Iroquois Genealogy Society

11/13/2025

Elizabeth Parker gave birth to a remarkable leader — Ely S. Parker — a Tonawanda Seneca engineer, Civil War officer, and advocate for justice and equality. Tonight, we honor his enduring legacy and the strength of those who came before him.

Join us tonight, Thursday, November 13, from 6–8 PM for “Ely S. Parker: From Exclusion to Admission,” a special panel discussion at The Buffalo History Museum.

Learn more about Parker’s remarkable journey from exclusion to recognition and the continued importance of Native representation in law and history.

🕕 6–8 PM
📍 The Buffalo History Museum
🔗 buffalohistory.org
🎟️ Free and open to the public

03/25/2025

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06/25/2024

FYI. Sounds very interesting.

The Cattaraugus County Museum’s Summer at the Stone House event series continues with a presentation by professional genealogist and educator Jeanette Shelig...

06/25/2024

Check it out!

06/20/2024

Road trip!

Fort Pitt Museum will take visitors on an in-depth exploration of the history and culture of American Indian tribes who once called Western Pa. home inside its new exhibition, Native Nations of Allegheny, which opens this Saturday, June 22.

Created in collaboration with federally recognized Delaware, Seneca, Seneca-Cayuga, and Shawnee communities, the exhibition will illuminate the past, present, and future of the region’s Native tribes with rare artifacts and new scholarship

The exhibit will feature dozens of objects on loan from American Indian tribes – including domestic objects, decorated moccasins, pouches, and contemporary arts and crafts – along with artifacts and imagery from the collections of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Heinz History Center.

Begin planning your weekend trip to Fort Pitt and be among the first to experience this stunning new exhibit!

📸 The Good Hunter, a prominent warrior of the Iroquoian community on the Sandusky River in the early 19th century. The mixed Iroquoian band was removed to Oklahoma in the 1830s where they merged with other Iroquoian speakers, later forming the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of today.

06/08/2024

FYI.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition launches an ever-growing public archive that includes listings of students who attended boarding schools

05/03/2024

IGS will have an information table at the event and will participate in the panel. The speakers presenting will be very interesting. Check it out….

Family History Day at the Central Library is May 18th from 1-3:30 pm. Activities include the opportunity to connect with local genealogy societies, a Q&A panel event and presentations from local researchers. Our first speaker of the day will be Angela Keppel, who works in regional planning and is the author of the "Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time" blog, where she uncovers the stories behind the names of Buffalo streets.

For more information about Family History Day, which is free and open to the public, see our events page: https://fb.me/e/4phiGEo9u

04/18/2024

Take advantage of the opportunity of gathering information from your eldest family members. Future generations will be grateful! What's your best advice for those beginning their research journey?

Begin your research: https://www.ancestry.com

11/23/2023

11/20/2023

We are saddened to hear of our friend, Wendy Bissell’s passing. She was a wealth of knowledge regarding Tuscarora genealogy. She will be greatly missed. 🙏🙏❤️

It is with an extremely heavy heart that we say ‘see you again’ to our founder of the Tuscarora History Society, Yehsenaruhcreh Wendy Bissell. The group began about 15 years ago on Wendy’s front porch, as a book club, we had our regular Tuesday night meeting in Wendy’s living room last week, most of the group was able to be there. She reminded us of the upcoming projects we have, we had a lot of laughs, we usually do! Her son calls it The Hilarious Group 😂 Wendy had a love for the Tuscarora Nation and was quite adamant that ‘we tell our own story our way, thru our eyes’. Wendy welcomed everyone to her house to learn, to share what she knew and for you to share what you know. The group evolved and moved to the Culture Room at the Tuscarora School and has since found a home at the Tuscarora Nation Building. We have hosted several events over the years, Wendy called them ‘the doings’🙂 All in an effort to educate our community, she knew our people have so much to be proud of and wanted to share as much as we could. She told many stories about growing up on our territory, she was so proud to be Tuscarora Turtle Clan. She was the backbone to our group and we will do our best to keep going in a direction that will honor her. As they say, ‘your work here is done, it’s time for you to rest now’. Journey Well Wendy❤️ We miss you already🥰
*picture taken at the Nicholas Cusick Peace Medal Presentation 11/4/2022