Speaking Alert

Tomorrow night I'll be talking (briefly) at the La Porte County Genealogical Society on how to find your way around the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Start by looking at all six catalogs and finding aids . . .

I posted about other speaking engagements in 2013 here.

La Porte County, Indiana resource

Local genealogical society newsletters often have extracts and abstracts of local records that aren't found anywhere else. But they are rarely indexed except in PERSI, which is valuable but far from an every-name index and even farther from an every-word index.

Thanks to then editor Donna Nelson's keeping them on CD in word files, the La Porte County (Indiana) Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter now has sixteen back issues posted on the society blog -- December 2005 through December 2009, minus September 2006 -- which are every-word searchable. Because they're in a single blog post, one search does it all. (I'm the current secretary, and I made the post, defects and all.) If you have research targets in this part of the world, you might find a lead on someone here.

La Porte County (IN) Genealogical Society has a blog

For those with northwest Indiana interests, my home genealogical society in La Porte County has a new blog, mainly for announcements and accounts of meetings and other activities. Since I'm the secretary I get to make most of the posts, but I will not normally be duplicating posts between this personal blog and that official one. (OK, just this once: If you're in the area, we have an interesting program lined up for February 9.)

Weekend Warriors -- My Appearances

I'll be giving an introduction to the variety of genealogy blogs (of all things) at the monthly meeting of the La Porte County [Indiana] Genealogical Society, 910 State Street, 7:15 pm Tuesday, 10 March 2009. (Yes, it's mostly ready to go, but it's never too late to offer advice in the comments.)