April
14, 2015 Meeting of the LPCIGS
Twenty-two members and guests were present for the
regular monthly meeting of the La Porte County (IN) Genealogical Society at the
La Porte Parks Department Building at 250 Pine Lake Avenue in La Porte, Tuesday
evening, April 14. President Dorothy Palmer called the meeting to order at 7:10pm.
Following the business portion of the meeting, local
newspaper columnist Felicia Thomas presented “Scrapbooks and Stained Glass
Windows- Family History Clues in items left behind by our ancestors”. Thomas told
us of the treasured memories her family derived from the discovery of numerous
scrapbook pages preserved by her mother-in-law. Thomas also described the
intuitive connection she felt to a photograph of the stained –glass window of
an abandoned Irish workhouse – and the tangible connection which she discovered
to her family.
May 12, 2015, the Society will hear from Barry
Veden, president of Chapter 30, Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Barry will
talk about the veterans and help us remember the events of December, 1944 and
January 1945; and the heroes who endured unbelievable hardships.
More information about the society is available on
our website, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/index.htm.
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