MoSGA JOURNAL DIGITALIZATION PROJECT

Since 1981, the Missouri State Genealogical Association has published a quarterly Journal filled with information regarding Missouri genealogy. Each of the 106 issues is about 65 pages of family histories, newspaper extractions, obituaries, vital statistics, cemetery studies, data from Missouri court, land, and census records, etc.

The MoSGA Board is currently studying the feasibility of uploading a digital copy of each quarterly issue published 1981-2000 to our website in order to make this important body of Missouri genealogical information available to the world.

The MoSGA Board has been investigating the technical challenges associated with this project. We can create an exact copy and upload it onto our website as a computer file in “pdf format.” Each quarterly issue file could then be read by using Adobe Reader and would be fully searchable using the reader’s search capability. We have uploaded the first issue. Volume I, Winter 1981, Number 1 (I:1)

We are still working on a system that would make ALL issues searchable in a single search effort. If you do not have an “Adobe Reader” program, it can be downloaded free of charge at www.adobe.com .

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The MoSGA Board is actively soliciting the support of all the authors that have so generously contributed to the Journal over its long period of publication.

The Board recognizes that there may be authors who would prefer not to have their contributions uploaded onto the Association’s website. After much discussion, the Board has agreed to honor all such preference by deleting the identified articles from the scanning process.

We are proud to announce
MoSGA’s 2009 Annual Conference

August 7 and 8, 2009
Capitol Plaza Hotel
Jefferson City, Missouri

With Featured Speaker
Julie Miller, CGSM

Julie Miller is a Certified Genealogist with more than 30 years of genealogy experience.  She is a newspaper columnist for the Broomfield Enterprise and is on the Board of Directors for the National Genealogical Society, Association of Professional Genealogists, and International Society of Family History Writers and Editors.  Ms. Miller is the President of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists and Past President of the Colorado Genealogical Society.

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Call for Proposals

The Missouri State Genealogical Association is calling for lecture proposals in preparation for its 2009 Annual Conference, August 7-8, 2009, to be held at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, Missouri.  Lectures should be approximately 50 minutes in length.  Speakers will be compensated $100 per lecture and will receive a full registration to the conference, which includes the Friday night banquet and Saturday luncheon.   Two-hour workshop proposals will also be considered.  Compensation for each workshop will be $200 plus a full conference registration, which includes the Friday night banquet and Saturday luncheon.  

Proposals may be sent by email to mosga@mosga.org or mailed to: Conference Proposal,  Missouri State Genealogical Association, P.O. Box 833, Columbia, Missouri 65205-0833, and must be postmarked by December 15, 2008.