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What’s New on ACGSI.org for January 2021

Posted February 17, 2021
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New Allen County, Indiana records added to our www.acgsi.org website. Many items are Public, while some are Members Only. Volunteers, membership fees, and your donations of family research, time, and money make it possible to keep adding more items online.

We are adding videos of our Free monthly online Zoom Programs in our Members-Only section.

Public Section

Divorce filings, 2020
Insanity records, 1870-1876
Marriages from state indexes, 2020

Members-Only

Aboite Elementary School yearbook, 1988
ACGSI Allen County Lines, Dec. 2020
ACGSI general meeting minutes, Sep.-Dec. 2020
ACGSI program video, Jan. 2020
ACGSI treasurer’s reports, Sep.-Dec. 2020
Archer Arrows alumni newsletter, South Side High School, 2016-2020
Arcola telephone directories, 1926, 1958, 1963
Bishop Dwenger High School commencement program, 1977
Blackhawk Middle School yearbook, 2002
Carroll Middle School yearbook, 1991, 1997, 2000
Central Catholic High School commencement programs, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1954
Central High School class of 1945 reunion program and directory, 1990
Central High School yearbooks, 1926, 1945, 1964
Columbia City telephone directory (with Arcola), 1977
Concordia College history, 1939
Indiana Institute of Technology commencement program, 2020
Irwin Elementary School yearbook, 1993
Memorial Park yearbook, 1995
Miami Middle School yearbooks, 1990, 1991, 1992
Monroeville High School commencement program, 1955
Most Precious Blood School yearbook, 2003
New Haven High School yearbooks, 1961, 1962, 1963
New Haven High School yearbooks, 1985, 1986
North Side High School yearbooks, 1931, 1936, 1938, 1949, 1959, 1960, 1964
Northwood Jr. High yearbooks, 1972, 1974
Peace Lutheran Church pictorial directory fragment, 1976
Shriners Allah Bi newsletter, Feb. 1968
Spotlite on Fort Wayne magazines, 1964-1971
St. Louis Academy (Besancon) yearbook, 1999
Wayne St. Methodist Church history, 1949
Waynedale Elementary School yearbooks, 2003, 2014, 2019
Weisser Park/Whitney Young Elementary School yearbook, 1991; directory, 1991; 2nd grade class lists, 1993

Free Monthly Educational Programs

Presented by ALLEN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIANA, INC. and THE GENEALOGY CENTER

Our Free Educational Programs are presented at 7:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month September through May. To expand our audience and bring the amazing resources of the society to a wider audience, our 2020-2021 season of programs will begin as virtual programs on the Zoom platform. Registration for the virtual programs will be on the ACGSI website. For more information and current program offerings, please see www.acgsi.org, or visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter.

ACGSI members will be emailed an invitation to each Free Educational Program. Membership in the society is open to all.

Any changes to the meeting platform will be announced on our social media sites.

Our FREE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS are open to anyone who wishes to attend.

Web and Social Media Sites:

ACGSI web site: www.acgsi.org

ACGSI Events: www.acgsi.org/event.php

Monthly Programs: www.acgsi.org/meetings.php

Allen INGenWeb: www.acgsi.org/genweb/

Facebook: facebook.com/ACGSI/

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“Go West, Young Man: Westward Migration in the Mid-1800’s” – February 10, 2021 – Free Genealogy Program

Posted February 3, 2021
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The concept of moving west was not a new one by the mid-1800’s. Americans had been setting their sights on land to the west of civilization since before the United States was even a country. This hunger for land could not even be stopped by a civil war. Let’s explore a bit of the history and available records sets for studying your ancestors’ movement to the west.

Allison DePrey Singleton, MA, MLS, is a senior librarian at The Genealogy Center. Among her activities at the Genealogy Center, she is a Northeast Regional Co-Coordinator for the National History Day in Indiana, was a co-chair of the 2018 Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Conference, and recently spoke at the 2020 RootsTech Conference.