Join us for the January meeting of the Fairbanks Genealogical Society, tonight Tuesday January 25, 6pm at the Kilbourn residence. This meeting will also be presented on Zoom.
After the meeting, Wes Potter will present at 7pm, on the “Davidson Ditch”. A pipeline that carries water, for gold mining operations, in the 1920’s.
March 22 is the next meeting of the FGS. We will meet in person at the Kilbourne residence and also on Zoom. The meeting starts at 6pm. Let’s discuss what or who we want to search for when the 1950 Census is released next month. Will a brick wall be taken down? Do you need…
Our next meeting is April 24, 6pm, at the Blanchard Funeral Home, 611 Noble St, Fairbanks, Alaska. The program is “History of the Military in Fairbanks” by Nick Nugent. Meetings are free and open to the public. Refreshments are served. See you there!
For the month of January 2022, the Society has a great display inside the window case at the Noel Wien Library.
Sept 25, 6pm, at the Blanchard Family Funeral Home, 611 Noble St, Fairbanks, Alaska. For this meeting, we will discuss new research insights learned from working on the Cleary Family for the library display. Light refreshments will be served. The Genealogy Fair coming Oct 6 will be discussed and planned. More information is forthcoming.
Our February program will be “George C Thomas Memorial Library and other Northern pre-1940’s Libraries”, by Aldean Kilbourn. Libraries have existed in the North since the early days of the Gold Rush, both in the Yukon and in Alaska. Libraries from Outside were asked to send their worn-out books, but without exception, there was hunger…
How much do you know about the construction of the Alaska Highway? Living at the end of the Alcan in Delta Junction, I thought I had a pretty good bead on it’s back story. But then I stumbled on a photograph that took me on a journey of discovery about details surrounding building the highway…
