2025 MGC Fall Family History Event featuring Curt Witcher, FIGS, FUGA
Co-sponsored by the Archives of Michigan and the Library of Michigan.
Join MGC for these exciting topics.
- Doing Effective Genealogical Research in Libraries – Curt Witcher
- Perilous Assumptions: Revisiting Those First Finds with Kris Rzepczynski, Archives of Michigan
- Mining The Mother Lode: Periodical Research – Curt Witcher
- Michigan Souvenir Books – Visual Context to Our Family History Research – Adam Oster and Matt Pacer, Library of Michigan
- High Tech and High Touch of 21st Century Genealogy – Curt Witcher
This event will be held both on-site in Lansing and virtually. Tickets $50 – $60.
Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society.
Curt currently serves on the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board, the Indiana Historical Society’s publications committee, and the executive committee of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana’s Board of Directors. He also serves on the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society board of directors as well as an advisor for the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne. Curt is distinguished as a fellow of both the Indiana Genealogical Society and the Utah Genealogical Association.