Zion Genealogical Society
of Lake County, Illinois
Including Beach Park, Gurnee, North Chicago, Park City, Wadsworth, Waukegan, Wildwood, and Winthrop Harbor

European and US Newspapers and Directories

MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES
May 19, 2025
In person and Zoom
Lecture starts promptly at 8:00. They typically last an hour, with 15 additional minutes for questions.
Presented By: Jacqueline Krieps Schattner

Newspapers and directories may be the key to finding ancestors. Find stories, BMDs, including children births/deaths between censuses. Directories give occupations, place of birth, death and family relationships. They help locate important church records. Emphasis on European records. List of 75 newspapers and directory websites from both US and Europe.

About Your Presenter
Jacqueline Krieps Schattner is a passionate genealogist, educator and author, who has actively researched her ancestors since 1996. Her love for family history began during her childhood, while spending summers and holidays with her grandparents and great-grandparents. Finding herself a little bored, she asked these adults to tell her stories about when they were a little boy or girl. Today, Jacquie is dedicated to preserving these stories and sharing her knowledge with others through teaching genealogy classes at high schools, libraries, and genealogy groups nationwide. She is an active member of several genealogy societies and has written books on her own family history, which are available on Amazon. This year's project will be a book on her mother's paternal family. Jacquie is a retired school secretary, happily married for 40+ years, mother of three children and proud grandmother of six adorable grandchildren. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois and currently resides in Palatine, IL.

How to Join Our Lecture Series

Hybrid meetings are held both in person at the Zion-Benton Public Library and on Zoom.
Accessing the Zoom Meeting
You Must Register to attend this free zoom presentation. Send in an email your first and last name and inform whether you are a member or not, and your email address. Send that email registration to vam1488@gmail.com by the Sunday evening prior to the zoom meeting. You will receive an email back giving you the details to link in to the meeting on Monday. Make sure that you've installed the Zoom software before the event and you'll use that link to join the meeting when it begins.

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