{"id":4015,"date":"2012-10-16T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:10:27","slug":"unique-state-historical-society-of-wisconsin-resources-shared-at-sc-anniversary-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2012\/10\/16\/unique-state-historical-society-of-wisconsin-resources-shared-at-sc-anniversary-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique State Historical Society of Wisconsin Resources Shared at SC Anniversary Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Special Collections&#8217; 30th Anniversary celebration we are having an all day genealogy and local history extravaganza this Saturday Oct 20.&nbsp;&nbsp; For those of you interested in genealogy, or if you&#8217;re just looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacationsmadeeasy.com\/WisconsinDellsWI\/eventCalendar\/SpringBreakinWisconsinDellsWI.cfm\">things to do in Wisconsin Dells<\/a> this October, you&#8217;ll want to make sure you come hear about the amazing resources available just a short distance away at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.&nbsp; George Findlen, a long-time genealogist and volunteer at the SHSW will present a program about researching at the SHSW.&nbsp; The second program Mr. Findlen will present will be on the Draper Manuscripts &#8211; a vast collection of primary source genealogical research materials held by the State Historical Society.&nbsp; If you attended the Quad Cities Genealogy Conference in April of 2012 you heard just a small preview of what is available in the Draper Manuscripts &#8211; now you can hear the rest of the story!<\/p>\n<p>The programs are free and open to the public with no registration required.&nbsp; Doors open at 9:30AM with the first presentation beginning at 9:50AM.&nbsp; Stay for awhile or for the entire day.&nbsp; Afternoon programs will including screening of historic local film footage, a program on Davenport and Iowa Civil War Camps and the first public showing of a recently restored rare 1857 map of Davenport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Special Collections&#8217; 30th Anniversary celebration we are having an all day genealogy and local history extravaganza this Saturday Oct 20.&nbsp;&nbsp; For those of you interested in genealogy, or if you&#8217;re just looking for things to do in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2012\/10\/16\/unique-state-historical-society-of-wisconsin-resources-shared-at-sc-anniversary-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-12L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/10101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}