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Nice to See MHGS Open Again – April 6, 2021

I mentioned yesterday – MHGS Re-opens Tomorrow – April 5, 2021. the society was re-opening today It was nice to be back at MHGS http://mhgswichita.org/ as I hadn’t been since probably before Thanksgiving week-end. We had many of the regular volunteers show up. We had a few new guests show up. They were looking for more information on the grandparents. People were wearing masks, aside from when we…

MHGS Re-opens Tomorrow – April 5, 2021

MHGS, Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, http://mhgswichita.org/ re-opens tomorrow. They have been mostly closed since early December. They were briefly opened as needed for drop-in. Starting tomorrow, it will open Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 AM – 4 PM.

First Time Back at the Genealogy Society in Months – June 27, 2020

Think it was early March the last time the society was open regular hours. They started opening for people who needed access a while back on as needed basis. They went with opening two hours/day on the days we are open – Tuesdays and Saturdays the beginning of June. This was my first time back since they did the re-opening.

Was good to be back. Not a whole lot going on, but it was nice to see…

Interesting Find in Wichita Marriage Certificates Today at MHGS – February 29, 2020

In this post, Well Done Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society – January 4, 2020, I congratulated MHGSfor finishing the 210,000 marriage record scans. The work is under way to index each of the volumes. They have been using a good OCR program which speeds up the indexing a lot. Today, one of the volunteers noticed a woman who had two marriage applications within a week in 1971. A bit more…