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08/20/2026

REMINDER and Correction of Topic:

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at 6:30 pm on Zoom. Debra Dudek will present “Unusual Place to Find Births and Naturalizations”

Description:
Widen your search for birth dates and locations as well as naturalizations from a variety of underutilized resources such as military rosters, consulate applications, voter registrations, cancelled passports, frakturs and much more. This lecture focuses on both digital and physical resources, so bring your research checklist and see whether these resources can help you fill gaps in your family tree.

RICIGS members will receive a Zoom invitation. Not a member, email [email protected] for an invitation

08/16/2026

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at 6:30 pm on Zoom. Debra Dudek will present “Unusual Place to Find Births and Naturalizations”

Description:
Widen your search for birth dates and locations as well as naturalizations from a variety of underutilized resources such as military rosters, consulate applications, voter registrations, cancelled passports, frakturs and much more. This lecture focuses on both digital and physical resources, so bring your research checklist and see if these resources can help you fill in the gaps in your family tree.

07/15/2026

Culper Spy Ring

Culper Spy Ring Learning Event! Ann Reid, a historical interpreter, will be presenting a program, “Culper Spy Ring,” at Andalusia Library on Saturday, July 18, at 2 pm. Learn how George Washington's Culper Spy Ring helped him win the war and our country’s independence. The Andalusia Library is located at 503 2nd Street West in Andalusia, Illinois. Adults and children are welcome.

07/14/2026

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at 6:30 pm on Zoom. Eric Vavra will present “Why WikiTree? Global Collaboration, Powerful Tools, Completely Free."

Description: Learn How WikiTree Enables You To:
• Connect with Passionate Genealogists Worldwide
• Discover, Preserve, and Share Your Family History
• Leverage a Variety of Tools to Uncover and Explore New Insights
• Benefit from Shared Knowledge and Resources to Enhance Your Research
• Experience the Power of Free Genealogy Center

This introductory presentation will focus on the unique advantages of including WikiTree in your genealogy toolkit. Importantly, the overview will include how to get started at your own pace and receive support to navigate the initial learning curve. Key areas of value you can utilize, even if you do not become an active tree contributor, will be discussed.

06/26/2026

Start the countdown! Beginning NOW, and for the next 250 hours, enjoy FREE ACCESS to Fold3 Revolutionary War records, including full-text search pension records! www.fold3.com/freeaccess

06/18/2026

Extend your knowledge of Colonial clothing with veteran historical interpreter and re-enactor Ann Reid. The program takes guests from the shearing and spinning of wool for clothing to how finished garments were made.

Tuesday, June 30 at 6:00pm.

06/08/2026

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 6:30 pm on Zoom. This presentation was originally to be in-person but had to change to virtual due to the speaker's request. Michael John Neill will present"Researching the Entire Family and Beyond."

Description: Focusing only on the direct line can cause significant information to be overlooked and larger patterns, records, and information to go unnoticed. This lecture discusses, via examples, the importance of researching the siblings, extended family, and associates of the ancestor of interest.

05/14/2026

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, MAY 26, 2026, at 6:30 pm. J. Mark Lowe will present “Finding Your Landless Ancestors, Renters, and Sharecroppers."

Description: Since land is the key in many ancestral discoveries, tracking those individuals who did not own land often becomes a daunting task. Learn to use Trust Deed Chattels and Tax Release Books to help locate those individuals without deeds and estates.

RICIGS members will receive a Zoom invitation. Not a member, email [email protected] for an invitation.

04/19/2026

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 6:30 pm. Michelle Bray Wilson will present “DNA Inheritance, Our Matchlists and More Best Practices ”.

Description: Inheritance results in only tiny changes to the Y-DNA men get from their fathers and the mt-DNA we all get from our mothers. But the inheritance process makes a scramble of our autosomal DNA. Understanding inheritance is key to making sense of our matchlists, and how our matchlists are the key to both unlocking unknown parentage and to pushing back our ancestral lines. We’ll use actual case studies and explore some third-party tools to apply this knowledge for cases such as unknown parentage and pushing back brick-walled lines to the next generation. In Best Practices (part 2) we’ll explore cases where matches don’t post trees and show how to get the most out of the hints in Ancestry’s ThruLines and MyHeritage’s Theory of Relativity.

This will be a great topic to learn about how to navigate our DNA matchlists! RICIGS members will receive a Zoom invitation. Not a member, email [email protected] for an invitation.

04/09/2026

If you wish to purchase a brick to honor your veteran family member, now is the time to do so. Time is running out and this will be your last opportunity to do so.

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Rock Island, IL
61204

Website

http://ricigs.org/

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