We have been asked to share the following information about the October 7 Meeting of Kelowna & District Genealogical Society:
Be sure to register for this special presentation by Curt Witcher, Director of the Allen County Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana! This is North America’s second largest genealogy library and also the creator of the PERSI Index (indexing genealogy and history journals and newsletters from around the world). Curt Witcher is a great speaker and passionate about helping genealogists!
October 7: Making the Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana Your Research Assistant
The presentation will cover how to explore the international holdings and datafiles of the Genealogy Center both to plan a research trip to Fort Wayne and, especially, to use the Genealogy Center remotely.
Date: Monday, October 7, 2024, 6pm
Presenter: Curt Witcher
Location: via Zoom
Price: KDGS members Free;* non-members $10; REGISTRATION REQUIRED (https://kdgs.ca/2024/october-2024-general-meeting/)
* Join now for $40 and be able to attend all our monthly meetings for free plus many other benefits!
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 and on 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 a fellow of both the Indiana Genealogical Society and the Utah Genealogical Association. Over the decades, he led collaborative national efforts to preserve and make more accessible historical data. For those efforts he has received the Federation of Genealogical Societies’ Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award and the National Genealogical Society’s P. William Filby Award for outstanding, life-time contributions to genealogical librarianship. Curt’s passion for finding families’ stories and his belief in the power of those stories to change lives has been recognized by numerous organizations. He is the recipient of the Indiana Historical Society’s 2019 Eli Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award for extraordinary contributions to the field of history, the 2024 “I Love My Librarian Award” from the American Library Association for outstanding public service and a 2024 Distinguished Hoosier Award from the Governor of the State of Indiana.
