We
Help People Find Their Family History
Welcome to
the Minnesota Genealogical Society (MGS), Minnesota’s largest and most comprehensive
family history research organization. Whether you have Minnesota connections or
not, we invite you to join us in pursuit of your family history. We have classes
at all levels, from beginners to experts, an educational journal, and fun social
events. Together with our nationality and ethnic affiliates, we offer a 30,000-volume
library with North American and European genealogy resources. |
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The
MGS Library and Research Center
is located at
1185 Concord St. N. Suite
218,
South St. Paul, MN 55075-1150 Hours:
Tuesday
6pm - 9pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm & 6pm - 9pm
Saturday
10am - 4pm | 
Michael
Clark Family History
Writing Award Competition For
Competition Rules, click
here |
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MGS
is a participating Society in the 1940 U.S. Census project, which will put the
1940 U.S. Census online, free for use by all. The indexing will be done via the
internet. For more
information, click here.
If
you have questions, please e-mail Terry
or Kathy. |
Central
and Eastern European Genealogy Conference
The
Minnesota Genealogical Society,
The Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International,
The Germanic Genealogy Society,
The Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota,
The Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, and
The Romanian Interest Group
would
like to announce their spring conference to be held April 27-28, 2012
at Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
featuring John Philip Colletta.
Breakout
sessions, exhibits, and more! Registration will open in February.
See Events
tab for more information.
MGS
Winter/Spring Classes
March
3
- Zotero - The Internet Researcher's Swiss Army Knife,
10:00 - 11:30, MGS
Tom Rice, CGSM
This
class will show you how to use Zotero to make your Internet genealogy research
more efficient
10
- Genealogy Topics at MHS, 10:00 - 12:30, MHS
Alice
Eichholz, Ph.D., CGSM
Family History Research
Focus on Women,
This workshop uses women as the focus for research-Wives
for Husbands, Fathers for Daughters, and the role women's lives as "social
glue" can play in helping to solve challenging research problems
13
- Members Morning on Tuesday Night!, 6:30 - 8:30, MGS
17
- Beyond Obits: Finding Family History in Newspapers,
10:30 - 12:00 , MGS
J. H. Fonkert, CGSM
This
class will show you how to find newspapers in libraries and online, and give you
tips for using them to enrich personal family histories.
17
- Genealogy 101, 1:00 - 4:00, MGS
In
this five-session course (March 17, 24, 31, and April 14 and 21) you will learn
five steps for beginning (and continuing) your family history research.
Step
1: Write Down and Organize What You Know
Learn to recognize and gather
information from personal knowledge, family members, and genealogical sources
you find at home.
24
- Genealogy 101, 1:00 - 4:00, MGS
Lois
Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D., John Schade, David Suddarth
Step 2: Decide
What You Want to Learn
This session shows how to focus research efforts
by selecting an achievable research objective and creating a research plan.
31
- Genealogy 101, 1:00 - 4:00, MGS
Lois
Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D., John Schade, David Suddarth
Step 3: Locate
a Useful Source
April
14
- Genealogy 101, 1:00 - 4:00, MGS
Lois
Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D., John Schade, David Suddarth
Step 4: Learn
from the Source
Learn how to take useful notes and capture the source
information you need.
17
- Publishing Your Family History, 6:00 - 8:00, MGS
Three-part
course continues April 24, May 1
Bergetta F. Monroe
This three-part
class (six hours total) shows you how to publish an attractive and readable family
history book.
21
- Genealogy Topics at MHS, 10:00 - 12:30, MHS
Lois
Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D.
Federal and State Census Records
This
lecture tours you through the federal census from 1790 to 1930, tells you where
to find copies, and shows you how to get the most out of them.
Introducing
the 1940 Census
Learn what's in the 1940 census.
21
- Genealogy 101, 1:00 - 4:00, MGS
Lois
Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D., John Schade, David Suddarth
Step 5: Use
What You Learned
Learn how to correlate evidence from new records using
timelines and spreadsheets and identify next steps for your research.
May
12
- Planning a Genealogy Trip, 10:00 - 11:00, MGS
Cathi
Weber
Learn tips and tricks make your research trip easy and enjoyable
as well as productive!
19
- Genealogy Topics at MHS, 10:00 - 12:30, MHS
J.
H. Fonkert, CGSM
Using Military and Pension Records to Research Your
Civil War-Era Ancestor
Learn how to locate Civil War military records
and pension files and see their use demonstrated in a real-life case study.
Using
Homestead Records and Other Public Land Records for Family History
Learn
how to locate records in state and national archives and use them to tell the
story of your ancestors' westward migration.
19
- Members Morning, 9:30-12:30, MGS
Join
the MGS Beginners Group, Writers Group, and Research Study Group!
For
more information on Classes and Speakers'
Bios, go to Classes tab.
