Ask a Genealogist!

 

Presented by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society and Milwaukee Public Library

 

 

 

Milwaukee Central Public Library Downtown, 814 West Wisconsin Avenue

 

 

Milwaukee Central Public Library Downtown, 814 West Wisconsin Avenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
More Information at MCGS Genealogy Classes webpage. 

 

Ask a Genealogist!

 

Presented by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society and Milwaukee Public Library

 

Do you want to learn more about your family history, but don't know where to begin?

Have you started researching your family, but need ideas of new places to look for information?

 

Work one-on-one with an experienced genealogist from the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society (MCGS). MCGS members will be available to answer your research questions and demonstrate search strategies to help find pieces of your family history puzzle.

 

 

 

Milwaukee Central Public Library Downtown, 814 West Wisconsin Avenue

 

 

American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, in the Golda Meir Library

 

 

American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, in the Golda Meir Library

The American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), one of the premier collections of its kind in North America, contains nearly 2 million items supporting instruction, research and outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and around the world. The collection has been at UW-Milwaukee since 1978, and through the years, the collections have expanded and presently comprise items including maps, atlases, books, journals, pamphlets, photographs, slides, Landsat images, and digital spatial data. 

Georgia Brown, Public Services Librarian, will begin our tour with a presentation on the resources in the AGS Library, followed by time to browse materials on display having genealogical research significance such as old maps and gazetteers. Come armed with any geographical questions you may have. A short business meeting will precede Georgia’s presentation.

American Geographical Society
Library at UWM Libraries, Third
Floor, East Wing
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2311 E. Hartford Avenue,
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Campus Parking:  Please allow yourself extra time when visiting. Our visit coincides with spring break, and on street parking may be available. There is no free parking on campus. The university's Modii app can provide you up to the minute
parking accessibility information.
 

 

 

 
More Information at MCGS Genealogy Classes webpage. 

 

Ask a Genealogist!

 

Presented by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society and Milwaukee Public Library

 

 

 

Milwaukee Central Public Library Downtown, 814 West Wisconsin Avenue

 

 

Milwaukee Central Public Library Downtown, 814 West Wisconsin Avenue

 

 

 

In this illustrated talk, historian and genealogist Reed Perkins will show how he combines genealogy with a wide variety of other historical sources to make informative, illustrated stories that serve as a great way to organize and share one’s ideas, and guide further research and discovery.

 

Reed Perkins has a life-long love of history and a passion for separating fact from legend. In 2006, he began focusing his research on a some of his Wisconsin ancestors and their stories. In 2012, he began an ongoing collaboration with the newly-formed Jonathan Clark House Museum in Mequon, Wisconsin, and shortly afterwards became the museum’s official historian, As Historian, Reed investigates and shares the family histories and activities of the Clarks, their relatives, neighbors and friends, and the day-to-day details of the world in which they lived. Since 2016, he has chronicled those stories in over 450 illustrated and annotated posts to his blog, Clark House Historian. Along the way, Reed has become unexpectedly well-informed on a number of more specialized topics including the first Erie Canal, early Great Lakes steamboat travel, the settlement of Lower Canada’s Eastern Townships, the California Gold Rush, army life at Forts Howard and Winnebago, and early federal and local road construction in Wisconsin Territory.

 

Reed holds a Bachelor of Music from Miami University (Ohio), and a Master of Music from Northwestern University, and has extensive post-graduate training as an orchestral conductor in the U.S. and overseas. He has worked with orchestras, ensembles, and theater companies in a half-dozen states as well as in Italy and Czechia. Reed has taught music history, music theory, and conducting at the College of William & Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. His attention to detail and knowledge of 18th- and 19th-century American and European concert and vernacular musics—and their accompanying political and cultural contexts—also informs his study of the lives of American immigrants, settlers, and the early history of Wisconsin territory and state.

 

Reed was born and raised in the Land of Lincoln, and has had the good fortune to live and work there, and in other history-rich places such as Williamsburg,Virginia, and Amherst, Massachusetts. He now lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with his wife, Dr. Laura Rexroth.

 

Reed Perkins’ website: Clark House Historian https://jchmhistorian.com/

 

His blog postings incorporate primary and secondary sources, public-domain visual images, and links to other CHH blog posts and additional—sometimes obscure—sources, all to tell a more complete and interesting story of the life and times of our early Wisconsin pioneers.

The Jonathan Clark House website: https://jonathanclarkhouse.com/

 

 

 

 

 
More Information at MCGS Genealogy Classes webpage. 

 

Ask a Genealogist!

 

Presented by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society and Milwaukee Public Library

 

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