On Monday, August 4th, 2008, we had a visit from Mr. Victor Schreiner and his wife Crystal and Dr. Christoph Jopen and his wife Cornelia.  Mr. Schreiner is the city manager of Bohlsbach in Baden, Germany and Dr. Jophen is a sub-mayor of Offenburg, also in Baden.  Bohlsbach is Ste. Genevieve's Sister City.  There was a public reception for our visitors at the Interpretive Center.  Here are some photos.  If anyone has anything to add, please let me know. 

Click on an image to view it larger.  To navigate, hover near the top right or left for previous and next links.  To close, click off the image somewhere else on the page.

I know I have been really behind on things again lately, but today is the day I'm trying to catch up.  I've gotten my Ste. Genevieve email box down to 12 from a million and one.  :)  Some more updates:

-- Full transcription of St. Joseph's Catholic Church Cemetery (Zell) has been added, thanks Scott Reed for the transcription

-- A mistake was fixed on the Old Stone Cemetery page

-- Lots and lots of surname submits added.  If you haven't searched in a while, take a search (see above right) for your surname and see if someone else researching that name has been added!

I'm not sure what else I have to do now but I'm going to go read all the posts that have been added to the discussion board lately.

Ehhh, the random Flickr images at top left seems to just be showing random images from within the last 2 weeks.  I'm not sure why that is, I can't seem to figure it out yet!!

Kaskaskia Under the French Regime
Natalia Maree Belting

I'm currently at the library and we are looking at this book - what a great find!  This book is full of information on Kaskaskia and full of parish records and other gems of genealogical information.

There's a wealth of info, please check out the amazon.com page for more information on the book: Kaskaskia Under the French Regime

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Well, I'm finally doing it.  Finally telling you all about a little photographic tour of Ste. Genevieve.  Visit the following link to go to a map where you can find photos I've taken and plotted.

Tour Ste. Genevieve  

It's a bit hard to explain how this map works,  but I think that if you play around with it a bit you can hopefully find some interesting things.  Note the pages up in the left hand area.  Flip through pages (currently there are three) to find more photos.  Photos are organized partially by date, so as you flip through the pages, the plots on the map will change.  Zoom in (use the zoom thing to the right or double-click on the map in an empty spot to go in a level) and the plots will get more and more specific.  For instance, if you see a plot that says there are 30 photos in a certain area, but zoom in one level, that might split into two plots worth 19 and 11 and so on.  In fact, here's a link that should take you to the heart of downtown, zoomed in all the way.

In fact, play around and feel free to search other locations if you are interested or click to find photos from people other than me! 

I have created a public calendar to show events for the Genealogy Group as well as other Ste. Genevieve related events.  To visit, please click here: Ste. Genevieve Events Calendar.

Also, if you already use Google Calendar or have a Google account, let me know so I can authorize you to add events, too!  See the contact link on the menu bar to send me an email, please include your email address that is associated with your Google account.  You can also click on the subscribe link at the bottom right to have the events automatically added to your calendar as well!

Note that you DO NOT have to sign up for anything to view the calendar as it is shared with the public!

Hopefully this will help me keep things updated better since I can add to it easily from within my own personal and business calendars.  It's great having everything in one place.  ;-)