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2025-2026 Webinars published

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This season’s events are published.

Our calendar page displays this year’s events. All events are free to members and non-members. Below is a list of events.

The complete list is available here: https://delgensoc.org/events/calendar-of-dgs-events/

Members can register by logging in to their account and clicking the “Register Link” or by using the links provided in the Newsletter.

Event DateSpeakerEvent
09/20/2025Joseph SullivanForgotten Family: Pauper Records and Genealogy at the Delaware Public Archives
10/18/2025Julia A. Anderson, MA, AG®, AGL™Beyond the Brick Wall: Strategies for Pre-1850 U.S. Research
11/15/2025Kate Penney HowardColonial Origins and DNA
01/17/2026Shannon Combs-BennettThe American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress
02/21/2026Michael L. Strauss, AG.A House Divided: Research in the Civil War. Part I
03/21/2026Michael L. Strauss, AG.A House Divided: Research in the Civil War. Part II
04/18/2026Annette Burke Lyttle, CG®Reconstructing the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors
05/16/2026Yvette Hoitink, MLitt, CG®, QGHand-written Text Recognition: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Transcribe and Search

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Website improvements

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Major updates

Hopefully, you will enjoy the updates we implemented over the weekend. All of the major updates have been completed, but we are still making other tweaks. This is a list of some of the changes; more to follow.

  • Changed DGS Logo
  • Change font and colors within the website theme
  • Easier to read content pages
  • The menu bar is always available at the top of the page
  • The menu bar will change for logged-in members for easier access to member items
  • Calendar page – Members logged in will see the special Zoom webinar registration links for members only
  • Calendar page – Non-members will display the Eventbrite link to register for the webinars
  • and others….

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DGS News

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We recently informed our Members about changes to our image and logo in the September Newsletter. Over the coming weeks, you will notice updates to our website. We have been working diligently to improve web pages and simplify the menu for a better user experience.

We value your feedback, so please share your thoughts with us!

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Remembering Farnhurst

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Stories from the Delaware State Hospital 1894-1920

Members of several DGS teams have worked with the author Katherine Dettwyler to bring this information to you.

Remembering Farnhurst

Overview:

This book, Remembering Farnhurst, published in 2019, includes a detailed look at the lives of 186 patients admitted to the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst between 1894 and 1920. Despite usually being thought of as having been simply a “mental hospital” or “lunatic asylum,” the institution cared for people with many different conditions. From brain injuries, syphilis, epilepsy, and schizophrenia to deafness, blindness, and age-related senility, a wide variety of conditions were treated because, at a time, there were few or no other options for care.

The Author:

Katherine Dettwyler

DGS Searchable Name Index:

The DGS website has a searchable Name Index. The table is searchable with a list of names with the page numbers on which they appear in Remembering Farnhurst.

The Rememberg Farnhurst page with the searchable Name Index can be found by clicking this link.

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