The La Porte County (IN) Genealogical Society will meet at 7 PM Tuesday, November 11, 2014. The business portion of the meeting will be followed by a program presented by Patricia Gruse Harris, author and genealogist. She will speak on ”Military Cemetery Flag Holders, the organizations they represent and how to obtain information on ancestors’ service.”
All members are reminded that the December meeting, featuring the awarding of the Genealogist of the Year Award, will be at ‘Round the Clock restaurant at 6 Pm on December 9. The President, Dorothy Palmer, will expect those who intend to attend to notify her at this November meeting.
The society meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month, weather permitting, at the La Porte City Parks and Recreation Department building at 250 Pine Lake Avenue. The business meeting will start promptly at 7:00, and the social time and refreshment period will come between the business meeting and the program. The public is welcome at all meetings.
For more information about the society's activities in awards, research, abstracting, transcribing, indexing, publishing, and records preservation, visit our web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/.
The society also has a blog at http://lpcgs.blogspot.com/. There you can find summaries of meetings, news items about the society, and a posting of several years of the society’s newsletter.