The Minnesota Genealogical Society’s Mid-Month Education News for December 2024 lists classes and webinars as it usually does. It also lists the upcoming hours change for the Hoffman Library in 2025. Then I read about a possible new group that will meet at the Minnesota Genealogy Center. Forest Finns! Of course, I had to learn more. I checked Wikipedia and the FamilySearch Research Wiki and learned more. None of my DNA test results with various companies has shown any Finnish ancestry for me. I do have a Swedish great grandmother and will keep looking at all DNA refinements. In case you are interested in the possible formation of another Interest Group under the umbrella of the Minnesota Genealogical Society, here’s the meeting announcement. The MNGS website is https://mngs.org/. The newsletter is free, but I am a big proponent of belonging to MGS and its Branches, Interest Groups, and Partners.
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Thanks for the cross marketing, Paula. Bob Johnson is the point man for the potential new interest group, and I hope there is interest in it.
If Bob is involved, it is sure to be a great group. Thanks for clueing me in on that.
Hi from Vashon Island!
You have solved a mystery for me! I have DNA matches with people in Finland but Ancestry says my Finns are from Norway/Sweden!!! I know they came early to Delaware but have not firmed that all up yet! So, thank you!
Also my youngest son’s wife descends from Chauncey Wright Griggs, 1832 CT, moved to St. Paul, died in Tacoma in 1910.. He was a lumber baron and came to Tacoma, probably after he cut all the trees in Minnesota! His wife started the Mary Ball DAR chapter in Tacoma. A son lived there in a Frank Lloyd Wright built house. He was a colonel in the Cvil War. Children born in St. Paul. D did his bio in aTPCGS Researcher.