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Later that summer, an organizational meeting was held at the University Baptist Church with enthusiastic people willing to join and serve as officers, thus was born the Bay Area Genealogical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above article was a summary from two of our Quarterly articles by Carole Varnado.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/President\/In Memory Of.pdf\">In Memory Of<\/a> Carolyn Traweek Hellen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunklinfh.com\/obituary\/carolyn-hellen\">November 4, 1937 \u2013 November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mailing address:<br>Bay Area Genealogical Society<br>P.O. 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