There is no other local organization. The closest society folded last year, and was our mother group. It's a very rural area, in fact, one of the poorest counties of the state. The running joke, which isn't really a joke because it's true, is that there are more black bears in the county than people (grin). If it were a more populated area, then things would most likely be a bit easier.
See my reply to Farad about my opinion on going to quarterly or bi-monthly meetings. The mother group slowly died after doing that (they also moved their meetings from Sundays to mid-week, at 2:30 in the afternoon and then wondered why nobody came...)
All of those would be good ideas, but just not workable in this particular situation. I'd hoped that when the mother group faced disbanding, that they'd opt instead to join with us - most of our members overlap. But they chose instead to fold. There is a larger group not that far away, and they'd love to take over, but they're also having the same issues with volunteers and getting people to fill their positions.
I think that lack of interest is probably coming out of people turning more and more to the internet to pursue their genealogy, and a lot of people just don't care too much about the historical side of things.
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Date: 2014-02-17 02:47 am (UTC)See my reply to Farad about my opinion on going to quarterly or bi-monthly meetings. The mother group slowly died after doing that (they also moved their meetings from Sundays to mid-week, at 2:30 in the afternoon and then wondered why nobody came...)
All of those would be good ideas, but just not workable in this particular situation. I'd hoped that when the mother group faced disbanding, that they'd opt instead to join with us - most of our members overlap. But they chose instead to fold. There is a larger group not that far away, and they'd love to take over, but they're also having the same issues with volunteers and getting people to fill their positions.
I think that lack of interest is probably coming out of people turning more and more to the internet to pursue their genealogy, and a lot of people just don't care too much about the historical side of things.