Draft Minutes

Board of Directors' Meeting

August 11, 2008

Report from Your DSFC Board:

by John L. Dunham, Secretary  and Trudy Dunham, President

Membership: We currently have 94 members, and are looking increase that number. This fall the Board will send membership invitations to those who search online for information about their Dunham ancestry. If you know someone we should invite, please send their con­tact information to dunha003@umn.edu, and we’d be happy to send them an invitation as well.

DNA Project: Given advances in DNA testing and research, the Board approved increasing the minimum test level for participation in the Dunham DNA Project to 25 markers. The Board is asking current participants at the 12 marker level to upgrade their test (cost of $49 per participant). Paul C. Dunham, Project Coordinator of the Dunham DNA program will contact those people who have already been tested at the 12 marker level with information about an upgrade to the 25 marker level.  Paul and other board members will be talking with Dunham Family organizations in Great Britain and Singletary organizations to expand or link our Project database. If you would like to contribute specifically to the DNA Project expansion effort, please contact  pcdunham@msn.com

Website: The Board agreed to post the DSFC newsletters on our website, with a two year lag. So look for older editions of the newsletter (dated prior to 2007) on our site in the com­ing weeks. But the big news is the upcoming development of a new site, DunhamGeneal­ogy.org, which will host the major Dunham Family Genealogy lines. This site will feature confirmed Dunham genealogical information, and serve as a replacement and expansion of James Streeter’s earlier Dunham website.   

Board Members: We are looking for members who would like to become more active in our organization! To ensure that we maintain and distribute leadership roles in our organiza­tion, we want to identify people who would like to learn new skills or practice existing skills in a co-, vice- or assistant role, or who have ideas they would like to put into practice to strengthen our organization.  Skills and roles we are specifically looking for include:  treas­urer, newsletter editor, newsletter column or article writer, family historian /genealogy re­searcher, membership chair, Board president, and Board member.  (The people currently fill­ing these roles are happy to continue in them, but not forever! So we’re looking to share the fun and the responsibility with you!) If you are interested, please contact dun­ha003@umn.edu.

Members of DSFC: Anyone with questions or suggestions that you would like to bring to the attention of the DSFC Board, please send them to Trudy Dunham, President, at dunha003@umn.edu, or to any of the members of the Board of Directors.