Listmates A GERMAN LECTURE SERIES IS COMING - mark you calendars. A lecture series to be held most Sundays in February 2004 is in the planning stages by the St. Clair County Historical Society, 701 East Washington Street, Belleville, IL 62220, ph: (618) 234- 0600. Lectures to be held at Southwestern Illinois College, 2:00 p.m. Dates and presenters so far: Feb 8, 2004 Tom Jewett on Gustave Koerner and his national connections. Feb 15, 2004 Steven Rowan - lecture focuses on why Germans were drawn to the St. Louis metro region and their life upon arrival. Feb 29, 2004 Steven Rowan - The Fantasy Prairie: Southern Illinois in 1850s German-American Trash Novels Mar 7, 2004 T.B.A This series is a fund raiser for the Gustave Koerner House Preservation (Belleville). Single and package ticket prices will be decided soon. If interested in this series, email Diane Walsh at [email protected] or call the St. Clair County Historical Society.

We have Koerners here in NC. Kernersville is named for its very prominent citizen. I'm no kin but the records here are superb. Winston-Salem area. Forsyth Co. Dottie Austin Diane Walsh wrote: > Listmates > > A GERMAN LECTURE SERIES IS COMING - mark you calendars. > > A lecture series to be held most Sundays in February 2004 is in the planning stages by the St. Clair County Historical Society, 701 East Washington Street, Belleville, IL 62220, ph: (618) 234- 0600. Lectures to be held at Southwestern Illinois College, 2:00 p.m. > > Dates and presenters so far: > > Feb 8, 2004 Tom Jewett on Gustave Koerner and his national connections. > > Feb 15, 2004 Steven Rowan - lecture focuses on why Germans were drawn to the St. Louis metro region and their life upon arrival. > > Feb 29, 2004 Steven Rowan - The Fantasy Prairie: Southern Illinois in 1850s German-American Trash Novels > > Mar 7, 2004 T.B.A > > This series is a fund raiser for the Gustave Koerner House Preservation (Belleville). Single and package ticket prices will be decided soon. If interested in this series, email Diane Walsh at [email protected] or call the St. Clair County Historical Society. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >