Introduction to GSHA Blog page

www.ghsaa.org

Hello,

The GSHA board is excited to announce the roll-out of the GSHA Blog page on the GSHA website, Wednesday, December 9th.

To cut costs and move to a modern means of communications and receive information in a timelier manner, instead of every 3 months. the GSHA blog will replace the GSHA Newsletter. This allows all of us to participate in GSHA information gathering and sharing, to send and receive current genealogical, historical articles and presentation dates and times. Also, the GSHA Board can post information on the status of GSHA, financial, conference and web site updates, as they occur. It also gives you, the member, a place to post your short stories and antecedents of your family history.

Let me make this perfectly clear, this does not replace the Nuestra Raices journal, and I encourage you to continue submitting your articles for the journalistic and editorial expertise of the journal staff. Although GSHA members are the heart of GSHA, the journal is the brain and it will continue to be the main source of the in-depth journalism we have come to expect from Ms. Nelson and staff, for which they have provided us over these many years.

The GSHA blog is more informational and for short personal stories of your family history or historical events. So, please consider submitting your stories, genealogical events, and announcements to the blog. Articles must be in electronic form and it is your responsibility for grammar and punctuation. We will not be editors or gatekeepers of the information, though articles will be archived on the blog page, for future references. So, please do not plagiarize or violate the copyright of someone else's work, please get permission, in writing before including in your article. This can jeopardize GSHA’s good name and burden GSHA with great financial liability.

So, how do I submit an article for posting? I am glad you asked. Lynda (Sena) Kouba, GSHA secretary, has agreed to be the receiver of these items and will be the main posting person for our blog. The GSHA representatives will be our field reporters for their respective chapters. They will encourage and receive articles from their chapter members and email articles to Mrs. Kouba for posting. Members may email their articles to Mrs. Kouba at gsha.secretary@gmail.com directly. Again, all items must be in electronic form, any article that cannot be posted because of its format will be returned to the submitter for correction(s). Contact information will be at the end of this announcement.

I am excited about our blog and I hope you will take advantage of being more involved in GSHA’s growth and involvement in genealogical exploration. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me or any of the officers or chapter reps.

Also, those members that do not have access to a computer, you can access the GSHA blog using your smartphone. Just type in www.gshaa.org/blog, in your browser.

Sincerely,

Bob Craig
GSHA President
president@gshaa.org

GSHA Board
Tom Martinez, Vice President
gsha.vp@gshaa.org

Lynda (Sena) Kouba, Secretary
gsha.secretary@gsha.com
Albert Garcia, Treasurer
gsha.treasurer@gmail.com
GSHA representatives
Patsy Vazquez, Southern California chapter representative
Jessica Tidball, Fray Angelico Chavez chapter representative
John Martinez, Utah chapter representative
Arturo Cuellar, Member at Large representative
Contact info:
Lynda (Sena) Kouba gsha.secretary@gmail.com
Patsy Vasquez gsha.screp@gmail.com
Arturo Cuellar gsha.malrep@gmail.com
John Martinez gsha.utahrep@gmail.com
Jessica Tidball, FACC rep, Ms. Tidball is in the medical care field, though not a frontline worker, her job is quite critical and presently is knee deep in monitoring the Covid-19 pandemic for the health provider that she works for. FACC members, please send articles directly to Mrs. Kouba.