St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society

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06/09/2026

Hey, it's not too late to join the crew volunteering at the ARC at UW_RF this Thursday, June 11th. SCVGS members will be indexing documents in the ARC collection from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. If you have a laptop, bring it; it's not necessary if you don't. Come anyway and pair up with someone else.
The ARC requires visitors/volunteers to register annually. If you haven't registered in the past year, contact Darcy Boock for instructions and let her know you plan to help out. Darcy will let the archivist know how many will attend, so she can plan the evening's project.
It's actually fun!

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05/20/2026

Reminder: The SCVGS Annual meeting takes place this Thursday, May 21st, 6:30 pm, in the Community Room at the First National Bank of River Falls. John Fassbender will present information on using AI for genealogy after the meeting.
If you'd like to socialize before the meeting, join us at The Nutty Squirrel at 4:30.
See you there!
A shout out to The First National Bank of River Falls for allowing our group to use their fabulous Community Room throughout the year! THANK YOU!

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05/13/2026

Our Annual Meeting is next week! Officers will report on the past year's activities, and members will vote for officers for the next year. Come hear the broad picture of what SCVGS has accomplished this year. NOTE: The Annual Meeting will start at 6:30 pm, so we can hold our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm.
At 7:00 pm, a timely talk from John Fassbender will discuss “Practical uses for using AI for genealogy work, from transcribing and translating documents, to photo enhancement, automatic GEDCOM creation and more.” AI is a hot topic these days, so you won't want to miss this.
Attend the meeting live at the First National Bank of River Falls or via Zoom. The Zoom link and annual reports will be emailed to SCVGS members. If you are not a member, message us through FB messenger, and we will send you the link. Be sure to leave your email address! It's the FINAL meeting of the year.
Come join us before the meeting for supper at the Nutty Squirrel at 4:30pm.

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04/04/2026

Happy Easter! Our April SCVGS meeting will take place on April 16, at 7:00 p.m. Renee Garrick will present, "It’s Your Obituary—You Write It!” Do you like to plan ahead? You’ve written your will. Maybe you’ve even pre-planned your funeral. So... what about your obituary? Instead of leaving it for grieving family members to write in the midst of loss, take the proactive approach! When you write it yourself, it will say what you want it to say.

Teaching English and speech for more than twenty years—along with editing and proofreading for another ten—prepared Renee for another adventure: Personal History. Her passion for preserving family stories, military stories, and inspirational stories, and for weaving them together with your genealogy research, made it a natural next step.

Location: First National Bank of River Falls Community Room; Renee will be speaking in person, and the meeting will also be carried live via Zoom. If you wish to attend as a guest via Zoom, please message us on FB by Tuesday 4/14 so we can email the link to you.

Also, anyone interested can join the group for dinner at the Nutty Squirrel before the meeting (5 pm). We hope to see you there!

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03/17/2026

Remember - our next meeting is this Thursday, March 19th, 7 pm, via Zoom and in person. Paula Stuart Warren will be our speaker. The meeting will take place at the First National Bank of River Falls Community Room. If you'd like to socialize before the meeting, we will gather at The Nutty Squirrel at 5:00 pm for food & beverages.

The Zoom link and handout for the presentation were emailed to SCVGS members today. If you'd like to attend as a guest, message me TODAY. Include your email address, and the meeting link will be sent to you.
It will be good to see everyone again.

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03/08/2026

Hey, hey, hey! Our next SCVGS meeting will be here before you know it! March 19th, 7 pm, IN PERSON and on Zoom. Paula Stuart Warren will tell us about “The WPA, CCC, & HRS Era: Free Lasting Records Boon from the Government." During tough economic times in the 1930s and 1940s, U.S. government programs put many people to work. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Historical Records Survey, and the Civilian Conservation Corps created a goldmine of material useful to today’s genealogists and others. Record transcriptions, courthouse and manuscript inventories, vital records indexes, city/county histories, newspapers, infrastructure improvements, newspapers and indexes, and a bridge you drove over recently. We will discuss many of those creations, some of which you already use regularly, and where others may be found today. We will also discuss online access to more information.
The Zoom link will be emailed to SCVGS members about a week in advance, along with the handout. If you are not yet a SCVGS member (and why not?) you can message us here for the link to attend as a guest. Please send that by Tuesday, Mar. 17th (St. Pat's Day).
The meeting will be held in the Community Room of First Nat'l Bank of River Falls on Locust St. Hope to see you there!!

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