At our June training session, Hillary Schau will be offering Part 2 of her presentation on the features of RootsMagic 8 software, along with demonstrations on how to do the most common tasks of logging your family history and research. … Continue reading →

At our September training session, Dave Lapierre will host another session of “Tech Talk with Dave.” Dave will field and (hopefully) answer your technology questions. Dave will spend some time teaching us useful Zoom techniques, including how to mute and … Continue reading →

Remember the old days when members could chat about their genealogy research interests, talk about discoveries and brick walls, meet up with old friends, and make new friends at meetings? Well, a worldwide pandemic upended all of that. We miss … Continue reading →

We’ve all had research discoveries that surprised and even shocked us. Have you discovered that an ancestor was murdered or was involved in a murder? An ancestor who was a horse thief, robbed a bank, or participated in a rebellion … Continue reading →

Have you started (or maybe finished) scanning all the photos in those albums, boxes, and file folders? Are there now dozens, hundreds, or thousands of photos on your computer in different folders? Have you simply transformed your physical photo mess … Continue reading →

We’re very happy that Howard Vincent Kurtz will be joining us again at our March 21st training session for another presentation of “Our Ancestors’ Clothing”! If you have participated in Professor Kurtz’s previous visits to WMGS, you’ll know what a … Continue reading →

At our April 18th training session, Ed Strickland will present part one of a two-session course on paleography. The one-hour paleography lecture will be followed by a practice workshop at our May 16th training session. After only a little research, … Continue reading →