Please Note that the date is set for the 2nd Saturday (9/12/2026) because the first Saturday is Labor Day weekend.

Researching Scottish Ancestors: Civil and Parish Records in Scotland presented by Rhonda McClure

Researching civil registrations and church records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths is often the first thing that family historians do when they learn they have ancestry in Scotland.

 In this lecture, our expert reviews what information is provided in each record type and how to locate and access these resources.

Doors Open at 12:30 p.m. for social time

Program/meeting starts at 1:00 p.m. promptly

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The handout is  HERE. Download and print your own copy.

Speaker: Donna Potter Phillips

Nearly two million Americans today claim some Welsh ancestry..... are you among them?

Donna's program will tweak your Welsh beak to learn about the history, culture and research resources for Cymru descendants. (That's the ancient name for Wales.)

Download Handouts below! There are 2 separate files (Part 1 and Part 2)

Speaker: Richard Scheuerman

’WILL BE GLAD TO MEET’—The Germans from Russia-CIS Archives & Genealogical Records Project” 

• explores the origins of a remarkable historical records research project that took place in the wake of the Cold War. The effort, which began in 1990 and has continued in various forms ever since, involved building relationships of trust between members of the US-based American Historical Society of Germans from Russia and historians and archivists in the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation and Ukraine. 
• By 1994 the work had yielded approximately 10,000 pages of documents related to Germans from Russia family records, settlement, colonial development, and emigration to North and South America.