April is just around the corner...

There is still space on our April 1st Bus trip!!

Want to join us on a bus trip to Montgomery Memorial Library in Conroe....plus lunch at Pie in the Sky???

Contact Pam Walton today

281-358-6449

 The Humble Area Genealogical Society Outing

Trip:   Conroe Library 

Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Place: Old Stein Mart parking lot 1153 Kingwood Dr. 

            Park over toward Kingwood Dr.

Time: Load bus 8:45 AM       Bus leaves for Conroe at 9:00 AM

           Leave: 4:00 PM     Please be on the bus at 4:00 PM

Arrive: 4:50 PM. Stein Mart parking lot.

April THAGS General Meeting:

Date: Monday, 14 April 2025

Time: 7 PM

Format: Hybrid, In-person at Kingwood FHC, or on ZOOM

ZOOM link will be emailed soon as well as day of presentation.

Presentations: "Early Lufkin, Texas--An African American Perspective"                           

 "How Old Handwritten Pages and News Clippings lead  to Following in my Family's Footsteps"

Join us as Ron and Vee Price share their family stories!

Peacetime momentum following WWII jumpstarted great growth in industry and population in Lufkin, Texas.  Its leaders in industry, banking and commerce left schools, roads and buildings as namesakes.  However, its African American citizens were largely ignored in the press and society due to their modest standing in society.  But this did not mean they were not able to enjoy full, rich lives.  Ron Price will spotlight a noteworthy time in the lives of his ancestors as they enjoyed high school, swing dancing and "zoot" suits.  They built diverse businesses, churches across all denominations and neighborhood schools.  In other words, this generation thrived while enduring Jim Crow and segregation.

Venecia "Vee" Price will discuss the unplanned but unbelievably exciting process of inadvertently discovering her Aunt Beth's decades-old handwritten memoirs and Vee's decision to combine those documents with the numerous newspaper clippings and mementos she collected over many years as an amateur genealogist.  The result led to Vee writing an award-winning book that was used as the basis for Vee and her family to follow in their ancestor's footsteps.

Ron Price is a retired engineer, coach and lifelong amateur genealogist.  He has independently published eleven books, all available on Amazon books, including historical fiction, biographies, children's books and science fiction.  Some are also available online from Barnes and Noble, Walmart, and Thrift reads.  Ron was born and raised in Lufkin, where his family has lived for a century, and homestead title history preceded the Republic of Texas.

Venecia "Vee" Sutton Price is a wife, mother, retired engineering manager, mentor and long-time amateur genealogist.  She independently published the augmented memoir, Beth Fortner Moseley, Her Story," which won the Texas State Genealogical Society's grand prize for books in 2022.  Vee also has the honor of having copies located in several schools and public libraries in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama.  A native of the noted Greenwood District (Black Wall Street) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Vee has collected numerous articles, documents and mementos relating to her paternal and maternal ancestors dating back to the Civil War.

THAGS Mentor Monday

Date: 21 April 2025

Time: 7 PM ZOOM

Bring your Questions

LunchBunch . . . save the date . . . Friday, 25 April 2025.