The StLGS Online Store Has Expanded!

With the introduction of our newly rebuilt online store, we can now offer some extra perks for our friends and members online! We frequently have people asking to purchase gift certificates for StLGS membership, products, and events. Until recently, we've only been able to provide those in-person or via mail. But that is now changing! In addition, we have greatly expanded our selection of books for sale by adding the gently used history and genealogy books in our Trading Post to our online store. We are excited to share the details with you!

StLGS Gift Certificates

When you go to the online store (https://store.stlgs.org) and click on "All Products," you will see the button for "Gift Certificate: Individual Membership $40" right at the top. There are also buttons for a family membership gift certificate, one for $20, and one for $10. You can buy as many as you like by just increasing the quantity. So, for instance, if you want to give someone $50, you can buy two $20 certificates and one for $10. We hope to add the ability for you to choose a specific amount, but that's still in the future.

When you purchase a gift certificate, you will receive a one-time coupon code that your recipient will use to validate your purchase. Please note that member discount coupons do not apply to gift certificate purchases. We hope this will make buying gift certificates a lot easier, especially for those of you who cannot make it into our office.

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Trading Post

Anyone entering our office lobby notices immediately the large collection of books we have for sale. We do offer some genealogy books that are new, but as books become more expensive, and more are being published electronically, we have limited options. However, a burgeoning part of our book sales comes from our Trading Post, an ever-changing collection of donated history and genealogy books that we are able to offer at discounted prices. In the office, the books are arranged alphabetically by state, county, country, and/or subject, so they are easy to browse.

Because we have members in almost all fifty states as well as several other countries, we are delighted to be able to provide access to our Trading Post books to everyone via our online store. When you go to our online store now, you will notice that interspersed with our new books is a wide variety of interesting one-of-a-kind titles at deeply discounted prices. Each book has a thumbnail photo of the cover, and when you click on the thumbnail, you are able to see exactly how many copies we have in stock. We currently have a small selection of maps in the Trading Post, which will be of interest to those of you with English and Irish ancestors. Remember that the Trading Post inventory is always changing, as it's based on donations we receive.

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Some of the current selection of used books in our office

StLGS will have a room filled with new and used books for sale for those attending the Family History Conference on Saturday, 18 April 2026. We look forward to seeing you there! (And it's not too late to register, if you haven't already. Just go to https://stlgs.org and click on the Family History Conference button!

(Many thanks to Joe Ziha, a member of our technology team, and Dave Carr, our sales coordinator, for all the work they've done to bring these enhancements to our online store.)