Monthly Meeting

December 13, 2018
6:00 pm
Christmas Dinner,
Webinar, and Party
Webinar with J. Mark Lowe
"Finding Elusive Information using Letters to Santa, Birthday Notices, and
Personal Items"
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http://www.kytnresearch.com
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA is a full-time professional genealogist, author, and lecturer. While sharing personal experiences that help beginning and experienced researchers gain new skills and insights for research, he specializes in Kentucky and Tennessee resources and researches primarily in original records and manuscripts throughout the South.
Grant Foreman Room
of the
Muskogee Public
Library
All Society meetings are free and open to the public. The regular meeting is the 4th Thursday of each month (except July and August) at 6:00 p.m. in the Grant Foreman Room of the Muskogee Public Library, unless announced otherwise.
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Spaulding Institute (above) aka Spaulding Female College was built by the Methodists in 1901. The building had a long and interesting history before it was demolished by the City of Muskogee in 1965. More information is available in Muskogee Public Library's Local History & Genealogy Department.

Muskogee Public Library

The Local History & Genealogy Department has one of the largest genealogical collections in Northeastern Oklahoma. The friendly and knowledgeable staff is experienced in all areas of research including Native American and Freedman research. The department has the Dawes Rolls, enrollment cards, applications and other rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes as well as local newspapers, and court records. Visit their website for databases you can search from home using your MPL library card 

MPL is an affiliate of Family Search  making it possible for you to view digital images not otherwise available on your personal computer. There are also other databases available only on computers in the department.

MCGS uses only the resources of MPL when fulfilling your research requests.