Genealogical Society of Monroe County, MI 45th Annual Seminar
Registration form at: https://gsmcmi.org/ 2025 seminar
Cost is $30 if you register before April 26, 2025
$40 for late registrations
Presenters: Adam Oster and Jeff Mason
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Schedule: 8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Welcome (coffee and donuts)
9:00 am – 10:00 am Yearbooks, Alumni Lists, and Other School Related Records
These records can be rich in details about the people in your family tree. Learn to uncover details about both your family members and the communities they lived in. Explore the ways of finding these valuable resources both in-print and online.
10:30 am – 11:30 am Michigan County Poor Farms
Long before the advent of modern social welfare, county governments in Michigan maintained poorhouses or poor farms. Explore the early history of these facilities in their attempts to become both self-sustaining entities and refuges for a county’s poor, elderly and destitute.
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch (the Big Jerrowski food truck will be on-site)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breaking Down Brick Walls & Reviving Dead Ends
This lecture will include lists of records and general pathways and strategies for locating hard to find ancestors. There is also a case study that utilizes these records and employs the general strategies. There will be some Q&A time for me to field questions from the audience.
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Death & Taxes - 2 Things You Cannot Afford to Miss - A Genealogical Perspective
This course focuses on records that are normally found at a county courthouse, with heavy emphasis on land records, tax records, and will and estate records.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2889914-0
