Genealogy Weekend! Five Classes at the Minnesota History Center, St. Paul Instructors Jim and Paula Stuart Warren are nationally recognized genealogical researchers, lecturers and writers. All classes include handouts and Internet information. - Call 651-503-4802 for information. All of these one-session classes on family history and genealogy meet in the MacMillan Education Center on the second level of the Minnesota History Center, the home of the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS). For directions to the History Center, call 651-296-1430 or check the MHS Website at www.mnhs.org. HOW TO REGISTER: Advance registration by mail is recommended. List the chosen class(es), your address, phone, and MHS membership number. Mail that information with the registration fees listed below (check payable to Warren Research) to: Warren Research, 1869 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104-5938. Refunds will be given when canceling in writing at least 10 days before class. Registration is taken at the door is space is available. For more information on these classes, call Warren Research at 651-503-4802 or e-mail [email protected] Research at the Wisconsin Historical Society Saturday, March 29, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. The library of the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison is renowned for its genealogical and historical collection, covering all of North America. It includes most available U.S. and Canadian censuses, and tens of thousands of county and family histories, passenger lists, periodicals, and much more. This session introduces the library's holdings, the WHS Web site, recent library additions and changes, practical information for a trip, and what you can do first in the Twin Cities, especially at the Minnesota Historical Society. Instructor Paula Stuart Warren is a nationally recognized genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. For over twenty years she has made frequent research trips to the Wisconsin Historical society. She has taught researchers how to prepare for trips to Madison for over fifteen years. Class registrants receive a four page handout that includes Internet sites. Fee: $9; $7 for MHS members. Passenger Arrival and Naturalization Records Saturday, March 29, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. When and where did your ancestors arrive in the U.S. or become citizens? The records can sometimes be elusive, but you can take sensible research steps in order to find them. You will learn about published, CR-ROM, online, and microfilmed information that is available, how to determine at least the approximate arrival and naturalization dates, and how to then locate and evaluate the indexes and records. Instructor Jim Warren is a nationally recognized genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. He has presented information on passenger arrival and naturalization records to hundreds of genealogists over the past ten years. Class registrants receive a four page handout that includes always-growing Internet sites. Fee: $9; $7 for MHS members. Brand New Class! Found: One Ancestral Address, the Poor Farm Saturday, March 29, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. You may already know an ancestral address as the county poor farm. Others discover it and are mystified. The family may have attached a stigma to this and shoveled the facts under that proverbial rug. For the researcher, this address offers other levels of records to search. Those include courts, county commissioners, residence applications, and the farm's own resident and burial/cemetery records. The records may give much detail and may hold surprises. Not all the residents were destitute. Some of the poor farms had names that did not convey the type of institution. The lecture covers what records might exist, where to find them, access concerns, and how to interpret the findings. Instructor Paula Stuart Warren is nationally recognized genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. This brand new class introduces a resource seldom used by genealogists. Locating and researching such records has been a specialty of Paula's during her more than twenty years as a professional re! searcher. All her classes include handouts with Internet sites. Fee: $9; $7 for MHS members. Brand New Class! Research On-site Like A Pro Sunday, March 30, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Whether you need to make a trip across the state or across the country, this session shows how professional researchers work on-site to accomplish the most, suffer the least, accommodate the unforeseen, and still enjoy the experience! When is a research trip really worthwhile? What works regarding time, research methods, repositories and staff, computers, expenses, food, transportation, accommodations, communicating, copies, and finding the right information? The on-site tips, tools, and options that work for professionals on short or longer research trips can also be effective for your personal family research. Instructor Jim Warren is a nationally recognized genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. Since 1989, he and his wife, Paula, have specialized in on-site research across the upper Midwest and at major genealogical and historical repositories across the country. He will share tips and methods they use in the many months they spend each year researching on-site. C! lass registrants receive a four page handout that includes Internet sites. Fee: $9; $7 for MHS members. Brand New Class! Treasures in State Archives Collections: Focus on the Midwest Sunday, March 30, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Important undiscovered clues to your family history may be nearby and readily available to you. The State Archives of ten Midwest States will be discussed. Examples of the genealogical treasures they hold, and how to go about discovering them (on-site and online) will prepare you to make use of these collections. It will also educate you on how to make good use of similar governmental archives elsewhere. Come and see what can be found in the rich archives collections of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Instructor Jim Warren is a nationally recognized genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. He specializes in the Midwest states, and has researched extensively in archives and historical societies there and across the country. Class registrants receive an extensive handout that includes Internet sites. Fee: $9; $7 for MHS members.