A few seats are still available on the April 18 bus to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, leaving Michigan City at 7 am and La Porte at 7:30, returning in time for supper. You can't drive there any cheaper or faster. The annual research trip is co-sponsored by the Michigan City Public Library and the La Porte County Genealogical Society. Details on the society web site, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.
At the April 10 meeting, the members discussed 1940 census indexing, the bus trip, and the program provided by Kathlyn Sonntag of the Lake Station Historical Society on the Bailly families and their homestead. The program was well illustrated with old photographs and out-of-print books. At the May 8 meeting, David Nowicki will speak on Polish and Latin documents.
Weather permitting, the society meets at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
April meeting
Have you visited the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Bailly Homestead and Chellberg Farm and wondered about the families who lived there? Come hear Kathlyn Sonntag talk about them at the La Porte County Genealogical Society's meeting 7 pm Tuesday, April 10, at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street.
Weather permitting, the society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
The society's annual bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne is Wednesday, April 18. Paid reservations are due by March 30 -- use the form on our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Weather permitting, the society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
The society's annual bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne is Wednesday, April 18. Paid reservations are due by March 30 -- use the form on our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
March meeting
Have you found something in your genealogical research that may not be related to your family, but is too good not to pass along? Then bring it to the meeting of the La Porte County Genealogical Society 7 pm Tuesday, March 13, at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street. Members and friends will share their favorite "lucky finds" of all sorts.
Weather permitting, the society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
The society's annual bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne is Wednesday, April 18. Paid reservations are due by March 30 -- use the form on our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Weather permitting, the society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
The society's annual bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne is Wednesday, April 18. Paid reservations are due by March 30 -- use the form on our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
February meeting recap
The La Porte County Genealogical Society met on February 14. Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson presented a two-part program on the 1940 census -- Harold on what information will be in it, and Alan on how he has been finding enumeration districts and addresses for where his relatives lived that year. This is crucial information since the census will not have a name index when it is first unveiled on April 2.
The society's annual all-day bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center will be April 21, and paid-up reservations are due by the end of March. Details are on the society web site and a form for signup is available at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf. It's amazing how much more you can get done when you don't have to drive the four-hour round trip! The bus will hold 42 people, and eleven have signed up so far. All books there are in open stacks and advice is available on the bus if it will be your first time visiting. This is one of the best genealogy libraries in the country.
The society will meet next on March 13, when the program will be members' discoveries of serendipity or trivia, not necessarily related to their own families, especially in local newspapers.
The society meets at 7:15 pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
It's not too late to apply for La Porte County residency certificates; the deadline for submitting a documented application is July 31. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/ has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
The society's annual all-day bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center will be April 21, and paid-up reservations are due by the end of March. Details are on the society web site and a form for signup is available at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf. It's amazing how much more you can get done when you don't have to drive the four-hour round trip! The bus will hold 42 people, and eleven have signed up so far. All books there are in open stacks and advice is available on the bus if it will be your first time visiting. This is one of the best genealogy libraries in the country.
The society will meet next on March 13, when the program will be members' discoveries of serendipity or trivia, not necessarily related to their own families, especially in local newspapers.
The society meets at 7:15 pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
It's not too late to apply for La Porte County residency certificates; the deadline for submitting a documented application is July 31. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Photo added to Genealogist of the Year post
We have at last added a photograph to the December 14 post on Fern Eddy Schultz's being selected as the society's second Genealogist of the Year. And here it is as well!
Left: Fern Eddy Schultz. Right: Dorothy Palmer.
Monday, January 23, 2012
1940 census meeting February 14
Seventy-two years and one day after the 1940 US census was taken, its handwritten house-by-house returns will be made public on line April 2, 2012.
What questions were asked -- and answered -- by the 132 million Americans then living?
How can today's researchers find their families when there is no name index yet?
The La Porte County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 pm Tuesday, February 14, weather permitting, at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street. Following a short business meeting, Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson will answer these questions and more.
The society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/ has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
What questions were asked -- and answered -- by the 132 million Americans then living?
How can today's researchers find their families when there is no name index yet?
The La Porte County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 pm Tuesday, February 14, weather permitting, at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street. Following a short business meeting, Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson will answer these questions and more.
The society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.
It's not too early to apply for one or more residency certificates for 2012. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
Friday, January 13, 2012
January meeting recap
A bus trip to Fort Wayne, possible cemetery tours, and a new publications committee were on the agenda when the La Porte County, Indiana, Genealogical Society held its monthly meeting January 10th. Forms will be available in February to sign up for April's all-day bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Bus travel will be $21 per person, and the Michigan City Public Library will co-sponsor the trip.
The recommendation to establish an Indexing, Abstracting, and Publications Committee, plus a set of policies for the committee, will be voted on at the next meeting in February. See the previous post on this blog for the details.
Following the business meeting, members shared relics and discoveries including an old grave rubbing from Winchester Cathedral in England, a long-lost family photograph, a collection of vacation pictures of a trip to Sacajawea's grave site in Wyoming, an ancestor's records from an old US veterans' home, some "peacekeepers" for a south county tavern, and a striking photo of a former Michigan City police chief.
Next month, on February 14, Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson will try to make sense of the 1940 census, which will be released to the public on 2 April. It will not be indexed by name. How can you find your ancestors -- or yourself! -- in the census without an index? Come and find out!
The society meets at 7:15 pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
Four applications have already been requested for residency certificates. The deadline for submitting application is July 31, so it's not too early to get started. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/ has information for those who believe they have La Porte County ancestors (and can prove it!). There's information on how to apply for First Families of La Porte (before December 1840), Pioneer Families (1841-1860), Settler Families (1861-1880), and Civil War Families (1861-1865).
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
The recommendation to establish an Indexing, Abstracting, and Publications Committee, plus a set of policies for the committee, will be voted on at the next meeting in February. See the previous post on this blog for the details.
Following the business meeting, members shared relics and discoveries including an old grave rubbing from Winchester Cathedral in England, a long-lost family photograph, a collection of vacation pictures of a trip to Sacajawea's grave site in Wyoming, an ancestor's records from an old US veterans' home, some "peacekeepers" for a south county tavern, and a striking photo of a former Michigan City police chief.
Next month, on February 14, Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson will try to make sense of the 1940 census, which will be released to the public on 2 April. It will not be indexed by name. How can you find your ancestors -- or yourself! -- in the census without an index? Come and find out!
The society meets at 7:15 pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State Street, La Porte, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
Four applications have already been requested for residency certificates. The deadline for submitting application is July 31, so it's not too early to get started. Our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.
You can also read or search back issues of the society's newsletter, December 2005 through December 2009, including genealogical and historical information from members' research and abstracting work in local records, on our blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com.
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