Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society

Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society updated their business hours.

Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society updated their website address.

Our new website is live! We are now nwmogenealogy.org. We hope you will take a look and explore its features. If you are a member of the society, we hope you will login. Your feedback is welcome. The new website is in its infancy--it will grow!

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Bike trail runs through century-old family cemetery A local family is speaking out after they learned a popular bike trail in St. Joseph goes right through their family's century-old cemetery.

The Finding Your Roots Discussion Group scheduled for today, May 23, is canceled. The electricity went out at the library around 6:30 and we had to close the library early.

EARLY records??? Look here! Not all counties are available (yet?) but some of the ones that are have quite a bonaza of browsable records! https://buff.ly/3AVAhRd

The meeting scheduled for Thursday April 27th at 6:30 p.m. is canceled.

MGC Spring Seminar: Folklore of the Family https://www.eventbrite.com/e/472329509277

Do you have a hope chest that has been passed down? I have my great-grandmother’s!

A tradition that has all but disappeared . . .

A vintage advertisement for the Lane Cedar Hope Chest. These were manufactured in large quantities by The Lane Company, of Altavista, Virginia. The text of the ad states that more than 200 styles were available and priced from $15.50 and up. The cedar hope chest pictured at the top of the ad is advertised as a Valentines Special for only $27.95. This vintage ad was published in February, 1942, just as the American involvement in World War Two was getting underway.

This vintage advertisement is part of an ever expanding collection of thousands of historic photographs, images and vintage postcard views for a wide variety of topics and locations (including views from EVERY state) that can be viewed on the My Genealogy Hound website at:
http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/vintage-postcards-photos-and%20images.asp

Hey folks, it looks like the snow is not going to stop. To keep us all safe, we are canceling the All Night Research event tonight. We apologize for the short notice but Mother Nature is not making it easy to schedule winter events. See you in the Spring.

True Crime Time: The Heist Before Christmas at the Downtown Library, Thursday, December 22 at 6 p.m.

In a small Texas town, two days before Christmas 1927, a group of bandits decided to hit a bank and make a withdrawal that was sure to put them on the naughty list.

Join us each month to learn about interesting, mysterious and terrible crimes. Descriptions and images used in this series are not suitable for children or the squeamish.

Free Webinar Deciphering Old Handwriting This online lecture will provide practical strategies for approaching handwritten documents, understanding and deciphering hard-to-read handwriting from different time periods, so that you can make the most of these important resources in your family history research.

We are in the process of updating our membership files and website.

Members, please email the society at [email protected] and confirm:
• any name changes
• mailing address
• phone number
• email address

We are hoping to ring in 2023 with an updated website and membership list!

Note: All current newsletters and journals are now available on our website in the Members Area. We are striving to keep everyone informed and get the website updated next year.

Thank you!

A salute to all of those who have served, past or present . . .

A colorful, early postcard honoring veterans of all time periods. This date was originally celebrated as Armistice Day which marked the formal end of major hostilities in World War I which occurred "...at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918". In 1954, this date also became officially known as Veterans Day.

An ever expanding collection of thousands of additional historic photographs and vintage postcard views for a wide variety of topics and locations (including views from EVERY state) can be viewed on the My Genealogy Hound website at:
http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/vintage-postcards-photos-and%20images.asp

Here in the US, tomorrow is Veterans Day, so I thought I’d put together this infographic that contains five free resources for military research in the United States.

So many memories.

Night Research Event at the library at 412 Felix on Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Cost is $15, payable at door. Please call 816-233-0524 or email Connie at [email protected] if you plan to attend.