Monthly Feature

Saturday, July 13 @ 9:30am

Join professional genetic genealogist Mike Maglio as he guides us through a process using autosomal DNA to identify biological parents and missing family tree links. He will explain that it takes traditional genealogy, DNA and a little detective work to help an adoptee find their biological parents.

Friday, June 14, 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Telling the Irish American story through one family’s history

Mary Pat Kelly will discuss her research in preparing and writing write the best-selling trilogy of historical novels on the Irish American experience Galway Bay, Of Irish Blood and Irish Above All.

“From my great great grandmother’s Honora against-the- odds survival from the Great Starvation through her grandson Ed Kelly‘s rise to power as the mayor of Chicago and political force in the Democratic Party, the trilogy makes vivid the lives of my ancestors in a way I hope illuminates all of yours.”