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Friday, October 6
First Friday Program  (Educational Program)
10:00 am to 11:00 am
RCGS Library, 2005 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS
  • Somewhere in Time:  Placing Ancestors in Historical Context
  • Family History is Time Travel: Ancestors are more than Just Names and Dates
Please RSVP to Marilynkirkelie@gmail.com or 831 345-5460 if you plan to attend. 
 


Wednesday, October 18
Photo Scanning  (Special Event)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCGS Library, 2005 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS
 
Bring your photos and your phone/camera - stand and lighting provided.


Sunday, October 22
Monthly Program  (Educational Program)
2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Manhattan Public Library Auditorium, 629 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS
 
How I Solved My Brick Wall:  What Happpened to Kate Scouten? After 1894 Divorce
 
Theresa Wilson will illustrate the story of the disappearance of her great-grandmother in 1894 with pages from the digital scrapbook she wrote about solving this brick wall.  She includes the tle of an ancestor caught in Quantrill's Raid, another ancestor who became a pioneer settler of Boulder County, Colorado, and a great-aunt who mysteriously had all the answers.
 
This RCGS program is free and open to the pubic.
 



Friday, November 3
First Friday Program  (Educational Program)
10:00 am to 11:00 am
RCGS Library, 2005 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS
  • Beginning Scandinavian Research
  • Navigating Scandinavian Patronymics
Please RSVP to Marilynkirkelie@gmail.com or 831 345-5460 if you plan to attend. 
 


Sunday, November 12
2023 RCGS Annual Meeting  (Annual Meeting)
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Manhattan Public Library Auditorium, 629 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS
Plan to Attend the Annual Meeting - Election of Officers - Annual Reports - From 2:00 - 2:30.
 
Program 2:30 - 3:30:
  The life of Mai DeKonza
Presented by author James R. Beck.
 
Feisty African-American Mai DeKonza (1870-1959) faced discrimination, poverty, and disability with an indomitable spirit. When locals shunned her, she initiated correspondence with her Episcopal bishop, W.E.B. DuBois, and any other powerful person she could think of. She enlisted the help of Henry Ford by sending him samples of her essays, books, poetry. The music she composed was performed at events where she felt unwelcome. As a public speaker at political rallies, she decried the shackles of Jim Crow laws in free-state Kansas. She organized concerts and public events to educate the white public about black issues in the years before the modern Civil Rights era. She accomplished these achievements by wise use of her fifth-grade education.  The most painful discrimination came from her church home where she was the only black member. Her ability to articulate and reflect upon the shunning provides us with insight into the black experience in post-Civil War America. 
 
Mai's strong spirit mirrored that of her mother, Elizabeth Lawton (1847-1910). When the Civil War began, Elizabeth was a slave in western Missouri. She marched out of enslavement as a teenager with the help of General Jim Lane and settled in Kansas. In less than two years, she found herself in the violence of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence; she sustained a gunshot wound in the raid that left her disabled and unable to support herself for the balance of her life.  
The perseverance of these two women to find ways of improving their lot in life gives readers a powerful portrait of the human spirit.

This RCGS event is free and open to the public.



Friday, December 1
First Friday Program  (Educational Program)
10:00 am to 11:00 am
RCGS Library, 2005 Claflin Road, Manhattan, KS
  • Using the Research Wiki on Family Search
  • Consider Surname Variations When Researching Your Ancestors
Please RSVP to Marilynkirkelie@gmail.com or 831 345-5460 if you plan to attend.