Genealogical Research Using Railroad Records
The Hand Out will not be available at the meeting but you may download it from here.
Kim will provide an overview of the different types of records or sources that were created by the railroad or the people who worked on them and provide a look at the value these records have for telling us about our railroad ancestors.
Speaker: Kim Harrison
Kim S. Harrison has been doing genealogy since 1974, and in 1998 was fortunate to turn her passion into her vocation. She has had the privilege of working in the library community by representing some of the big online providers of information (Gale, Otherdays.com, ProQuest, NewsBank and Ancestry) before relocating to Arizona.
She is a past president of the Michigan Genealogical Council and the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AzGAB), a founding member of the Grand River Trails Chapter of the DAR (Michigan), and a former WVGS vice president.
During the 1980s she lobbied the National Archives to stop the destruction of the Railroad Pension Application files. Later she wrote a grant for the preservation of the investigation into the Sultana Disaster, which is now available (free) on Fold3. Her most interesting ancestor was Lot Little, a freed slave from New Hampshire, and being able to join the DAR under his service.
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Future Membership Meeting Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2022 | Emily Garber | When It Takes a Village: Applying Cluster Research Techniques |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Pam LaFond | Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Headstones |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Bonnie Bossert | Investigative Genetic Genealogy |
| Mar 13, 2023 | Suzanne Brayer | The Mayflower: An Interesting Mix of Passengers |