December 2011 Journal
The latest Journal is now available for download (members only). Featured are a Christmas Herring story about the Adolph Buse family, the migration story of the Martin and Roesler families who went to Argentina, and the last installment of the Edith Riske story. If you have general interest family stories or other material that can be shared with the membership, please be sure to contact our editor at editor@sggee.org
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Master Pedigree Database Update
Our Master Pedigree Database (members only) has been updated and now contains over 534,000 entries, up by almost 30,000 since the last report. The total will fluctuate up and down depending on the additions and merging of data that occurs.
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Updated VKP Database
Our VKP Database (formerly known as the St. Petersburg Database) has been updated with new death data for 1886. There are now over 28,700 line items in that part of the database.
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2012 Convention Venue Announced
The convention committee has announced that the 2012 Convention / Conference will be held Aug. 10-12 at the Travelodge Hotel and Convention Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. Click the link above for more detail.
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Volhynian Flour Mill - artistry by member Les Ollenberg
(see our Credits Page for more art by Les)