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Historical Summer 2014 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
As part of its participation in the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of St. Louis, the St. Louis Genealogical Society is scheduling workshops for individuals or families who want to learn about their St. Louis ancestors (or maybe more about the families who have lived in their St. Louis house).
These free workshops are aimed at those who may have very little knowledge about researching family history.
In a scheduled one and a halfhour meeting with a genealogy expert, you can learn how to complete some basic forms, see what records are available for your research, and discover what steps to take next. Current dates are Saturdays, June 14, July 12, and August 9, 2014, and will run from 10:00– 11:30 or 11:30–1:00. Advance registration is required, and participants are asked to submit answers to some basic questions about the person you wish to research. Registration forms are available on the St. Louis Genealogical Society website at http://www. stlgs.org/.
My husband, Rick, and I had thought our own St. Louis heritage was fairly recent, my grandparents and his parents being the earliest that we were aware of for a long time. Rick’s mother, however, had said that one of his great grandfathers on her side had farmed in Forest Park.
While it took more than an hour and a half, we have found James W. Elley, a great-great-grandfather, living in the Thomas Skinker household as a “laborer” in the 1850 census in Central Township, marrying a Welsh immigrant, and later, owning land on Manchester before he moved to central Missouri.
Following up on family stories and bits of information has been fun.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2014.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times2014_06.pdf, printed page(s) 7; PDF page(s) 7.
