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Genealogical Society
NEWSLETTER

Online IIGS™ Membership Form Is Back in Business!

IIGS™ Membership Team Co-chairman Paula Wiegand shares the good news that the membership form is again functional. If you are not a member, now is the time to join!

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Patty MacFarlane Prather and a group of eager volunteers have found a no-stress way to transcribe ship passenger lists for the benefit of all online genealogists.

Huguenots and Walloons

IIGS™ member Lorine McGinnis Schulze has one of the most comprehensive genealogy web sites found on the World Wide Web. "Huguenots and Walloons" is just one of the articles you'll find there.

Singing the MRI Blues

Queries Team Leader Wally Garchow has just completed a project which will allow IIGS™ members to share their research interests not only with each other, but with any genealogist who searches the Web looking for connections. He just wonders why folks are not rushing to take advantage of the latest IIGS™ benefit.

The Red River Rebellions

Author Bob Bonnar isn't a genealogist. This article is adapted from a college paper he wrote about the Louis Riel and the Métis of Northwest Canada. His mother, the IIGS™ editor, found his paper among all the things mothers are prone to collect.

Researching Family History in Gwent, Wales

Author Ann Macey is the editor for the Gwent Family History Society and gives you loads of tips for researching your Welsh ancestors.

Uprooted: A Short History of the Gathering of Dutch-Indonesian Genealogy

Jan A. Krancher, Ph.D., shares this article, originally written in Dutch by Mr. Visker, about efforts to collect and preserve the history of the Indisch.

All Aboard for Ontario Research on #IIGS-ONTARIO

Mary Croft invites genealogists to join the IIGS™ Ontario chat on the Rootsweb server.

Your Chance to participate

Read here about National Geographic's online survey about migration.

Giving Credit

The IIGS™ Newsletter embarks on a new effort to give authors of genealogy articles which make the rounds of newsgroups and mail lists credit for their work. We begin with giving credit for an article which appeared in the May 1998 issue of the IIGS™ Newsletter. At the time of publication, the article was listed as "author unknown." We have since learned otherwise.

Help Wanted

Stop here to find out what online genealogy projects could benefit from your talents.