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Website of the Week and Upcoming Events!



This week's featured website is the Aurora Public Library's Genealogy & Local History page! This is a must-visit website for any genealogist with family connections to Aurora, the second-largest city in Illinois. Some features include:
  • Make appointments to visit the Local History Room at the Santori Main Campus in downtown Aurora
  • Several helpful and searchable indexes, including a guide to the Aurora address conversion in the 1920s, the Beacon News obituary index and other cemetery/burial indexes, and marriage indexes, including a partial list of marriages at Saint Nicholas Church
  • Listings of local cemeteries and genealogical societies, and tons of links to genealogy websites
  • Resources for African American and LGBTQ+ research
  • A downloadable brochure of the Library's onsite collections in the Local History Room
  • Links to a fantastic virtual program series available on YouTube for FREE, that covers the history of Aurora's cemeteries, famous Aurorans, the city during the Influenza of 1918, and much more!
  • An introduction to Aurora house histories and how to find more information to research your home's history!

Upcoming Genealogy Events


The Ulster Historical Foundation is back with a new Irish Family History Lecture Tour! The group has three dates in the Chicago area,  click below for more details and find out how to register:

CAGGNI will host its next meeting on Saturday March 19th. Alvin Holtzman will present, "Essential Resources for Jewish and Eastern European Genealogy." CLICK HERE for more info and to register!



The next KCGS meeting will be held via Zoom on Tuesday March 24th, at 7pm. This will be a crowd-sourced meeting, "Banging Your head Against A Wall? Brick Wall Group Analysis!" Contact Laura at kcgsprogramsmarketing@gmail.com for the meeting link!




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