The DeKalb County Indiana Genealogy Society meetings are usually held the second Monday of each month. An informal refreshment and sharing time begins at 6:00 p.m. with the regular meeting starting at 6:15 p.m.

DCIGS meetings are usually held at the Eckhart Public Library, 603 S. Jackson Street, Auburn, IN. Other times, locations, and meetings that vary from this will be announced.

Identifying Old Photographs
Presented by
Amanda Wells Blackman



May 13, 2013
At W.H. Willennar Genealogy Center
(A service of the Eckhart Public Library)
6:00 social time  6:15 meeting time

 

Do you have an old shoebox filled with family pictures from a long ago era? You don’t want to throw them out but you have no idea who they are. Or maybe one person is identified but there is a whole lot of relatives there – wait, that one looks a little like you. What year was it taken? What the heck, you think it was way before you were born! Come listen to this interesting program that Amanda and her mom, Roselyn Wells put together out of two separate programs. Amanda Blackman, a teacher in Fort Wayne, has always been interested in family history and she has fine tuned this program, buying photos to illustrate different types of photographs. Plan on attending & bringing a couple of photos for Amanda to examine and comment on.
 

Prior 2013 DCIGS Meetings
 

Prior 2012 DCIGS Meetings

MEMBERSHIPS

Membership in the Society is open to anyone who is interested in genealogy.
The cost of membership is $10.00 for an individual and $15.00 for a family membership (January to December). Life memberships are available for individuals at $200.00 and family life memberships at $250.00. A quarterly newsletter, DeKalb Diggings, which you will receive, is sent by April 15, July 15 and October 15 and January 15.

Click Here for a, Membership Form







RESEARCH

PLEASE NOTE:  Due to a large number of query requests, we have temporarily suspended the acceptance of new queries.  This service will start again in the near future.

Only brief queries will be researched. Cost will be for copies. As a member you may place a free query in our newsletter.
Send queries to: DeKalb County Genealogy Society, c/o Query Editor, P.O. Box 6085, Auburn, Indiana 46706

Queries may also be sent to the following email:

Roselyn Wells rozwells at mediacombb.net  (please note that this is a new e-mail address.  If you sent a query to the old e-mail address of rozwells at sbcglobal.net, please resubmit your request, after April 15, 2012.  Thank you!

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

DeKalb County Church Records Project

Past and present churches in the county. A history and records of the churches before 1930. If you know of old DeKalb County church records that are not located at a church please let us know.

Pioneer Settlers

This ongoing project is chaired by Patricia Dyson.
More Information below.

Will Index

This project is done and is published in book form.  Possibly an update will be published later when more probate records are gone through and the wills that are newly filed can be kept up to date.  Thank you to our former committee of Roselyn Wells and Carol Pettit and also to past members that have worked on this project.

Will Index Information (Books 1-6)   Will Index (Books 1-6)

PIONEER CERTIFICATE

Our DeKalb County ancestors made it happen.

Some traveled many rough miles to get here while others were born in DeKalb County. They cleared the land, built roads and houses, planted and harvested the first crops.

If your direct descendant lived in DeKalb County prior to December 31, 1850, you may apply for a Pioneer Certificate.

Pioneer Settlers Application

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