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I am
Jean Huot
Smoorenburg and moved to
Houston, Texas in 1973 from Massachusetts and to Conroe, Texas in 1977 when I married Anthony
Smoorenburg. I've lived in Montgomery County ever since. Our two children were born in
Montgomery County Texas and all of our grandchildren have been born in Texas -
three
in Montgomery County. For more information about the Smoorenburgs, visit our
nephew's Smoorenburg web site
www.smoorenburg.com.
So over the past years, I've developed strong ties to Montgomery County and
cannot imagine living anywhere else.
Jean & Anthony Smoorenburg
I research primarily in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, The Netherlands, and New
England. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts and former teacher, I was
the was past genealogy
HAL-PC SIG
(Special Interest Group) Leader at
Houston Area
League of PC Users in Houston Texas and have been Deputy Editor of
HAL-PC Magazine since 1991. I am a member of
Clayton Library Friends and the
Montgomery
County Genealogical and Historical Society
(MCG&HS) former editor of their
publication, The Herald and served as VP of membership and publicity. I received MCG&HS' Hall of Fame Award in 2005
as did Jane Keppler in 2004.
To learn more about Texas and Montgomery County History, I did the genealogy research
for my stepdaughter to obtain an Early Settlers Certificate from MCG&HS and to
become a member of the
Daughters of the
Republic of Texas
(DRT) for her ancestor, Hugh Davlin.
As you can see, I'm truly addicted...
I currently teach four
genealogy classes at Lone Star College - Montgomery for
ALL (Adult Leisure Learning):
Beginning Genealogy, Genealogy in the 21st Century, Intro to Researching Across
the Pond after 1850, and Genealogy Software along with
Phyllis Stehm.
Because of the need we saw while teaching our ALL classes, Phyllis
and I recently began MCG-IRG (Montgomery County Genealogists'-Internet
Research Group) to help others learn to effectively search on the
Internet.
"IRG", by the
way, is the exclamation you make when you can't find something on the
Internet! We hope to have a website in the near future. MCG-IRG meets the
first Friday of the month from 9:15 am - Noon and on the first Wednesday
following the first Friday in the evening from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at the
George
& Cynthia Woods Mitchell Library in The Woodlands. Since seating is limited,
reservations are required.
It's a great pleasure to assist
Jane
Keppler on the Montgomery County website to help others with their
genealogy research. Please be patient with us while we revamp the site.
If you have any records or
articles of interest for the Montgomery County web site or wish to volunteer, please email us with the details.
We're always looking for new information and volunteers to help!
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