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NOTE: The presentation will begin at 7pm (Central Time), there will be a period to socialize between 6:30-7:00 pm.

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library. This event is free and open to the public. A recording of the presentation will be made available to CCGS members following the event.

 

 

Please note the location change. For the next few months, we will be meeting in the Archives while there is construciton in the library.

 

The CCGS SIG will be a roundtable for members to collaborate with others on their tough genealogical problems and to learn or improve genealogical skills.

Initially coming to genealogy after a long-held reluctance, now a self-proclaimed lineage "research junkie," Lucinda enjoys solving puzzles of all kinds: lineage research provides never-ending challenges. In 2025 she received approval of a "New" DAR Patriot (one previously unproven for member lineage) – a supplemental Patriot for her – through a quest she started in late 2018 as soon as she applied for DAR membership. Lucinda had been nagged by her sister for years to join DAR. Only well after Lucinda's 2012 retirement did she catch the genealogy research bug when the sisters met to gather headstone information of ancestors living at the time of the American Revolution in central New Jersey. Lucinda was Editor and research helper  for her sister who wrote, designed, produced, and published first a lineage book of their parents' lines, then a lineage book of the sister's husband's heritage. Both books are in the DAR Library and other respected genealogy libraries. The sisters continue to share pursuits through their similar and dissimilar complementary skill sets. Among Lucinda's current 'hats' with Alliance Chapter NSDAR, she travels all around Illinois presenting (with other trained volunteers) about 30 programs annually as a national DAR Museum Outreach Correspondent Docent; she is the State Committee Chair of the American Heritage Committee in Illinois State Organization DAR (2025-2027); she serves as Alliance Chapter America 250! Committee volunteer project manager, Chapter Chair of American Heritage and Historic Preservation Committees, and Co-Chair of the chapter Yearbook Committee. She has won three national awards of the American Heritage Committee creative arts and crafts contest in Drama and Music categories. Having collaborated to create 1787 the Musical, Lucinda continues to write original musical theatre. She volunteers with American Association of Community Theatre and with community theatre groups in east central Illinois.  Lucinda continues her brick wall pursuit for proof of which pair are the parents of her g-g-grandfather, born in the wilderness of northwestern Pennsylvania. Lucinda and her husband (Hart surname) travel to enjoy family reunions; they live in a lovingly restored Victorian era house; their two adult children are gainfully employed; and all their pets have moved on as well.

 

You will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you do not receive a Zoom link within 15 minutes after registering, please check your spam folder.