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News from CAGGNI, MCIGS and ISGS preview!

MSIGS is back in person! Please join us for our May Meeting at MCC. As the weather warms up, we've returned to in-person meetings at the McHenry County College. Our next meeting takes place on Thursday, May 9th at 7pm. Our meetings take place in room C104. We are in the room 30 minutes prior to allow us to mingle and share recent genealogy stories. We hope to see you there! The latest Newsletter is posted:   MSIGS Newsletter CAGGNI upcoming program on May 18 CAGGNI’s very own John Stryker will be our speaker on May 18 from 10:30 am – 12:15 pm, at the Mount Prospect Public Library, 10 S. Emerson, Mount Prospect, IL, and via Zoom. His topic will be “What's New in Technology: 2024.” John keeps up with the technology news and will bring word of the best in hardware, gadgetry, applications, and websites, all with an eye on how it can best be used to pursue our genealogical hobby. He is retired from being distinguished professor and chair of Computer Technologies and Information Syst...

Visiting IRAD at Western Illinois University

Find PCGS newsletter here:  PDGS April . Some cool stuff happening on the Brimfield Oral History  Project. While traveling to Macomb, Illinois may be a bit of road trip, there are good reasons to travel this Spring. Visit IRAD at Western Illinois University. For your reference, start with the indexes listed below: A complete listing of the holdings of all the depositories can be accessed through the State Archives Web site. Online indexes of selected records at WIU include: Adams County Almshouse Registers Index (1873 - 1898) Brown County Almshouse Registers Index (1882 - 1963) Fulton County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1825 - 1876) McDonough County Guardian's Case Files Index (1838-1933) McDonough County Probate Case Files Index (1833-1925) Mercer County Almshouse Register Index (1859 - 1948) Peoria County Probate Case Files Index (1825 - 1887) Rock Island Probate Case Files Index (1834 - 1899) Stark County Almshouse Register Index (1868 - 1941) Not ready to travel yet? Ch...