October Events

DeWitt County Genealogical Society

October 5th - DeWitt County Genealogical Society is participating in Community Day at Weldon Springs State Park, Clinton. Area non-profits have been invited to set up tables 11 am - 4 pm.  The public is asked to bring a picnic lunch, and there will be games and treats for the kids.

Our theme will be centered around gravestone cleaning and the upcoming bus tour of historically significant cemeteries in DeWitt County.

October 26 - Dewitt County Genealogical Society, in conjunction with DeWitt Clinton Chapter DAR, is hosting "Written in Stone," a bus tour of historical DeWitt County cemeteries. The cemetery visits will include

graves of Revolutionary War veterans and county founders, a segment about the supernatural, and a grave witching demonstration.  A running narrative throughout the tour will point out a ghost town, a tract of virgin forest and stories about the first settlers.  A box lunch and

tour of the Genealogy Room at Vespasian Warner Public Library will occur midway through the tour.  To reserve a seat, call (217) 935-5174, ext. 6.  Leave a name, phone number and how many seats you wish to reserve

(no children under 14, please).  You will receive a call back with the necessary details.  This is free and open to the general public to celebrate DeWitt County Genealogical Society's 50th year. 

North Suburban Genealogical Society

Location: by Zoom from Northbrook Library 

Reaping a Harvest with Land Records

Speaker: Larry W. Thomas

September 14, 2024, 1:00 pm

Have you been doing genealogy research for a long time but never looked at land records? There is often quite a lot of useful information in these records that goes overlooked. Everything from family members, family dynamics, occupations, and wealth. You can find legal separations, gifts of land to children and grandchildren, membership in associations, and many other interesting information. With this you might reap a harvest of information.

Click Here to Register. A Zoom Link will be sent to you from Northbrook Library.

Northeast Indiana JGS

SAVE THE DATE!   The 45th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is coming to Fort Wayne, Indiana, from Sunday, August 10 to Thursday, August 14, 2025, hosted by the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society and the IAJGS.

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