On Wednesday, October 1, I will be presenting a free webinar for the Minnesota Genealogical Society. The topic is railroad records and how to find them. It's been about 20 years that I have been researching and lecturing on this favorite topic.
Wednesday, October 1
Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking (Webinars)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
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Instructor: Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA
If we didn’t have the railroads
many of our ancestors might not have migrated across this country. Great
grandpa would have been jobless. Aunt Susannah would not have visited
the nieces and nephews. You might not have inherited a railroad watch.
How else would your Grandfather from Ohio have met your Grandmother in
Kansas? And we would not have the fun of searching for a payroll stub,
railroad timetable, accident report, retirement record, personnel file,
picture of Grandpa’s steam engine, or learning about the part the
railroad played in the settlement of the old home town. This session
shows how to determine which railroad you need to research and locate
finding aids to determine what records might exist today and where they
are located.
Cost: Free!
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1 comment:
My great grandfather was a railroad conductor in Pennsylvania according to the census records. I don't have any other information about him! Thanks for letting us know about the webinar. I just registered!
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