StLGS Meetings and a Death in the Family

German SIG Meeting: FamilySearch

Even if you have no German roots, you will likely be interested in the first German Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting for 2018. StLGS Infosystems Director, Bob Goode, will speak on the important website FamilySearch.org at the meeting this Wednesday evening, 24 January, at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium at St. Louis County Library Headquarters. The FamilySearch website, maintained by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, is much more than just a catalog. Learn about the FamilySearch wiki, how to navigate the catalog, digitized books, and many more features included in this comprehensive free site. Although the focus will be on finding more information on German ancestors, all are welcome to come find out more about using this excellent resource.

Trivia Night: Saturday, 3 March 2018

Looking for a fun way to spend a Saturday evening in early March? Like to challenge your knowledge of all kinds of facts in a variety of subjects? Or maybe you would just like to show your support for St. Louis Genealogical Society and all our ongoing projects that need some financial backing? Whatever your motivation, we hope you will join us for the 9th annual Trivia Night, our major fund raising event of the year.

Trivia Night is held at the Richmond Heights Community Center, 8001 Dale Avenue, conveniently located one block south of I-64, just east of Hanley Road.

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and the program begins promptly at 7:00 p.m. Soft drinks and light snacks are provided; outside food and beverages are welcomed. (PLEASE NOTE: Glass containers MUST be carried home at the end of the evening. The Center does not permit them in their recycling or trash.) 

Your trivia enjoyment includes a silent auction of fabulous baskets. (We'll show you some sneak peaks in a future blog!) In addition to the trivia rounds, we'll play 50/50 and Dead or Alive. There will be cash prizes and mulligans will be available. Questions are NOT about genealogy; they are prepared by an experienced trivia hostess and cover an assortment of topics at levels that range from "easy-peasy" to "Really? Who knows that one?"

Ready to register? We welcome you to come individually or with a friend or two for $20 per person. If you have a group, it's $160 per table of eight. You can buy your tickets online or download a registration form from our website and mail it into the StLGS office. Questions? Contact Karen Goode, Trivia Night chair, at programs@stlgs.org .

For more information and a flyer, click here.

To register online at our secure store, click here.

For a link to Google maps, click here.

In Memoriam: Barbara (Lusk) Savalick

We are sorry to report that former StLGS president, Barbara Savalick, passed away on Sunday, 14 January 2018. Barb was very active in the society in the early 2000s, when she served as president from 2001 to 2005. During her tenure, StLGS was invited to be local host for one of the first GEN-TECH conferences, then under the auspices of the National Genealogical Society. Held in downtown St. Louis, the conference attracted a very large crowd in the early days of using technology to enhance genealogy research. Barb was chair of the annual Family History Conference in 2006 and continued to write for the society's Quarterly journal, where she contributed book reviews and some articles.

Barb had a distinguished career before coming to volunteer at StLGS. She was a supervisor at the Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center in St. Louis and was appointed manager for the Federal Women's group representing St. Louis. She went on to become president of the St. Louis chapter of that group. She also served as mayor of Bella Villa, a small village just south of the St. Louis City limits in St. Louis County. She was re-elected several times and was quite proud of that.

In addition to her love of genealogy, Barb was always surrounded by pets, especially her beloved dogs, and she was happiest when she was spending time in the country, on her farm in Monroe County, Missouri, where she was born.

A memorial service will be held in the spring in Shelbina, Missouri, where Barb will be at rest with family members. We extend our deepest sympathy to her sister Ruth, her step-daughters, Debbie and Pattie, and her nieces and nephews.