StLGS October/November Upcoming Genealogy Events

As 2021 rolls into its last few months, we encourage you to continue to stay in touch with us and to take advantage of the remaining programs we have scheduled for the fall. Register for the Fall Speaker Series, featuring a full day of lectures on "Mapping Our Ancestors" in America, enjoy the last Irish SIG meeting of the year, and join us for the November monthly meeting. Behind the scenes, the StLGS programs committee is working hard and almost ready to announce our exciting schedule for 2022. Read on for what's coming up and watch for announcements about next year! 

November 2021 Virtual Monthly Meeting

Saturday, 13 November 2021, 10:00 a.m. (Central)

"Ohio Valley Pioneers: Using the John Dabney Shane Collection" by Dan Lilienkamp, research librarian, St. Louis County Library

John Dabney Shane conducted interviews in the Ohio River Valley during the early nineteenth century. Discover the value of this underutilized resource. Registration for this meeting is now open on the StLGS website.

October 2021 StLGS Virtual SIG Meeting

StLGS Irish Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 7:00 p.m. (Central)

"Placing an Irish Ancestor into StLGS's First Families," presented by Kay Weber, StLGS vice-president of programs and Irish SIG co-leader

Bernard/Barney/Brian King was an Irish immigrant who came to Missouri as a child with his parents during the infamous Irish potato famine. Careful research led to placing him in St. Louis before the Civil War and recognizing him in the First Families program. You can honor your early ancestors by enrolling them in a lineage society with knowledge of the process. Registration for this meeting is now open on the Irish SIG page of our website.

Last call to register for the livestreaming . . . 

2021 Virtual Fall Speaker Series

 

 

Mapping Our Ancestors

Saturday, 16 October 2021

Featuring:

• Identifying Migration Trails (Jacob Eubanks, ass't. manager, History & Genealogy Dept., St. Louis Co. Library)
• Finding an Ancestor's Land at the Bureau of Land Management and in Plat Books (Ilene Murray, StLGS Publications Director)
• Library of Congress Maps (Carol Whitton, CG, StLGS Projects Director )
• HistoryGeo and Sanborn Maps: Rural and Urban Map Research (Bob Goode, StLGS Infosystems Director)

Four lectures via Zoom; all of which will be digitally recorded and posted online for later viewing.

Complete schedule, details on each talk, and photos and biographies of the speakers are now on the StLGS website on the Fall Speaker Series page. 

Registration for the Fall Speaker Series 

Registration for the livestream presentations, including access to the digital recordings, is $40 for StLGS members and $50 for non-members and you can now register in our online store. Prefer to pay by check? A mail-in form is on the website.

Once you have registered, you will receive an email invitation to attend all of the Zoom sessions as they are livestreamed. Your invitation provides access to the event page on our website where you will find downloadable handouts and links and passcodes to the recordings after they are posted. 

Questions? Email: programs@stlgs.org.