Crow Wing County Genealogical Society

10/22/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogy Society will meet Thursday, October 23, 2025, at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Center, 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd. Social time will be 6 - 6:30 p.m. with research, discussion, meeting and program to follow at 6:30 p.m. For the program, Jan Tropp will do a presentation on new features at Family Search. Visitors are welcome. Come and learn of the many updated collections that are available. Share your research experiences with the group.

This meeting is very important. With declining membership and a lack of interest to hold a Society office, the attending members will be confronted with the decision of possible Society disbandment. This will be a great loss in the availability to further your genealogy research.

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09/24/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogy Society will meet Thursday, September 25, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Center, 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd.
Research, discussion and social time will be from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with program to follow at 6:30 p.m.
The evening's program will be a video presentation of "Planning a Genealogy Vacation." This will include how to prepare for your research trip in the U.S. and abroad, plus "What I wish I had known before my first research trip."

Visitors are welcome. Come and learn of the many updated collections that are available. The research library is open Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and the second and fourth Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., with society members or staff to assist you. Prior to visiting the library, please call the FamilySearch Center, 218-828-4701 to assure the Center is open.

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08/14/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogy Society monthly meeting will be August 21 (instead of August 28) at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Center, 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd.

Research, discussion and social time will be from 6-6:30 p.m. with program to follow at 6:30 p.m. The evening's program will be a presentation by guest speaker, Anita Harris Hering, an educator with the University of Minnesota Extension. The topic will be "Who Gets Grandma's yellow Pie Plate." She will provide practical strategies for distributing treasured personal possessions while understanding the sensitivity of issues and consequences to family relationships in deciding "what's fair." Visitors are welcome.

The research library is open Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 P.M., and second and fourth Wednesday evening from 6:00-8:30 p.m. with society members or staff to assist you. Prior to visiting the library, please call the FamilySearch Center, 218-828-4701 to assure the Center is open.

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06/25/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogy Society will meet Thursday, June 26, 2025 at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Center, 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd.
Social time will be 6 - 6:30 p.m. followed by a webinar on DNA tips and tricks with a discussion to follow.

Visitors are welcome. Come and share your research experiences with the group.

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05/22/2025

David Gaboury will be presenting on Newspaper Research tomorrow evening:

Making the Most of Newspapers in Your Research
Newspapers are a unique resource for family history researchers. They can reveal vital statistics, family relationships, photos, stories, and contextual history that can't be found in other resources. But digging this information out can be difficult and costly. We’ll take a look at ways to get the most out of this resource, including where to find newspapers, techniques for searching them, translation, pitfalls, and incorporating them into your family story. We’ll also take a brief look at ancestry.com’s new tree checker feature, a great tool for improving the consistency of your family tree.

Join us at 6pm at 101 Buffalo Hills Lane West in Brainerd MN

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05/17/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogy Society will meet Thursday, May 22, 2025, at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints FamilySearch Center, 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd. Research, discussion and social time will be 6 - 6:30 p.m., with meeting and program to follow at 6:30 p.m. The program will feature presenter, David Gaboury, a celebrated genealogy researcher and award-winning author of 360 year history of his Gaboury family roots.
Come and share your research experiences with the group. Visitors are welcome.
Society members will be doing cemetery tombstone cleaning at Vaale Cemetery, CR #24, Saturday, May 31st, 10:00 a.m. to noon. The public is welcome to come and assist society members with this project.
The FamilySearch Research Library is open Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening 6 - 8:30 p.m. Society members or staff will assist you with your research. Prior to visiting the library, please call the FamilySearch Center; 218-828-4701, to assure the library is open.

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04/22/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogical Society will meet this Thursday evening, April 24th at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, Family Search Center at 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd. Research, discussion and social time begins at 6 pm, with a very brief meeting at 6:30, followed by our program. The program is a pre-recorded webinar on recent Ancestry.com updates. Visitors are welcome.

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04/08/2025

03/26/2025

The Crow Wing County Genealogical Society will meet this Thursday evening, March 27th at The Church of Jesus Christ Later-day Saints, Family Search Center at 101 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd. Research, discussion and social time begins at 6 pm, with a very brief update meeting at 6:30, followed by our program. The program, presented by Jan Burton, will focus on a family Civil War diary. Visitors are welcome.

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