Offered by the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland

Learn how to find your ancestors in Nordic records.  

Go to the Salt Lake Family History Library this week without leaving home!

Join on-line with patrons attending the Family History Library week of genealogy topics on Nordic research.

The Schedule is attached to download below for easy printing and webinar access.

Please join us for a presentation, "Look for the Woman" prepared by Martha Grenzeback and presented by Judi Cook.  Includes resources on finding new information about our elusive female ancestors.  Claudia Severin, new LLCGS member, is writing a historically based fictional account about four of her female ancestors.  She will discuss research,  methodologies and read a short excerpt for us.

This session is free and open to the public. All visitors are welcome.

 

 

No Meeting - Post Thanksgiving

 

No Meeting - Holidays

No Meeting - Holidays

No Meeting 

Please join us in learning more about land/deed records for non public domain states.  What are metes and bounds, what is the history of this method, how is the boundary created with this measuring system?  Gene Thomsen, Deputy State Surveyor, will answer these questions for us and demonstrate the method with some of his antique tools of the trade.  If you have an old deed record based on rods, chains, poles, varas, etc, please bring it to the session.  We will have some software available to create the deed plot of the described land.  

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Linda Conroy, VP of Membership, will be reviewing our society’s website and explore all it has to offer. She will also be reviewing the society’s social media sites, Facebook and Pinterest, to show all the helpful information available. Please make sure you have your username and password for the LLCGS website member sign in. If you don't have that information, please make sure you bring access to your current email account (including the username and password) so you can reset your information.

Please join us in learning more about land/deed records associated with the General Land Office(GLO) site.  Jonathan Fairchild, Historian at the Homestewad National Monument of America, will demonstrate the ins and outs of the website.  It is not just homestead records, but many other types of information is available on this site associated with public domain states and the disposal of Federal lands to individuals and various entities. 

 

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join us for our February monthly business meeting, approximately 20 minutes.  The business meeting will be followed by a live webinar presented by Cari Taplin, entitled "From Deeds to Dirt: Case Studies in Analyzing Research with Maps."  Our ancestors existed in a time and a place.  Maps are one way to give the names and dates in our genealogical research more life, context, and excitement.  Where did they live?  What would they have seen?  How did they get around?  Cari will examine various ways researchers can use maps to traqce their ancestors and their research.  Some of the topics will cover:  

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join us in learning more about using newspapers in our genealogy research.  Members, Corinne Jacox and Pat Mehmken, will discuss newspaper offerings, methodologies and demonstrate how newspapers have furthered their family history story. 

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

Please join us as Martha Grenzeback, Genealogy and Local History Librarian for OPL, ties together all we have learned this month about using newspapers in family history research.  Martha has a passion for genealogy and is an engaging speaker about all things genalogy!

 

Yesterday's News: Researching Family History in Old Newspapers - Think beyond just obituaries!  Historical newspapers are full of the stories that bring your ancestors to life.  Learn how and where to find those gems, and what they can contribute to your family history research.

 

This event is free and open to the public.  Visitors welcome!