Daughters of the American Revolution

We keep old issues of the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine in the Lundberg Collection. Most of our issues date from the '60s and '70s but we do have some dating back to 1929!

These issues have valuable service information about Revolutionary War soldiers and histories from the Colonial Era. They also contain genealogical sources submitted by DAR members which include Bible records, grave transcriptions, wills, and general family histories.

Periodical Source Index

The Periodical Source Index (PERSI) published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index of genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800. PERSI contains more than 2.2 million articles from more than 6,600 journals. In December 2010, an additional 164,000 new article citations will be added to PERSI.

You can search by people, places, how-to's, and periodical titles.

Many of the articles can be found in the Lundberg Periodicals in the Genealogy Room.

Use PERSI at the Heritage Quest Online database, available on the Glenview Public Library genealogy database page. Login using your Glenview Public Library card number.

Chicago Genealogical Society Newsletter

As a member of the Chicago Genealogical Society (CGS), the Glenview Public library has a subscription to the Society's newsletter. The newsletter is separate from the CGS's quarterly publication, The Chicago Genealogist, which is in the Lundberg periodical collection.

Each newsletter lists upcoming events, which are usually held at the Newberry Library. It also includes helpful articles of current interest for local researchers. announcements of new books and collections acquired by the Newberry, and more.

The newsletter is kept in a binder on the Genealogy Reference shelves.

The CGS Weblinks are a valuable resource for genealogy researchers in Glenview.

"The Genealogical Helper"...online...free! Limited time only.

The Glenview Library has a subscription to "The Genealogical Helper." Be sure to stop by the Reference Room, and browse the paper version of "The Genealogical Helper" for interesting and useful information for the genealogy enthusiast. Issues for the current year are kept in the Reference Room, on the Magazine shelf near the Lundberg Collection.

To try the online version for free, follow the instructions below.

FREE ACCESS TO THE ONLINE EDITION OF THE GENEALOGICAL HELPER THROUGH OCTOBER 17!
If you Are interested in Internet research in Germany or the Netherlands, Everton's next issue of "Genealogical Helper" is a must-have magazine! Jeff Bockman details the best sites for finding digital documents, as well as indexes for Germany and the Netherlands. And since the Helper is now online and entirely hot-linked, German research is easier than ever before! The Nov-Dec Online Edition issue will be posted about November 1. To subscribe, go to http://www.everton.com. Costs are just normally $29 for a full subscription (paper and ONLINE EDITION access), or $12 for ONLINE EDITION access only.

The Genealogical Helper is widely recognized as having no equal in terms of amount of total content, educational and research information, and lists of organizations, events, and repositories. The complete magazine is online, and all websites listed in either the content or advertisements are hot-linked.

Everton is offering the Online Edition FREE until October 17 to anyone willing to go to the magazine's website (http://www.everton.com). From now until October 27 the $12 annual subscription fee to the Online Edition of the Genealogical Helper will be reduced to $10.00, and the $29.00 annual subscription fee for the hard copy edition of the magazine (includes access to the Online Edition) will be reduced to $25.00. There are two issues now available for download at the site: Jul-Aug 2008 and Sept-Oct 2008. ENJOY!

(taken from an email from Leland K. Meitzler, posted in "Everton's Newsline" leland@everton.com )