Saturday, May 30, 2015

Annual Cemetery Tour


Annual La Porte County Cemetery tour will be Tues. 9 June 2015 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Otis,IN.
Along with a history of the cemetery some of the family names to be presented will be Wozniak, Wroblewski, Janicki,
Kaizer (Kaiser), Nawrocki, Milcarek and Lewandowski.  Following the tour all are invited to join us at a restaurant, to be announced that evening,for food and sharing.

Directions from north:  U.S. Hwy 421 south to Snyder Rd. (next road past 50N) which is just before the railroad overpass.  Turn right on Snyder Road to Church St., at bottom of a hill.  Turn right on Church St. and follow it past the church to the cemetery.  Tour will begin at the crucifix in the first section.

Directions from south:  U.S. Hwy 421 north to Snyder Rd. which is just past the railroad overpass.  Turn left on Snyder Road to Church St., at bottom of a hill.  Turn right on Church St. and follow it past the church to the cemetery.  Tour will begin at the crucifix in the first section.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Patricia Harris, program chairman, with Barry J Veden



April 14, 2015 Meeting of the LPCIGS
Ninteen 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 PM.
Following the business portion of the meeting, Barry Veden, president of Chapter XXX, Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, spoke of the prelude and the strategic situation leading up to the last big German offensive effort in WWII. He helped us understand the tactical and environmental difficulties that faced the American soldiers opposing a desperate and larger German force. Barry’s father, Edward Veden, was on the front lines from the first day of that terrible battle. In 2004, Barry interviewed several of the veterans and wrote a book My Heroes:The Men of Northern Indiana Chapter XXX Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge.
 Next month, the society will tour St. Mary Cemetery in Otis, Indiana. The tour will begin at 6 PM on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.


More information about the society is available on our website, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/index.htm.  Also like us on Facebook at La Porte County Genealogical Society.