*RESCHEDULED* Potluck Supper Meeting
2019-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Western Illinois Museum, 201 S Lafayette, Macomb, IL, 61455
Please join us for our Annual Potluck Dinner! Note the special early start time.
Topic/Speaker: TBA

General Meeting
2019-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Western Illinois Museum, 201 S Lafayette, Macomb, IL, 61455
Please join us for our General Meeting
Speaker/Topic: Dr Tim Roberts, professor of history at Western Illinois University, will discuss the Military Tract System in McDonough County and how it helped our ancestors settle the area.
Dr. Tim Roberts

40th Anniversary Celebration & Open House
2019-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Western Illinois Museum, 201 S Lafayette, Macomb, IL, 61455
Join us to celebrate our 40th Anniversary. We will be honoring our volunteers that keep our society going. Browse our Center’s resources while you enjoy cake and ice cream!
Open House 7pm-8:30pm

100th Anniversary of Oakwood Cemetery Mausoleum
2019-05-30 18:00 - 20:30 | Western Illinois Museum, 201 S Lafayette, Macomb, IL, 61455
In conjunction with the Western Illinois Museum and Friends of Oakwood, we invite you to a 2 part celebration of the Oakwood Cemetery Mausoleum’s 100th Anniversary
Thursday, May 30 – 6:00 p.m. Library Open for Tours
The McDonough County Genealogical Society Library will open its doors for you to see what is available for your use in discovering your family history. Members will be on hand to show you the holdings.
7:00 p.m. Part 1 — History Program with featured speaker John Hallwas about cemetery celebration of the past and Oakwood in specific. Chad Sperry of the WIU GIS Department will teach us how they have added modern GPS to cemetery databases for viewing anywhere in the world. View the MCGS’s photograph and obituary resources.
John Hallwas, Author & Historian
Program 7pm, May 30th 2019 at the Western Illinois Museum
(NOTE: This will be in lieu of our regular monthly meeting)
Part 2 — Tour the Oakwood Mausoleum June 1 2019 Time TBA

Sept. 16 General Meeting features author Mary Kerr
2019-09-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Western Illinois Museum, 201 S Lafayette, Macomb, IL, 61455
Our September general meeting will feature award-winning author, Mary C. Kerr and her new book, “WWII Camp Ellis: Homefronts and POWs”.
Monday, Sept. 16
7:00 p.m.
Western Illinois Museum
201 South Lafayette
Macomb, IL 61455
Mrs. Kerr’s previous book, “Washington’s Homefront and the POWs” was a 2017 Illinois Historical Society Award winner.
Meetings are open to the public and free! Please come and bring a friend to hear this fascinating story about the WWII Army camp based in Fulton County which housed over 44,000 soldiers.

Closing during Christmas season
2019-12-04 08:00 - 17:00 | IL
The McDonough County Genealogical Society will be closed Monday, December 23, 2019 through Thursday, January 2, 2020 so our volunteers may spend the Christmas season with their families and friends.
We will reopen on Friday, January 3, 2020 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) to help you continue your research to find those elusive relatives!
Remember, our collection of books is vast and we offer some publications you are unable to find anywhere else. Come in and see us!

Join us for our FIRST General Meeting of 2021! Monday, June 20 at 6:00 pm
2021-06-03 08:00 - 17:00 | IL
The McDonough County Genealogical Society is thrilled to announce we will have our first post-pandemic General Meeting. We thought it was very appropriate to kick it off with an ice cream social! Bring yourself and your appetite for some dessert, ice cream and fun.
Our speaker of the night will be Allen Nemec, who has recently completed a re-edit of Alex Holmes’ columns about Macomb from the early 1900s. The new Alex Holmes book is currently available for purchase and you can pick one up that night! Hurry, they are going fast.
See you then for a PARTY!
