Heather Dodd will present "The Missouri Adoptee Rights Act and Adoption Records Search". Your rights to adoption records and how to access that information whether you are adopted, the descendant of an adoptee, or a parent who relinquished their child.

From the Rhine to the Mississippi: My Family’s Journey to America

In this talk, J.D. Smith, PhD candidate and genealogist, will discuss his upcoming book, which traces the journey of his paternal Schmitt family from Rheinpfalz, Bavaria to the Ohio River Valley in the 1830s. Eight years in the making, this project explores one family’s place in a chain migration from the Pfalz that shaped the American Midwest, especially Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where millions of southern and central Germans settled between 1830 and 1870.

Save the date! Talented actors will portray historic figures that are buried in the Columbia Cemetery. 

For more information, contact Nancy Thomas,  nancythomas@centurytel.net