Welcome to the website for the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society! We are glad you are here. We are an active society that is committed to preserving the history of Lake County and Porter County in Indiana. We have some great resources for you in your research. Many dedicated volunteers have made these available to you. If you are local, we encourage you to attend one of our monthly meetings. You can contact us directly here.
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WEB SITE moving
The web site has been moved to a new (permanent) location. There will be testing and debugging while it is checked out. Use the site at your own risk. After May 3, please report any detected problems to the webmaster.
SOCIETY MEETINGS
The society meets each month in January-November from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in either the Valparaiso Branch of the Porter County Public Library or the Crown Point Library. Check the schedule below for the location. There is no fee to attend the regular monthly meetings.
UPCOMING SOCIETY MEETINGS
Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Crown Point Community Library:
Crown Point Public Library, 122 N. Main Street, Crown Point, IN
Harold Henderson, professional researcher at midwestroots.net, local and national speaker, will present "Welcome to the Other Midwestern Archives". Been to Fort Wayne, the Newberry, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society? Still need more? We'll discuss regional, religious, and county level repositories in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin that often fly under the radar.
Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 10:00a.m.
Valparaiso Public Library at 105 Jefferson Street, Valparaiso, IN
Margo L. Smith, PhD. the Slovak representative for CSAGSI, will present on Slovak family history research: use of parish records, application of tax records (1715, 1720, 1828, and 1770s), nobility investigations, reconstructing one's ancestral village, and pre-1900 Slovak social organization. She will be available after meeting to help with individual research, answer questions, and translate Latin records.
PREVIOUS SOCIETY MEETINGS
Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Valparaiso Public Library at 105 Jefferson Street, Valparaiso, IN
KayLynn Mathews, former family history center director, taught us about the new and revised FamilySearch.org website.
We had a great meeting on how to use FamilySearch. However there were many who wanted more in depth instruction on certain features to be presented in our upcoming summer meetings. Please go to the Discussions page and add your suggestions to the FamilySearch topic so we can address them
Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Crown Point Public Library
Linda Herrick-Swisher on "Using directories in your family history research".
Saturday, March 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.
Valparaiso Public Library
Jane Haldeman, president of Illinois Genealogy Society and president of Fox Valley Genealogy Society, presented "Uncluttering your Family History Records: What Do I Do With the Data I Find?" She showed how to extract information and put it into a spreadsheet.
Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Crown Point Public library at 122 N. Main Street, Crown Point, IN
Sally Phillips spoke on the topic "Using timelines in your genealogy research".
Saturday, January 19, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.
Valparaiso Branch of the Porter County Public Library
This was our annual sharing meeting. Problems, solutions and stories were shared along with several new scanning or photo copying devices.
There was no meeting in December due to the holidays.
Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 10 a.m.
Valparaiso Branch of the Porter County Public Library
Michael Lacopo of roots4u.com returned with the next presentation of the German genealogy research series. he spoke on "Using German Church Records."
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Free Membership
If you sign up for Free Membership, it will last for 1 year. After 1 year your free membership will be terminated.
March 2013 TWIGS
The March 2013 issue of the TWIGS Newsletter is now available for reading online, or downloading to your computer - for paid members only.
Click the above TWIGS NEWSLETTER button to access any or all of the TWIGS newsletters. You must be logged in as a paid member.
Second Vice President Needed
We are looking for someone to fill the office of Second Vice President for 2012-2013. Please consider joining a wonderful group of officers and sharing your time and interest in our organization and in leading NWIGS to a bright future. If you are interested in this position or for more information, please contact President Marlene Poster (at marlene.polster@nwigs.org) or any other board member.
Lake and Porter Counties
NWIGS is a non-profit organization whose objectives are to collect, preserve and disseminate knowledge and information with reference to genealogy, history, biography and heraldry; to promote and sustain interest in the study of these fields; to pool interest and aid individual members of the Society; and to issue publications relating to genealogy.