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SKCGS Annual Membership Meeting: Curt Witcher presents "Using Periodicals and PERSI to Take Your Research to the Next Level"

9:30am - 10:00am PT - Social time (sign in early to chat)
10:00am PT - SKCGS Annual General Membership Business Meeting

Speaker presentation afterwards:
Curt Witcher presents "Using Periodicals and PERSI to Take Your Research to the Next Level"

Extremely significant quantities of family and local history data are published in the newsletters, journals, quarterlies, and magazines of the world’s historical and genealogical societies. Yet, so many genealogists leave periodical literature untouched when conducting their research and investigating secondary
sources of data. This presentation identifies the major types of periodical literature, what indices are available and how they can be most effectively used, and where one can find specific publications. Special attention is given to the Periodical Source Index as the largest and most comprehensive subject index in the genealogical field, and now freely available from the Genealogy Center’s webpage at GenealogyCenter.org.

Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection of Abraham Lincoln related research materials and the institution’s Fine Books Collection. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society.

May 20, 2023 10:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)