DRGS Annual Potluck Dinner
Dinner will be at 6:00 pm, Program and meeting will follow at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm
Dinner will be at 6:00 pm, Program and meeting will follow at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm
Member Dale Renaud will speak on St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Ecorse, Michigan. He will give a little history of the cemetery and stories he found researching it. He has been a genealogist for 30 years, 5th Generation Member of St. Francis Xavier Church, and a proud Ecorse boy. Find-a-Grave photo by Sherri Czuchra. The original ... Read more
Join Scott as he brings many of his relics to the meeting and talks about one of the biggest military collections in Michigan.
The shipyard at Wyandotte launched the first iron and steel vessels on the lakes, with innovations that included the first icebreaking hull. Ric Mixter shares several of the hulls launched here, but their memory was tarnished by shipwreck. This includes Alvin Clarke, Sport, SR Kirby, Chicora, Sydney Smith, JR and Tashmoo.
DRGS President Sherry Huntington and member Kathy Clark teach Beginning Genealogy.
He will have pictures on display of the 3 Toy Factories in Wyandotte plus an office on Eureka.