All posts by Kathy Kirkpatrick

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Board Meeting

I propose a board meeting on 7 August. Will board members please let me know if this doesn’t fit their schedules? Also, this is NOT a closed meeting. We especially want to invite folks interested in becoming officers and committee heads since elections will be held in the Fall.

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Research Assistance Needed

I received a request as follows:

I am looking to find some information about my 19th century great great grandparents in Kishinev. I believe there might be info. in the Mormon library. I live in Israel.and we have no Mormon libraries here, so I’m looking for someone in Utah who could help me.

If you can help, please let me know and I will forward you his contact information.

Thanks!

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Call to Meeting, 15 May 2023, 7 pm Mountain time

Janette Silverman will speak on “In the Aftermath”. After World War II, refugees all over Europe lived in Displaced Persons Camps, sometimes for years. Some who wanted to leave Europe were permitted to relocate fairly quickly, for many, the journey away from continental Europe was arduous. We will discuss how to find information about refugees arriving in the United States and track them into records to find out what happened to them during the war. Some of the documentation will reveal their parents’ names & birthplaces. As an example of what can be found, we’ll look at one specific family’s journey. Although the family we will look at ultimately arrived in the U.S., their journey could have taken them anywhere.

Log in at: https://ancestry.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlduyvpjwpH90tbOP9J5JmuN5wlp4FXitJ

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Call to Meeting

Come join us on 17 April for a Roundtable discussion. Bring your latest project to share. Or bring your latest problem to get advice from the rest of our attendees. Zoom link will be posted shortly. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Call to Meeting

On 16 January 2023 at 7 pm (Mountain Time), our own Todd Knowles will speak to us on Jews of the Caribbean.

W. Todd Knowles is a deputy chief genealogical officer at FamilySearch, where he has worked for 22 years. His own journey in family history began by searching for his great-grandfather, a Polish Jew. From those early beginnings, the Knowles Collection was created. This collection now houses the genealogical records of 1.5 million Jews.

Zoom link to follow.