Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference online registration ends August 20th

Saturday, August 20th is the last day to register online for the upcoming FGS Conference in Springfield, Illinois. You may also mail in a registration as long as it is postmarked by the 20th. If you have already registered, what about adding one or more of the luncheons, a workshop, the FGS 35th Anniversary celebration, […]

Minnesota Normal Schools publications

That’s Normal School as in teacher’s colleges. Many such schools across the country had newsletters and that includes those in Minnesota. These provide great insight into the school, curriculum, faculty, students, alumni, and education in general. In Minnesota most of these became state universities. Some of these school publications had literary offerings, ads from local […]

FamilySearch updates

1.8 Million Records and Images Added to 23 U.S. Collections Additions Made to Collections from Seven Other Countries  2 August 2011 Historic records from eight countries have been digitized and added to FamilySearch.org. In addition to 1.8 million new U.S. records, collections from seven other countries were added: Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, and […]

Genealogy library electronic news

These are three examples of helpful electronic publications from libraries that have extensive genealogical research collections. I have researched in all three libraries and highly recommend them and their publications. Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri:   http://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy/news-bytes-newsletter  Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois: http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/  Allen County Public Library, Genealogy Center:  http://www.genealogycenter.org/Community/E-zine.aspx

Take the bus to FGS Springfield!

If you live in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois and are planning to attend the September 2011 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Springfield, Illinois, you need to know about two bus trips! The Minnesota Genealogical Society and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society are both sponsoring coach bus trips to Springfield. It’s more fun to […]