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Saturday, December 7
GSMC December Meeting (Meeting)
1:00 pm Monroe County Community College, Administration Building -Cafeteria
"Using Polish Websites to Find Grandpa's Village"
The ancestral birthplace has been identified by using passenger manifest and naturalization records. Now what? This presentation will provide tips for using several Polish websites to locate records.
Since 2007, Valerie Koselka served as Corresponding Secretary, Vice-President and is the current President of the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan. She represents PGSM as a delegate to the Michigan Genealogical Council and the National Genealogical Society.
Valerie is a member of several local genealogy societies including Downriver Genealogical Society, Dearborn Genealogical Society, Detroit Society of Genealogical Research, and the Western Wayne Genealogical Society. She joined the West Side Detroit Polish American Historical Society, the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and Northeast, Eastern European Genealogical Society, and the Polish Genealogical Society of America.
She volunteers at the Westland Family Search Center twice a month and admins several Polish genealogy groups on Facebook.
She lives with her genealogist husband, Tom, in Westland.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
GSMC January Meeting (Meeting)
1:00 pm Monroe County Community College, Administration Building -Cafeteria
Join us in the cafeteria of the Monroe County Community College to learn about landscape artist Robert Duncanson.
Jeffrery Albergo, known as The Neon Cat, is an award winning photographer who has displayed his works in Japan, Toronto and the Monroe area. In 2019 he started studying the life of Robert Duncanson and is a founding member and president of the Robert S. Duncanson Society of Monroe. He researches, designs the website and prints all the displays and promo materials for RSDS.
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Saturday, February 1, 2025
GSMC February Meeting (Meeting)
1:00 pm Monroe County Community College, Administration Building -Cafeteria
Few Michiganians know that during WWII our state was home to 6,000 captive German and Italian soldiers, part of a national program that included more than 400,000 POWs. They were processed at Fort Custer near Battle Creek, then assigned to 31 smaller camps in mostly remote areas. Every effort was made to remove the “bad guys” — the overt Nazis and Fascists — from the general population, most of whom were homesick young men glad to be out of the war.
Gregory Sumner, a professor of history at University of Detroit Mercy, has written a book called Michigan POW Camps in World War II and will share stories of the men who lived in these camps and how they impacted the communities around them.
Join us for what will be an interesting trip through time learning about a little known piece of Michigan history. |
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
GSMC March Meeting (Meeting)
Monroe County Community College, Administration Building -Cafeteria
The River Raisin National Battlefield Park’s own staff member, Shawna Lynn Mazur, will be doing a presentation on her newly released book “LOST Towns of Monroe County, Michigan.”
Published by Arcadia’s The History Press, the book reveals many fascinating aspects of the development of over a hundred small to large communities scattered across Monroe County’s fifteen townships.
Discover why the towns were located where they were, how they developed and why some disappeared without a trace? Each town has surprises to reveal about what life was like in the way of farming, homemaking, schooling, businesses, industry, crime, Prohibition, tragedies, epidemics, and more. Learn about the town that became known as the paper city, wildcat banks, bank robberies, crimes, fires, and more. |
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Saturday, April 5, 2025
GSMC April Meeting (Meeting)
1:00 pm Monroe County Community College, Administration Building -Cafeteria
Intertwining fiction and historical fact, author Laura A. Stewart brings to life the story of a small nineteenth-century farming community’s quest to build Michigan’s first public schoolhouse. Set in 1828 near the grape-vined River Raisin in Michigan, this delightful picture book is narrated by Justus, a young boy who has never held a book other than the family Bible. Now, his close-knit community is gathering to build something he’s only dreamed of: a public schoolhouse.
As always, the public is welcome to attend. |
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