November 2, 2019 10:00 am – 12:00 pm North Kansas City Library, 2251 Howell St., NKC, MO 64116 Researching Your WWII Veteran Presented by Nichole Schlagel from Midcontient Public Library Piece together your WWII veteran’s military experience using web resources, Midwest Genealogy Center resources, and outside sources. Learn what records still exist and how to locate…
December 4, 2021 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Valor Awards for WWI VeteransPresented by Dr. Timothy Westcott A Valor Medals Review Project and Task Force made up of researchers and historians is performing a systematic investigation of World War I American soldiers, who may have been overlooked for high-valor awards at the…
January 8, 2022 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually (subject to change) Research and Writing the Stories of WWII FallenPresented by Don Milne More than 400,000 Americans lost their lives in World War II. All of them had stories worth saving and sharing. The STAR Corps (Story-Telling And Research volunteers) is researching and…
March 5, 2022 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually (subject to change) The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence From Bad Presented by Judy G. Russell, JD The “best evidence” rule in law prefers that documents presented to a court be the original rather than a copy. A copy won’t even be admitted if…
April 10, 2021 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Gathering the Ghosts:Using Your Family Research Skills to Locate Contemporaries byMary Celeste When planning a milestone event and gathering a unrelated people who have been out of contact or are strangers, it’s hard to know where to begin.Today’s mobile society and stricter privacy laws…
March 6, 2021 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Think You Know the Census? Think Again! by Peggy Jude The US Census is a starting place for many family history researchers. We find our family, record their information, and move on. But did you really get everything out of the census? What else…
June 5, 2021 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Navigating the Records from the War of 1812 by Brian Rhinehart Migration to the Midwest was supercharged by veterans of the War of 1812 cashing into their bounties. From bounty land to pensions, there is no shortage of genealogical records for soldiers in the…
May 1, 2021 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Why DNA? Determine kinshipNon-paternal eventAdoption By Kathleen Brandt Kathleen Brandt will use case studies to discuss how DNA results and matches are used as a genealogical tool.
August 29, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Will Be Held Virtually Stump the Panel Questions, brick walls and quandaries submitted by NGS members will be posed to our panel in an interactive meeting to kick off the 2020-2021 year. Our panelists are: President Elna Cox, who leads an interest group on the use of DNA…
May 2, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm VIA WEBINAR You can participate in this webinar by phone, computer, tablet, or smartphone. You must pre-register to obtain the access instructions to join the meeting. Please emailkbnewnotions@gmail.comfor the pre-registration site address if you did not receive it by email. When They Came to America, Where Did They…
