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Beginning Your Kentucky Research

Peggy Lauritzan
Monday, September 13, 2021
6:30PM
Members ONLY
Peggy Lauritzen has been an Accredited Genealogist for nearly twenty-five years, and has been involved in genealogy research her entire life. She is the author of several Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, an instructor at Ancestry Academy and Family Tree University, an instructor at several GRIP and SLIG courses, and a columnist for Reminisce Magazine. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy and became a Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists.
The best place to research your ancestors in Kentucky is not always in Kentucky! Let’s learn what is available to help discover our ancestors as they migrated to and through Kentucky.
This presentation concentrates on researching in this state which neighbors us just beyond the Ohio River. Its beginnings were in Virginia, and were part of its rich history before becoming a state of its own.


St. Louis County Library
National Archives Genealogy Series
Free Webinars
10 Rules for Accepting (or Rejecting)
Online Family Tree Hints
Online family tree hints can make it easy to build out your ancestor timelines and add people to your tree. Or they can fill your tree with the wrong relatives and incorrect information. Here are 10 rules for evaluating and using hints.
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While we are all living with the horrible pandemic, social distancing, and avoiding everything and everyone, it gets easy to forget about things we usually do. WVGS is hosting ZOOM meetings and webinars to keep our members up-to-date and current with genealogy programs as much as possible. We hope these efforts will help you decide to remain with WVGS and renew your membership for 2021. Please see the November Newsletter for instructions on how to operate and use ZOOM. Please contact Gary Jones if you have any problems downloading our members only ZOOM connection: webmaster@www.inwvgs.org
Your Membership Dues expire December 31 - we appreciate your support and input at all times. If you think you have already paid for 2021, please let me know. You can pay via postal mail or via PayPal. If you have a “recurring account” with PayPal, please change the payment amount to the current charges.
Add $2.00 to any membership paid online via PayPal to cover their fees.
_ Individual with e-mail account $15.00 / $17.00 if paid by PayPal
_ Individual by postal mail $25.00 (additional fees to cover postal mail fees)
__ Family e-mail $20.00 / $22.00 paid by PayPal (must reside at same address)
__ Family by postal mail $30.00 (must reside at same address)
If you want a business card dues payment receipt, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your payment. Otherwise, I will be sending out an email copy to you.
If you have any questions, please contact me:
Linda Gregory
genealogyrocks1n2n3@gmail
Please add WVGS Dues to the subject

Death Certificate
What are this three of four digit numbers under cause of death? (ICD)
International Classification of Diseases (ICD), in medicine, diagnostic tool that is used to classify and monitor causes of injury and death and that maintains information for health analyses, such as the study of mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) trends.
Find more information at :
http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/index.html 1900 to present



Link to New Gmail Tools with Genealogy Tasks and Correspondence
Check out the FREE webinars at;
http://www.genealogycenter.org/

Vigo County Public Library.
All meeting rooms have been cancelled through 2021.
The library will let us know more in the next few weeks as to new scheduling of the rooms.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Quote from Tribune Star Genealogy
"Many of us are home bound now and looking for something new to do. But to many people who more recently started their quest to discover their family history, something old can be something new. In 1997 the first national television series that dealt with family history and genealogy made its debut on PBS.
Entitled “Ancestors,” the series was hosted by Jim and Terry Willard, a husband and wife team of amateur genealogists who were “discovered” by the series producer at a genealogical conference. Alex Haley, the author of Roots, also contributed to the initial program planning. The series consists of twenty-three 30-minute episodes, each covering some aspect of genealogy. Every episode of this series can be viewed online for free through Brigham Young University by using this link"
: https://www.byutv.org/show/54f848ee-6d19-4502-9981-070cdbd1f1bf/ancestors.
Read the rest of the story at
https://www.tribstar.com/community/genealogy/article_5936cf17-ff12-5a87-a5eb-18ce4442eb57.html

KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM
Enroll or Renew for 2021

WVGS is participating in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Kroger will donor a percentage of purchases made by members and friends who register their Kroger Plus Shopper's Card. Follow these instructions to help WVGS earn extra money for future projects.
Register your card online at krogercommunityrewards.com.
Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with your organization after you sign up.
If a member does not yet have a Kroger Plus card, please let them know that they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
Click on Sign In/Register
Most participants are new online customers, so they must click on SIGN UP TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box.
Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite store, entering your email address and creating a password, agreeing to the terms and conditions
You will then get a message to check your email in box and click on the link within the body of the email.
Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.
Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus card number.
Update or confirm your information.
Enter NPO number (JH148) or Wabash Valley Genealogy Society, select organization from list and click on confirm.
To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the right side of your information page.
REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your group until after your member(s) register their card(s).
Special Note: WVGS's NPO number is JH148.

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