flatboat, disembarked in Guntersville and went by wagon to Jefferson County. That was back in 1816 and makes Connie the 8th generation of her family to live in Jefferson County. The Owen farm house, built in 1833 is still in Jefferson County owned by the West Jefferson County Historical Society and Connie serves on the Board of Director’s.
Connie has six other family lines that were in Alabama before statehood including Jefferson County pioneers Mortimer Jordan, John Smith and William Rose Sadler, Needham Lee of Shelby County and William Patton and John Brahan of Huntsville. William Patton’s son Robert went on to become the 20th governor of Alabama.
NOTE: Please note the location change from our “regular” meeting room in the Arrington Auditorium to the meeting room located in the Youth Department. We will resume meeting in the Arrington Auditorium in February.
