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Meet PERSI, and Discover Treasures in Genealogy Periodicals

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Meet PERSI, and Discover Treasures in Genealogy Periodicals

Learn to navigate PERSI, the Periodical Subject Index, and order copies of articles.

What You Will Learn

You may be missing out on 30% of genealogy discoveries if you’re not digging into history and genealogy newsletters, journals and magazines. Biographical profiles, stories about ancestral churches or schools, how-to tips for researching a locale, indexes and transcripts of local records are all among those treasures. Learn to find and access this content using PERSI, the Periodical Source Index. See how to navigate PERSI on the FREE Allen County Public Library website portal, and success stories that can inspire your own foray into periodical research.

Speaker

Sunny Jane Morton is a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and Director of Content at YourDNAGuide.com. She is co-author of the NGS award-winning book How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records author of Story of My Life: A Workbook for Preserving Your Legacy, now in its 2nd edition. She is past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News and an instructor for GRIP Genealogical Institute 2024 and 2025, and virtual SLIG for spring 2025. Find her at www.sunnymorton.com.

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Meet PERSI, and Discover Treasures in Genealogy Periodicals

13 Jan, 20257:00pm EST1 hour

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Not a Member?

If you are not a member, you can choose to join the Society and attend this webinar for free. You will also have free access to all webinars in the next year as well as access to all of our past webinars in the Learning Library.

If you don’t want to join today, you can pay and register to watch this event.

Become a Member

Whether you are just starting out in your journey or are so experienced that librarians and record clerks know you by name, we offer Kentucky resources and support you can’t get anywhere else.