March 13, 2021 10:30 am – June 28, 2025 12:00 pm Virtual Meeting at 10:30 am Eastern Time. If you've thought about visiting your ancestral homeland, as a tourist or to further your genealogy research, planning is essential. Barry Atkins will share what he learned from organizing his own trip to Slovakia so that you can…
February 13, 2021 10:30 am – February 15, 2021 12:00 pm Virtual Meeting at 10:30 am Eastern Time on Feb. 13 Interested in joining the Mayflower Society? Please join as Nancy Larsen, Membership Chair of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA), discusses membership eligibility, how to prove one’s lineage to a Mayflower…
March 14, 2020 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main Branch, JCEC (Second floor) **Out of an abundance of caution, WPGS will postpone this event. This class will be rescheduled for Fall 2020.** fold3 is a valuable resource to research your ancestor’s military records – and more! Join WPGS to learn more about…
July 22, 2020 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Virtual Presentation. The handout for this program will be available until August 15, 2020. This free evening lecture was sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, in conjunction with GRIP.
June 24, 2020 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Virtual Presentation: Please see below for the registration link. The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society is sponsoring this very interesting speaker in conjunction with GRIP courses being taught that week. Description. Understanding the convoluted land history and related records enables researchers to find kinship information buried in these records. Discover the…
April 11, 2020 10:30 am – 12:00 pm South Wing Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Main Branch, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh **Due to closure of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, this event has been cancelled. Please check back for a rescheduled date/time.** Join us as we gather to share a webinar focused on finding your ancestors’ ethnic…
March 15, 2020 12:00 am – March 31, 2020 11:59 am Online Out of an abundance of caution, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh — where the WPGS library is located — will be closing until the end of March in light of the COVID-19 epidemic. The WPGS library will not be available until CLP re-opens, and…
September 12, 2020 10:30 am Online
October 10, 2020 10:30 am – June 28, 2025 12:00 pm Online (please see below for links)
November 14, 2020 10:30 am – November 16, 2020 12:00 pm Online (please see below for registration link) This talk will start at 10:30 am Eastern Time on Saturday, Nov. 14. Please join us as Kristin Britanik presents a how-to guide for finding online sources outside of the major genealogy websites for Western Pennsylvania and…
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