Calendar of Events 2026 - St. Louis Genealogical Society

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StLGS meetings are mostly hybrid; they are held both in-person and as webinars that are recorded with speaker permission. All times listed are for the Central Time Zone. In-person meetings are held at the locations specified. Only Zoom attendance and paid events require advance registration, and instructions for each event will be posted on the appropriate page on this website.

Many of our meetings are available as digital recordings.

- - - To watch previously recorded monthly meetings, go to the Monthly Meeting page.
    - To watch previously recorded Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings and for the current year’s schedule of meetings, go to the appropriate SIG page:
      - German SIG
        
        Irish SIG
        
        Jewish SIG

Find a copy of the entire 2026 Meetings and Special Events calendar here.

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Sat., 14 March Hybrid: Clark Family Branch	10:00 a.m.	Monthly Meeting: Connecting Crossroads: Early Settlers and Explorers to St. Charles and St. Louis	Amy Haake-Argyros
St. Charles and St. Louis served as vital hubs for early American exploration. St. Charles was the launching point for Lewis and Clark and the eastern terminus for the Boone’s Lick and Santa Fe Trails. Both cities connected settlers and explorers to the vast interior of the American West. Registration for this meeting is open on the Monthly Meeting page.
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Sat., 21 March In-person only	6:00 p.m.	Special Event: Trivia Night
Back by popular demand after a long hiatus! Join us for an evening of fun and trivia at the Royale Orleans Banquet Hall, 2801 Telegraph Road. More information is now available on the Trivia Night page.
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Sat., 28 March Hybrid: StLGS Office	1:00 p.m.	German SIG Meeting: Free Websites for German Genealogy	Josiah Schmidt
Take a guided exploration of how to access and use numerous free websites for your German family history research. Registration for this meeting is open on the German SIG page.
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No Monthly Meeting in April!
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Sat., 18 April Hybrid: Maryland Heights Community Center	All day	Special Event: Family History Conference—A Genealogical Journey Through Missouri History	John Dougan, Christina Miller, and local speakers
Travel with us through Missouri as you learn more about migration, both to and from the state. Discover more of the resources at the Missouri State Archives. Pick up tips on how to research like a pro, and learn about how maps help bring the history of St. Louis alive. Registration for the conference is open on the Family History Conference page.
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Sat., 25 April Hybrid: StLGS Office	1:00 p.m.	Irish SIG Meeting: Census Returns in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland—Recovering Ireland’s Lost Census Records	Dr. Brian Gurrin
A fire in 1922 destroyed much of the archive in the Public Record Office in Dublin. The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, an all-island and international research partnership, is working to reconstruct these records. The recording of this meeting is now on the Irish SIG page.
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Sat., 9 May Hybrid: Clark Family Branch	10:00 a.m.	Monthly Meeting:The Missouri Story of the Trail of Tears	Bill Ambrose
The Missouri story of the Trail of Tears—the forced removal of 17,000 Cherokees between 1837 and 1839—is an exploration of the state’s earliest citizens and how many of them helped these indigenous people survive their ordeal. Come meet your ancestors along the trail. Registration for this meeting will open soon on the Monthly Meeting page.
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Sun., 7 June Zoom only!	1:00 p.m.	Jewish SIG Meeting:Origins and History of the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis	Stephen Logsdon
Jewish Hospital (now Barnes-Jewish) has served St. Louis for more than 120 years. Founded in 1902, it was originally a thirty-bed hospital with a staff of only six nurses and four doctors. This presentation will touch on the origins and early history of this institution and will prominently feature Jewish Hospital’s archival collections held by the Becker Archives at Washington University School of Medicine. Registration will open soon on the Jewish SIG page.
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Sat., 13 June Hybrid: Clark Family Branch	10:00 a.m.	Monthly Meeting: Researching Railroad and River Transportation in the Later 19th and 20th Centuries	Nicholas Fry
Did you have an ancestor who worked on a railroad or riverboat after the Civil War? Learn what resources are available to help you find people who worked on the railroads and the inland waterways from 1865 to the end of the 20th century. Registration for this meeting will open soon on the Monthly Meeting page.
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Sat., 20 June Hybrid: StLGS Office	1:00 p.m.	German SIG Meeting: Emigration from the Prussian Province of Westphalia to the Midwest of the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century	Holger Strugholdt
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? Registration for this meeting will open soon on the German SIG page.

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