The 10 October Monthly Meeting will be at the Grant’s View branch of the St. Louis County Library.
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  • German SIG: Emigration from the Prussia Province of Westphalia to the Midwest of the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century

    German SIG

    Learn more about emigration from Westphalia’s Catholic region in the 1800s. What sources in Germany may contain information about emigrants? How did they obtain documents in Prussia? What is a farm name, and what exactly is Low German? Featured Speaker: Holger Strugholt, German genealogist The recorded webinar is here.  (Due to a technical difficulty, the first […]

  • Monthly Meeting: Beyond the Document: Extracting Evidence from Context

    Monthly Meetings

    Speaker: Jake Eubanks Experienced genealogists learn to understand documents by exploring historical context: seeking out ancillary documents, scrutinizing record citations, and thoroughly analyzing documents to understand their context. Learn how you can do this too!   Watch the general meeting recording Watch the presentation recording Recording availability: Both recordings will be available through October 13, 2026. […]

  • Irish SIG: Understanding Land Ownership in Ireland from 1600–1900

    Irish SIG

    The Irish Catholic farmer, for the most part, had no rights to land ownership from the mid-1600s to the early twentieth century. How was this possible and how did it come about? Our speaker will explain how the Anglo-Irish landowners acquired Irish property, and how the lifestyle of those landowners impacted the predominantly Irish Catholic […]

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