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UnChopping Down my Johnson Family Tree
with DNA & Research

by Jeffrey Bockman

         10:30 a.m.

        Saturday, 20 Oct 2018

       NIU CONFERENCE CENTER
5555 Trillium Blvd., Hoffman Estates, IL

This presentation will explain how traditional research, the Johnson Surname Project and recruiting distant cousins for Y-DNA and at-DNA tests are verifying connections. Grandma might have been correct after all!

Jeffrey A. Bockman, lecturer and author of Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy / Record & Preserve Your Family's History, is a contributing editor and writer for the former Everton‘s Genealogical Helper, the Digital Genealogist, Heritage Quest Magazine, FGS Forum and more.    

Coming in November

WWI Gen. Charles G. Dawes 
and Holiday Potluck

by RJ Lindsey

         10:30 a.m.

        Saturday, 17 Nov 2018

       Schaumburg Township District Library

Gen. Charles Dawes: the 100^th Anniversary of WWI

Come join CAGGNI for its traditional Holiday potluck and special presentation.

On the 100^th anniversary year of the conclusion of the Great War, Chicago actor RJ Lindsey portrays WWI Gen. Charles G. Dawes, narrating a slide program detailing European royal families’ lineage, their politics and alliances that plunged the world into the Great War. With animated battle maps, Dawes examines major Western Front battles including the critical American victories. The general relates stories of several important political and military participants who will return for WWII.   

With a repertoire of 17 historical characters, RJ Lindsey has been presenting programs for 35 years. From England to Israel and across the United States, history has come alive.