2025 October President’s Letter
Happy Fall to you. As the cooler weather should be coming to Arizona so should our winter visitors. Our population here in Arizona increases tremendously during our fall and winter months. If you happen to be someone who comes to Arizona to enjoy our mild winters, welcome back.
If you happen to do family history research, we have many different resources you can take advantage of. Our Family History Society of Arizona is one of those resources. We have monthly hybrid meetings at the Tempe Family History Center.
Our yearly dues are very reasonable at just $20 per year for individuals and $25 for family memberships. We have four different monthly Special Interest Group meetings with topics that help you reach your research goals.
The Tempe Family History Center and the much larger Mesa Temple Visitors’ Center and FamilySearch Center. Both these centers have awesome equipment to convert and digitize video, photographs, 35mm slides, and more. There are daily classes of various topics all related to doing family history. There are volunteers who are skilled at helping you find your ancestors in government records, newspapers, local and county histories, and so on. All free of charge.
Please join us for our monthly meeting of FHSA. These meetings are free of charge. We encourage you to subscribe to our organization to take advantage of our member benefits that you can find detailed on our website https://fhsa.org. We also are getting close to our annual meeting where we have professional, nationally known speakers. One of our topics for this meeting will introduce you to using AI (artificial intelligence) for family history research.
Hope to see you attend our meetings. Share your stories or ask your questions of others who share your same passion.
Katie Gertz
FHSA President
