British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois
Where and when we meet:
BIGWILL’s meetings are held at:Grace Lutheran Church
6000 Broadway Street
(West of U.S. Route 12, accessible from Illinois Route 173/Kenosha St.)
Richmond, Illinois
10am until noon on the third Saturday of the months of
January, March, May, July, September and November.
Visitors as well as members are always welcome. Refreshments are available for a donation at each meeting.
Marching toward Richmond (area map)
Getting to the Church On Time (village map)
Upcoming meeting dates and topics:
19 September 2009: “Blogs, Podcasts, and Webinars! Oh, My!” A BIGWILL member for several years, Karen Glass is a retired typographer and web designer. As the BIGWILL News editor, she has been featuring many new ways to find that elusive ancestor, and through the use of the internet message boards and mail lists, she has been in contact with numerous “newly found” cousins worldwide.She will present information on genealogical blogs, podcasts, webinars, webcasts, and more online sites.
Karen’s four-page handout was in short supply at the meeting. If you didn’t get a copy (or weren’t able to attend the meeting), you can download a copy of Karen’s handout now.
21 November 2009: “Irish Emigration and the Irish Emigration Library” by Mary Kay Kuhfittig and Patricia Keeney Geyh. They will review Irish emigration paths and discuss the material located at the Irish Emigration Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Elections for BIGWILL officers with terms starting in 2010 (president, first vice-president, treasurer, one director) will take place ahead of the program.
BIGWILL recognizes that occasionally roads may be dangerously icy or snow-covered on our winter-time meeting days. Meetings will only be cancelled if law enforcement advises us of hazardous driving conditions in the Richmond area. We will attempt to have cancellations aired on WGN (AM 720) and other area radio stations, but there is no guarantee. You may check on the meeting status up until 9 a.m. on meeting days by calling Prudy Sullivan at (262)279-3494. You can also check this web site for last-minute meeting cancellation notices.
What would you like to hear about? What would you like to talk about?
BIGWILL is always on the lookout for program ideas, and Peg Gleich is our chief scout. Have you taken a trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man? If so, consider giving a presentation to BIGWILL about what you saw and did. Have you heard a good talk at some other society’s meeting which was related to British Isles research? Or do you just know a topic you’d like to learn more about, even if you don’t know who could give a presentation on the topic? If your answer is “Yes” to any of these questions, help put Peg hot on the trail of another BIGWILL meeting topic. You can contact her by email, by phone (at 608-752-8816) or in person at almost any BIGWILL meeting. You can make a difference!There have been
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