The next general meeting of the GFGS will be held on Thursday, December 13th, at 6:00 p.m. in the Great Falls Genealogy Library, 3rd floor of the Great Falls Public Library. The guest speaker for the evening will be Eric Sprague, Sexton of the Great Falls Calvary Cemetery, who will present a short history of … Read More
Our first workshop of the season will be held on Saturday, December 15th. The “Beginning Genealogy” workshop will be held in the Cordingley Room of the Great Fall Public Library at 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Jan Thomson will be the instructor. The cost is $5 for GFGS members and $10 for non-members. Please call … Read More
We’ve released the December 2018 issue of our newsletter, The Falls Newsletter. There are two ways to access it: directly from this post or from our Publications page.
Lance Logan and Ramona Boyton-Logan were selected as the 2018 Volunteers of the Year. Lance and Ramona joined the Great Falls Genealogy Society in November, 2017 and immediately made an impact in the Library. Both volunteer in the Montana Room and in the GFGS Library and worked with the George Company records to archivally save … Read More
The Montana State Genealogical Society’s 2018 Conference, in partnership with the Great Falls Genealogy Society, was held in Great Falls on September 20th, 21st & 22nd at the Heritage Inn. The GFGS held an open house on Thursday, with over 60 guests touring our library and holdings. On Friday, five workshops were conducted by Pam … Read More
The Great Falls Genealogy Society is on a mission to collect every yearbook from both Great Falls High School and C.M. Russell High School to add to the GFGS Library collection. If anyone out there has any of the following (in fairly decent shape) and are willing to donate it to the Society, it’d be … Read More
You can now donate to the Great Falls Genealogy Society every time you shop at Amazon.com! We are now registered with the AmazonSmile Foundation and every time you make a purchase at smile.amazon.com, .5% of your eligible purchases will be donated to GFGS by the Foundation. To make this happen, though, you must use the … Read More
Carol Byerly, currently a trustee of the Great Falls Genealogy Society, was selected as the GFGS 2017 Volunteer of the Year for her work in finding and adding missing names to the Society’s George Company index of names. What this entails is going through each record in the multiple boxes of paperwork from the mortuary … Read More
Genealogy is the study of family history. If you are here, reading this post, you are probably researching your own family history. If so, we’d like to here from you. We would like to gather any stories you may want to pass along to us to publish in our Treasure State Lines journal. For example, … Read More
We’ve now added a second index of records from the Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, this time covering the years 1970 to 1979. As we mentioned before, if you find a name of a family member in any of these indexes, please contact us for more information, either by phone or by email. The records … Read More
