It’s cold, it’s snowing, and the Shocks are playing this afternoon. The library is closed today.
See you Tuesday!
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Please Renew Your Membership!
Please renew your membership by April 1st! There will be a form in the March Alert.
Remember — your membership fee helps maintain our library, publish the Register and this website, and support our projects, like the White Chapel cemetery documentation project. Please help keep MHGS going strong!
Watch the Rootstech 2015 Presentations Online!
RootsTech 2015 starts tomorrow! Can’t be in Salt Lake City by 8am? No problem! They broadcast a full day of presentations, including the glitzy keynote presenters (this year including Donny Osmond and Laura Bush), ONLINE for FREE.
Just go to the RootsTech website. Starting tomorrow, the main page will have the streaming video. Today, you can find the presentation schedule here.
If there’s interest, we’ll set up the projector at the library on Saturday, so come watch on the big screen with us.
Can’t clear your schedule for 3 full days? The presentations will be on the RootsTech website for several weeks after the conference.
New Books in the Library (January 2015)
Thanks to a couple of generous donations, we have lots of new books in the library, including a lot of Kansas yearbooks and several books on the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. They’re all on the shelves, so come on down!
Continue reading New Books in the Library (January 2015)
Annual Meeting March 28
The MHGS Annual Meeting will be March 28 at 11am at the library. We will be voting on a new mission statement and electing new members of the Board of Directors. There may be snacks. If you are a society member, please attend!
We’re still finalizing the wording of the mission statement. If you have thoughts, please email Elaine at president@mhgswichita.org. We’ll distribute a proposed statement well before the meeting.
Did You See Ann and MHGS in the Eagle?
Ann Boll, past MHGS President, current editor of the Register, and all around great MHGS volunteer was featured in the Wichita Eagle’s volunteer spotlight series this week! Do you recognize our library?
You Should Be Reading the Great Plains Quarterly!
Recently, while looking for something else (isn’t that always the way?), I discovered the Great Plains Quarterly. This is an academic journal published by the University of Nebraska, and it focuses on the history and culture of the great plains states! Imagine — a whole journal focused on “flyover country!”
There are straight historical articles (a couple by Jay Price, of WSU) and other articles that bring in art, sociology, psychology, literature, and even movie criticism. There are also a lot of book reviews, which can help you discover books you didn’t know you needed to read. Topics range from Coronado to the Lebanese in Wichita to the naming of Nicodemus.
Many of the issues are available online. They seem to have gone through at least three different online publishing schemes, so although the official website is at http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/GPQ/gpq.shtml I would recommend using our library catalog, where I’ve created links to as many issues as I can find (the most recent appear to be behind a fire wall.)
Read it! And if there are any other journals out there I should know about, please email me at library@mhgswichita.org.
Genealogy Class at WSU Starts in February
MHGS member (and WSU librarian) Robyn Tiemeyer is teaching her Starting the Search for your Family History class again this semester through WSU’s Continuing Education program. The class is on two Saturdays, February 28 and March 7, from 10:30 to noon. The cost is $51.
This looks like a great option for beginners and those who have been away from genealogy from a while and need a refresher on current resources and techniques.
Find out more on the WSU Continuing Education page.
Library Closed Saturday, Jan 3
The forecast is for ice and snow, so we’re not going to open the library on Saturday.
Stay home and stay warm!
Renew Your Membership!
Please renew your membership by April 1st! There will be a form in the February Alert.
Remember — your membership fee helps maintain our library, publish the Register and this website, and support our projects, like the White Chapel cemetery documentation project. Please help keep MHGS going strong!