Madison
County Genealogical Society
Minutes of the Meeting - April 10, 2014
The April 2014 meeting of the Madison
County Genealogical Society was held at the Edwardsville Public Library on
Thursday, April 10, at 7:00 pm.
President, Robert Ridenour, called the
meeting to order.
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MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE
Do you have a family member that is
interested in (or even obsessed with) genealogy? A membership in the Madison
County Genealogical Society would be a very thoughtful gift. A gift card will
be sent to the recipient of any gift membership.
The following memberships are available:
Individual/Family Annual Membership $20.00
Patron Annual Membership $30.00
Life Membership $250.00
Contact our Secretary, Petie Hunter, at petie8135@att.net, about a gift membership.
April
Meeting
On April 10, 2014, Kathy Kessels and Lynn Haller presented a dual program. Ms. Kessels' presentation was titled, "Genealogy Resources at the Louis Latzer Memorial Public Library." Kathy is the
secretary and acquisitions librarian at Louis Latzer
Memorial Public Library in Highland, Illinois, and also takes care of the
genealogy room and all genealogy queries. She has worked at the library for 25
years. Kathy helped start the Looking Glass Prairie Genealogy Group formed in
2003. The list of Genealogy Resources at the Louis Latzer
Library can be found here.
Ms. Haller's presentation was on the Looking Glass
Prairies Genealogy Group's Madison County Country Schools Project. Lynn
was born and raised in Highland and has been doing genealogy since the age of
ten. She is a retired RN, and through her work as a nurse, got to know many of
the families in the Highland area. She is also very interested in dating old
pictures. As part of her presentation, Ms. Haller passed out a questionaire to anyone in the audience who had ever
attended a country school (even if it was not in Madison County) and asked them
to fill it out and return it to her so that she could gain more information
about the country schools. If you have attended a country school, you can find
the questionaire at School_Questionaire, fill it out on your computer, and
e-mail it to Lynn at Hhaller@wisperhome.com.
Ms. Haller also had artifacts (books,
posters, photographs, etc.) from many of the county rural schools on display.
These artifacts drew many of the attendees up to the display after the
presentation. She also handed out a list of the known rural schools in Madison
County (and a few in neighboring counties). Click here
to download that list.
This presentation was very well attended, very well
received, and produced several questions from the audience.