Important Announcements About Upcoming Events

Important Announcements About Upcoming Events

Irish SIG Meeting

The Irish Special Interest Group (SIG) will hold a meeting on Tuesday, 24 July,  called "Irish Research in the U.S." Led by Irish SIG co-leaders, Carol Hemmersmeier and Kay Weber, this presentation will reinforce the idea that you have to start here before you can get there when doing European research. You'll want to mine those American records thoroughly before moving overseas, and you can learn how best to do so on Tuesday evening. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the St. Louis County Library Headquarters building, 1640 S. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63131.

All SIG meetings are free, open to everyone, and do not require any advance registration.

 July Speaker Series Update/Road Closures

We are delighted to announce that our July Speaker Series on Saturday, 28 July is a sellout, and we are accepting no more registrations, nor can we accommodate any walk-ins. For those of you who have pre-registered, we remind you of the announcement we made this week on Facebook and Twitter that there is road construction currently underway on I-270 with lane restrictions and an imminent closure of the Dorsett Road exit as MoDOT rebuilds the bridge over the highway. MoDOT has not said exactly when the exit will be shut down, but they do maintain a real-time update of work zones online. Although Saturday traffic is usually very light, you may want to give yourself extra time for travel the morning of 28 July and pre-plan your route to Orlando Gardens.

Click here for a link to the weekly MoDOT road closures.

Click here for a map showing the venue at 2050 Dorsett Road and possible alternative ways to get there.

FamilySearch Class at StLGS

 On Saturday, 4 August, StLGS Information Systems Director, Bob Goode, will be offering a class on using the popular, free website FamilySearch at the StLGS office in Maplewood from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. All of the classes we offer at our office are free to StLGS members but pre-registration is required. Bob's class is the first of several in our late summer/fall series. Check out all of the possibilities on our website by clicking here. To register for a class, call into our office on Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon (314-647-8547) or drop a note to office@stlgs.org and put "Class registration" in the subject line.

And finally, a reminder that the StLGS office will be closed on Saturday, 28 July so our volunteers can be at the Speaker Series in Maryland Heights.