Kathleen Boswell grew up in Sedalia and was a big fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder from her childhood. Since then she has collected books by and about Laura and visited several of her home sites and the museum in Mansfield.
In the fall of 2018, she gave her first hour-long performance as Laura to a packed house at the Katy Depot in Sedalia. She has also created several shorter presentations, including ones for school children, churches and women's groups. She will also give a presentation on Friday, 8/9 at the State Fair Museum on the fairgrounds in Sedalia. Kathleen portrays Laura in 1947, when Almanzo was still alive and she knew her books were being reprinted with the artwork of Garth Williams, and that translations of the books had begun with German and Japanese.

Linda McCarty takes Census records research to the next level! Learn new information, expand your knowledge. You will learn something new even if you have used Census records extensively. Linda spoke at MoSGA and received great reviews from attendees including experienced researchers!

Bio - Linda is the editor of the MoSGA Journal.  Her interest in family history reaches back to her childhood years as she listened to her grandfather's tales of growing up on the (occasionally) lawless frontier of Nebraska.  In addition to her own family lines, she has researched family history for clients located from Maine to Oregon and Michigan to Texas.  For over ten years, she was the director of a family history center in Jefferson City, MO.