Presented by Grace Wilfong.

New people to genealogy or even people who have done it for a while can benefit from the mistakes I and others have made or things that would have made our genealogy research and tree better.  Some of these things weren’t available when we started but many are accumulated hints based on years of doing genealogy and helping others do theirs.  Many of these hints will help you be more organized and will save you time in the long-run. 

Planning for a panel discussion is underway.

Presented by Abigail Eynon. And, yes, it's St. Patrick's Day.

Abigail will provide a tale of the immigration of Irish Catholic nationals into what would become the State of Michigan. She will describe the timing of arrivals of these Irish pioneers; Why they came to Michigan [push]; What’s land got to do with it [pull]; The very early critical mass in the North fields of Ann Arbor; the hard evidence our Irish pioneers left behind at Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery; and What a genealogist can find out about strangers by starting with cemetery stones: the life lived by a few of those Irish Pioneers.  

Presented by Dan Fantore.

Our people were farmers recognizes that most family historians find that their ancestors were farmers.  The presentation will talk about the pervasiveness of farming, sources for farming history including, Deeds, Plat maps, the Agricultural schedule of the US Census, the 1938 WPA Rural Inventory, and Centennial Farms.

End-of-season fun at the Farmington Genealogical Society.