Category Archives: News

This year’s Illinois State Genealogical Society (ISGS) conference promises to be big, with a variety of speakers and topics over a day and a half, a banquet dinner, and a youth workshop!  The conference will be held Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2012 […]

This year’s Fox Valley Genealogical Society (FVGS) conference will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 8am to 4pm at Grace United Methodist Church, 300 E. Gartner Road, Naperville, Illinois.  This year’s speakers are Juliana Szucs Smith and Loretto “Lou” Dennis Szucs.

On Saturday, September 29, 2012, Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society (TCGHS) will hold it’s tenth annual genealogy workshop “Harvest Time for Genealogists.”  The workshop will be held from 9am to 3pm at the TCGHS Library in the Ehrlicher Research Center, 719 N. 11th Street, […]

I just received word about the winners of this year’s ISFHWE Excellence-in-Writing Competition!  Unfortunately, I was not among the winners this year, but that’s what I get for waiting until the last minute (literally…oh wait, I did that last year too and still took third […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Findmypast.com is just full of exciting news this week.  Yesterday they announced a new partnership with the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS).  Today, I got some news about the expansion of their US collection.  The press release I received is below.

I received a copy of this press release earlier today and thought I’d share it with my readers. Findmypast.com Announces Partnership with Federation of Genealogical Societies Partnership makes records available to findmypast.com and creates a vital source of revenue for local societies LOS ANGELES, August […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.