The Northern Waters Genealogical Society invites you to their next meeting on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 2-3 pm, at the Boulder Junction Community Center, 5392 Park Street. A brief business meeting will follow. A Zoom option is also available.

This month’s program is “Censational Census Strategies for Finding Those Missing Persons” with speaker, Mary Kircher Roddy by recorded webinar. The US Federal census and its “little brother,” the state census, are among the major workhorses of genealogical research. But are you getting the most out of them? This presentation presents 20+ tips for finding missing ancestors and mining the census for more clues for follow-up research.

Mary Kircher Roddy, CG®, grew up in San Rafael, California. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from The University of California, Riverside in 1982 and a Master’s in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas in 1984. She earned a certificate in Genealogy and Family History at the University of Washington in 2005. She was credentialed by the Board for Certification of Genealogists® in 2019.* She is a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and is a former treasurer for the Association of Professional Genealogists. She is co-editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.

Mary became interested in genealogy in 2000 in anticipation of a sabbatical in Ireland where her husband was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick. She was sure she would complete all her Irish genealogy while her husband taught at UL and her children attended Monaleen school. Two decades later, the genealogy is still a work in progress. But the trip to Ireland awakened something deep in her Celtic bloodlines, the Irish tradition of the Seanachi, the storytellers and historians of yore.

This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information or to request the Zoom link, please call 715-686-7339.