StLGS June Meetings and Events

We hope you were able to attend our Family History Conference in May, but if you missed it, no worries. The recordings will be available until the middle of August. We have a wonderful hybrid monthly meeting coming up next week, a German Special Interest Group meeting, and a class on Catholic church records. In addition, we have updated the StLGS website to include all of the upcoming meetings and classes for the summer. Time to open your calendars and check out the details below!

June StLGS Hybrid Monthly Meeting

Saturday, 11 June 2022

"Reassembling a World War II Service Record" presented by Thomas Richardson, Expert Archives Technician at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis; 10:00 a.m. (Central); free and open to all. In-person meeting will be held at the StLGS office, 4 Sunnen Drive, Maplewood, Missouri 63143.

Learn how to research a World War II veteran's service record if it was impacted by the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center. Mr. Richardson will examine different types of document sources, databases, and ways you can reconstruct a service record from that time period. He will share his own experience of recreating his grandfather's WWII record that was ninety percent damaged in the fire.

NOTE: This meeting will NOT be recorded.

Whether you attend in person or via Zoom, you must register for this meeting. More details and instructions are on the StLGS website.

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June StLGS Hybrid SIG Meeting

StLGS German Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: Wednesday, 15 June 2022

"World War I on the Home Front: the German American Experience," by Dr. Petra DeWitt, 7:00 p.m. (Central).  In-person meeting will be held at the StLGS office, 4 Sunnen Drive, Maplewood, Missouri 63143.

Dr. DeWitt will outline several organizations initiated during mobilization and explain their impact on the German American community. The war created anti-German sentiments in the U.S. resulting in harassment of some people of German heritage and the renaming of streets, but it did not end German culture in the state. Learn more about the relationship between individuals and local, state, and national institutions during the war.

Special Interest Group meetings are free and open to all, but registration is required. More details and instructions for registering are on the German SIG page on the StLGS website.

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June StLGS Hybrid Class

Classes for StLGS members are now hybrid. You may attend in-person at our office in Maplewood or via Zoom. Check out the website to register for this class, and see the two additional ones just added. Classes are currently only open to StLGS members, so why not join StLGS to get free access to our live and recorded classes!

Researching Your Catholic Ancestors: Saturday, 18 June 2022

Taught by Rena Schergen, archivist for the St. Louis Catholic Archdiocese; 1:00 p.m. (Central); preregistration required for everyone. (More information and instructions for registering at the website link above.)

Digital Recordings Now Available from the 2022 Family History Conference

Get in Your Car and Go—Midwest Archives and Libraries

Featuring Dr. David McDonald

Also: Christina Miller, Ilene Murray, Amy Waters, and Carol Whitton, CG

Your registration includes seven of the lectures, an electronic copy of the syllabus, and a separate PDF of one of the lectures that failed to record. Lectures include:

• "Archival Collections and Genealogy: Illinois" (David McDonald)
• "Planning and Organizing a Research Trip" (Ilene Murray)
• "The Draper Manuscripts and the Wisconsin State Archives and Library" (David McDonald)
• "The State Historical Society of Missouri: Who, What, When, Where?" (Amy Waters)
• "Top Genealogy Libraries in the Midwest" (David McDonald)
• "Missouri State Archives . . . Where History Begins" (Christina Miller)
• "The Presidential Library System" (David McDonald; PDF of slides only)
• "Records in the Courthouse" (Carol Whitton)

All of the information you need to register for the recordings is on our website. Once you have registered through our secure online store, you will receive an invitation to access the web page holding the electronic syllabus as well as links and passcodes to all the recordings. Please note: The recordings will expire in mid-August so be sure to give yourself plenty of time for viewing them all.

Questions? Send an email to programs@stlgs.org.