La Porte County Residency Certificates

Our September meeting is the occasion of the awarding of La Porte County(IN) residency certificates.
The certificates are in four classifications:
         First Families - for proven ancestors before December 31, 1840
         Pioneer Families - Residents between 1841 and 1860
         Settler Families - Residents between 1860 and 1880
         Civil War Families - For ancestors who served from 1861 to April 1865, with residence requirements.

The  annual meeting is always interesting. Each of these figures from the past have a personal meaning to the recipients, and they will share with the members and guests.

SeekingMichigan.org is Moving!

Seeking Michigan

Dick Eastman tells us that the abundant information available at this site will be at a new web address, beginning September 1, 2019. 

An announcement at seekingmichigan.org/look/2019/07/29/seekingmichigan-org-is-moving  gives the details. The new address will be Michiganology.org.

Some of the features will not be moving, so check out the announcement yourself.

 Another site which could interest many of us is featured in the Family Tree Magazine's annual  list of the 101 Best Websites.

An ongoing project at the University of California is making available digitized images of California newspapers. It is worth the time to become familiar with this resource. Go to cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc .