A bus trip to Fort Wayne, possible cemetery tours, and a new publications committee were on the agenda when the LaPorte County Genealogical Society held its monthly meeting Jan. 10, 2012.
Forms will be available in February to sign up for April’s all-day bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne. Bus travel will be $21 per person, and the Michigan City Public Library will co-sponsor the trip.
The recommendation to establish an Indexing, Abstracting and Publications Committee, plus a set of policies for the committee, will be voted on at the Feb. 14 meeting. Visit http://lpcgs.blogspot.com for more details.
Following the business meeting, members shared relics and discoveries including an old grave rubbing from Winchester Cathedral in England, a long-lost family photograph, a collection of vacation pictures of a trip to Sacajawea’s grave site in Wyoming, an ancestor’s records from an old U.S. veterans’ home, some “peacekeepers” for a south county tavern, and a striking photo of a former Michigan City police chief.
At the Feb. 14 meeting, Alan Zeller and Harold Henderson will try to make sense of the 1940 census, which will be released to the public on April 2. It will not be indexed by name. How can you find your ancestors — or yourself — in the census without an index? Come and find out!
The society meets at 7:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Swanson Activity Center for Older Adults, 910 State St., LaPorte, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
Four applications have already been requested for residency certificates. The deadline for submitting application is July 31.
For more information, visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/.
