Next Virtual  Society Meeting

July 23, 2020
6:00 pm
with
Rick Voight
CEO of Vivid-Pix

"Restore Your Family History – Connect With Your Family History."

Did you know family photographs are good for you health?!
Rick will talk about the importance of family photographs in connecting current and past generations, why we need to use photographs in our genealogy research and how to use those photographs to build strong family connections.

For security and privacy, you must register to attend via Zoom
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Monthly programs are open to the public, but we encourage you to join!  Your membership dues help us to provide more and better resources for the area's genealogical community. The regular meeting is the 4th Thursday of each month (except July and August) at 6:00 p.m. All meetings are virtual until further notice. For security and privacy, you must register to attend each meeting.
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We Are Here
for You

Whether you have Muskogee County ancestors or have no family connection to Muskogee County or even Oklahoma, you will find extensive support for your genealogy and family history research at the Muskogee County Genealogical Society (MCGS).

Conversation Tuesday

Each 1st and 3rd Tuesday @ 2:00pm join your family history friends for 20 to 30 minutes and visit, ask questions, suggest classes or programs. Special guests from the area are featured
as well.
To register click here

Check these out

Every Saturday morning a new "How To" video is posted here.

This week -"Let's Talk Genealogy - Answering your Questions"
by Lisa Lisson
The Spring edition of the FGS "Forum" is now available to MCGS members

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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 Genealogy and Local History Department.

Muskogee Public Library

Library has limited access now
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.
Lots of opportunities for learning

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Webinars,
Virtual Conferences, Videos, Events, Workshops,
and
Other Online Genealogy Resources