2025 MGC Fall Family History Event

This event features Curt Witcher, FIGS, FUGA and is co-sponsored by the Archives of Michigan and the Library of Michigan.

Join the Michigan Genealogical Council for these exciting topics!

• Doing Effective Genealogical Research in Libraries presented by Curt Witcher
• Perilous Assumptions: Revisiting Those First Finds presented by Kris Rzepczynski from the Archives of Michigan
• Mining The Mother Lode: Periodical Research presented by Curt Witcher
• Michigan Souvenir Books – Visual Context to Our Family History Research presented by Adam Oster and Matt Pacer from the Library of Michigan
• High Tech and High Touch of 21st Century Genealogy presented by Curt Witcher 

This event will be held both on-site in Lansing and virtually. Tickets $50 – $60.

Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society.

Curt currently serves on the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board, the Indiana Historical Society’s publications committee, and the executive committee of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana’s Board of Directors. He also serves on the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society board of directors as well as an advisor for the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne. Curt is distinguished as a fellow of both the Indiana Genealogical Society and the Utah Genealogical Association.