This is a hands-on workshop so bring your computer or digital device to the workshop to Power Up with FamilySearch. Learn about FamilySearch WIKI and how to navigate it to find your ancestor’s records. Learn to use the WIKI to find the birth, death, marriage, census records, and other genealogy resources for your ancestor. Bring an ancestor’s name, a date and a location to the workshop to search Records in the many collections on FamilySearch.

 

 

I filled out my first pedigree chart in November of 1969. In the 1980s genealogy research was taking a new twist with the advent of computers. I soon was entering my research into a genealogy program I found as shareware and eventually I bought the program called Brother's Keeper. The state of Michigan had built a new State Library and State Archives that was only eight miles from my home.  In 1985 I joined the Mid-Michigan Genealogical Society and attended meetings and my first genealogy conference. Many a Saturday, as my husband and children attended 4-H rabbit shows, I was at the Michigan State Library cranking microfilm machines discovering my family.

 

 

 

 

 

Louisville experienced a golden age of gambling between 1860 and 1885, thanks to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers by steamboat and foot. They played faro, keno, roulette and other games of chance, such as chuck-a-luck. Entire city blocks were devoted to betting. Horse racing and lotteries emerged. Gaming houses became grand palaces, with names such as the Crockford, the Crawford and the Turf Exchange, frequented by famous gamblers like Richard Watts, Colonel 'Black' Chinn and actor Nat Goodwin. Author Bryan Bush offers up these stories and more about 'The City of Gamblers.'

Bryan Bush was born in 1966 in Louisville, Kentucky and has been a native of that city ever since.  He graduated with honors from Murray State University with a degree in History and Psychology, and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Louisville.  Bryan has always had a passion for history, especially the Civil War.  He has been a member of many different Civil War historical preservation societies. He has consulted for movie companies, other authors and coordinated with other museums on displays of various museum artifacts. Mr. Bush has published over fourteen books on the Civil War and Louisville history, including Louisville During the Civil War, Louisville’s Southern Exposition, Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky, and The Men Who Built The City of Progress: Louisville During The Gilded Age.  His had two new publications in 2021: A History Lover’s Guide to Louisville and Bluegrass Bourbon Barons. Bryan has been a Civil War re-enactor for fifteen years, portraying an artillerist. In December of 2019, He became the park manager for the Perryville State Historic Site.