Society Meeting at 9:30 a.m.
Program: The Untold Story of the Orphan Trains

Saturday, February 18th at 11:00 a.m. CT
At Jefferson County Library, Northwest Branch in High Ridge, Jefferson County, Missouri
5680 State Road PP, High Ridge, M0 63049

The February meeting of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 18th, at the Jefferson County Library – Northwest Branch.

After the meeting, a program starting at 11:00 a.m. will feature a showing of the documentary Abandoned - The Untold Story of the Orphan Trains by Michael T. Keene. The film is about the orphan trains which operated between 1854 and 1929. Orphans were relocated to areas largely in the Midwest in an attempt to give these children a better life. At the time, there was a crisis in the Eastern cities. Over 200,000 orphaned children were left homeless without food or clothing and lived wherever they could survive. The orphans crowded cities until a supervised welfare program relocated them.

Society Meeting at 9:30 a.m.
Program by: To Be Announced

Society Meeting at 9:30 a.m.
Program : A Mysterious Baby, A Brick Wall, A Decisive DNA Discovery A Webinar by Stephen Wendt, MLIS

Saturday, September 16th at 11:00 am CT At Jefferson County Library, Northwest Branch in High Ridge, Jefferson County, Missouri 

Join the Jefferson County Genealogical Society and our remote speaker Stephen Wendt to gain a better understanding of how a DNA match broke down a decades-long brick wall concerning a mysterious baby in the family.

The presentation will also be available via Zoom livestream video conference. No registration is required. If you can’t physically attend the meeting, and would like to attend the online livestream, please use the link below at the appropriate time:

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94095619639?pwd=dzRRSWF2Y2s5VjJYQVBnTVFZYU1TZz09

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