Wednesday July 22 2015 - 2016 Planning Meeting

There will be no speaker at the July 22 meeting. The meeting will be dedicated to  planning for the 2015 - 2016 year. All members are welcomes to join us. We will be meeting at St Luke's Lutheran Church, 300 Carroll Street, Waukesha WI. The meeting will start immediately after the Board of Directors Meeting (about 6:30 pm).

More Irish Records Are Now Free Online

The digitized Irish Catholic Parish Registers, 1740s - 1880s are now free online. The National Library of Ireland has placed 390,000 images from more than 1,000 Catholic Perishes online. You will find them at registers.nlie.ie. The records are not indexed. You must browse to find the record you need. You still need to know where in Ireland the birth, or marriage occured to find your ancestor's church baptism or marriage record.

June 24, 2015 Meeting - Old World Wisconsin

Dan Freas will be presenting " Old World Wisconsin -  Past, Present and the Future" We will be meeting at the Goodwill Conference Center, 1400 Nike Drive, Waukesha. Parking is available in the lot directly to the west. Enter the lot from the second (Bus and Truck) entrance off Nike Drive. Individuals with DMV "handicapped" authorized plates or tags, park in the main lot. A short business meeting starts at 6:45 pm with the presentation starting at 7:00 pm.

Wednesday May 27 Meeting - Cemetery Research

Vicki Schnitzler will present " Lost in Your Cemetery Research? Find-A-Grave Can Help Unearth Your Answers". The meeting will be held at St Luke's Lutheran Church, 300 Carroll Street, Waukesha (next to the Waukesha Public Library). There will be a short business meeting at 6:45 pm with Vicki's presentation following at 7:00 pm.

Genealogy Tip - Uncle Joe?

Just because someone is referred to as uncle, aunt, grandpa, grandma or cousin in a vintage letter it does not mean the person is a true relative. It may have been used as a term of endearment or respect for a neighbor or friend of the family. That information is also important - but in a different way.

Wednesday April 22 Meeting - Preserving Family Heirlooms

Katharine Zignego will present on "Preserving Family Heirlooms". We will be meeting at St Luke's Lutheran Church (next to the Waukesha Public Library). There will be a short business meeting at 6:45 pm with the program starting at 7:00 pm .

Genealogy Tip - Offsite Backups

This week's weather should remind all of us to update our offsite backups. This could be in the Cloud, at your children's house,  or at your bank in a safe deposit box. For safety reasons, at least one backup copy should be stored offsite where it would not be damaged by a disaster in your home.