Douglas County Genealogy Club

Douglas County Genealogy Club The Douglas County Genealogy club was formed to promote genealogy within Douglas County. Our Mission is to educate about genealogy.

The Douglas County Genealogy Club meets monthly.

Attention TPGS Members:The start of our 2026/2027 program year is the September 9th meeting. See details below, and it's...
08/29/2026

Attention TPGS Members:

The start of our 2026/2027 program year is the September 9th meeting. See details below, and it's open to the public, so bring a friend!

Using Full-Text Search at familysearch.org

Wednesday, September 9⋅5:30 – 8:00pm

Family History/Research Center, 521 Upham Rd, Duluth, MN, 55811

Local family history enthusiasts are invited to the LDS Family History Center to hear Brenda Gilbertson, Center Coordinator, discuss and demonstrate the familysearch,org use of Full-Text Search, primarily used on its non-indexed record sets. A reminder from Ms. Gilbertson asks that you have your familysearch.org User Name and Password if you would like to practice using Full-Text Search on the Center's computers that evening. The public is invited to this, our first Twin Ports Genealogical Society meeting of the 2026/2027 Program year. Doors open at 5:30, with presentation beginning at 6 PM.

Use our free family trees & records to uncover your past

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/chicago-national-archives-closure-will-be-loss-for-historians-researchers-even-d...
08/28/2026

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/chicago-national-archives-closure-will-be-loss-for-historians-researchers-even-deep-sea-divers/ Such a shame! We have billions for the Felon's war of choice, and for his ego projects of gold, but not to save the history of our country. ---While it’s unclear whether the latest closure has a political undertone, archivists have long complained that the federal government has not adequately funded the archives. That funding supports the infrastructure protecting delicate records as well as the digitization of physical documents, a complex process that involves scanning records and then tagging the data so that researchers can find the information online.
“NARA has been chronically underfunded for decades,” said Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association, the largest professional organization of historians in the world. “When Congress is not providing enough funding to support that infrastructure, to support digitization and to support the staff whose expertise is required to process records, you are necessarily going to have an archives that is not performing at its full capacity.”

The closure of the South Side center will take place “over the next few years.” The records and documents will be relocated, but it’s unclear where and how many employees are affected.

From PBS North---A big thank-you to Twin Ports Genealogical Society members Eileen, Kay, Bobbi, and Vickie, who joined u...
08/20/2026

From PBS North---A big thank-you to Twin Ports Genealogical Society members Eileen, Kay, Bobbi, and Vickie, who joined us for our August Live Night and helped answer calls from viewers supporting PBS North.

The Twin Ports Genealogical Society helps people research and preserve their family histories through educational programs, cemetery clean-up and grave-recording projects, local databases, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about researching your family history, the Society will be offering Genealogy 101 classes this spring. We appreciate them sharing their time with us.

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07/06/2026
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07/02/2026

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Nearly 250 years after he died in the Battle of Camden, researchers identified Pvt. John Pumphrey as one of more than a dozen Continental Army John Does that were found near the battlefield.

Researchers in South Carolina announced that they confirmed the identity of one set of remains. Pumphrey, whose death was not recorded and whose identity was nearly lost to history, had been from a prominent Maryland family who enlisted in the Continental Army in his early teens. Given his service in the 7th Maryland Regiment, he is believed to have taken part in several campaigns in the nearly four years he fought in the Revolutionary War.

Researchers from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology found the bodies in 2022 after coming across some exposed bones. The Historic Camden museum began studying the site and reached out to FHD Forensics to try and identify the 14 dead. It was determined that 13 were Americans while the 14th was British. According to the Baltimore Sun, a skull fragment — which turned out to belong to Pumphrey — had a strong DNA sample. That, with genealogical databases, gave the researchers leads. Records from the area also helped to narrow the identity of the deceased, leading to Pumphrey. The young private joined the Continental Army at around 14 in 1777.

It took “incredibly complicated research to go all of the way back to the colonial era,” FHD Forensics President Allison Peacock said at the event. Pumphrey himself didn’t have descendants, but researchers were able to trace the co**se back to him via his siblings’ descendants.

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