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Winner of the SCGS 2021 Genealogy Jamboree chosen
The Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society supported the Southern California Genealogy Society’s Jamboree 2021 this year. A complimentary guest pass to the event was given to one of our members as a result of this promotional effort. Debby Volpe won a
My Heritage SIG Summary
By Tom Wilheim My Heritage SIG MeetingNorthwest Suburban Genealogical SocietyFriday, September 18, 2020 Ken Seifert – ModeratorZoom Participants ≈ 25Future Meeting times Third Friday of each month @ 2:00 PM, CST My Heritage ContactKen had an email exchange with Daniel
Book Review: Kashubian Language in Canada, the USA and New Zealand
Book Review Kashubian Language in Canada, the USA and New Zealand By Stanislôw Frymark, 312 pages (156 pages in English/flip the book for Kashubian). 2020. Non-Fiction. The ancient language spoken by Kashubians, a true ethnic minority, with West Slavic background
FamilySearch Creates Community Groups
FamilySearch has created a new tool for researchers to get help with their family history research from their own homes. This new site, called Community Groups, is a site where people can ask questions upload documents and get help with
Try-it! Illinois
TRY-IT ILLINOIS October 1-November 30 Welcome to Try-It! Illinois 2020, the annual statewide database trial, sponsored by Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White and the Illinois State Library. Try-It! Illinois offers the staff and library users of the more than 5,000 ILLINET member
Check out our New Video Archives Page
Our “Paid” members now have one location where they can go and get links to all of our past meetings which have archived videos. You can locate the meeting by date or meeting topic. Click here for more information
German Surnames: Where They Come From and What They Mean
If you’ve been researching your German ancestors — especially in light of MyHeritage’s release of the new and exclusive North Rhine-Westphalia Death Index 1874- 1938 — you’ve probably been spending a lot of time with their surnames. Perhaps you’ve been
Perspectives on Boston’s 1764 Smallpox Epidemic
On 13 Apr 1764, John Adams sent his fiancée Abigail a story about being inoculated against smallpox in Boston. Through a cousin of Abigail’s, Dr. Cotton Tufts, Adams and his brother had received a referral to Dr. Nathaniel Perkins. At
What’s In A Name?
1794 Petition of Jacob Burkholder Do you have ancestors whose surnames were mangled in a variety of ways? Most of us do. Spelling wasn’t exact prior to 1900 and clerks often recorded names as they heard them. Often our ancestors