The Next MCGG Friday Meeting is Nov. 7 at 1pm; the Topic: Connecting the Generations through Stories and Oral History Presented by Robert McGarry

MCGG Friday group meets in-person (hybrid) next Friday, November 7, 2025, at 1 p.m.
in the Board Room of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic is ... Connecting the Generations through Stories and Oral History presented by Robert McGarry.

Want to pass on your genealogy to people who just don’t seem interested? Learn to connect with them using stories and oral history to bridge the genealogical generation gap.

Our plan is that our meetings will be hybrid meaning the meeting will be in-person with a virtual Zoom option. The Zoom meeting link (or registration link) will now be found on our Southeast Michigan Genealogy Events Calendar and our Facebook page. The link will usually be added the night before or morning of the meeting. Members will receive a reminder email with the Zoom invite or a reminder that registration is required for a meeting.

New attendees are always welcome.

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LE

PGSM November 15 Webinar on Translating, Transcribing and Summarizing Documents using AI

The Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan's next webinar will be Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET.

The topic is "Translating, Transcribing, and Summarizing Documents Using AI," presented by Thomas MacEntee. 

This webinar is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. PGSM members will receive an invitation. Registration for non-members will open November 1 on the PGSM website.

Learn how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to assist in translating, transcribing, and summarizing a variety of genealogy records. A handwritten baptismal record from the 1800s? No problem. A faded newspaper obituary? No problem. This presentation will cover the best AI platforms as well as how to craft a solid prompt to get you the results you need.

The presentation includes information on what artificial intelligence is and how it works; transcription; summarization; translation; and the best AI platforms. Tips and tricks and a resource list will also be provided.
 

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LE

2026 Calendar to Benefit Ray, Greater Washington and Romeo Areas Societies

The Historical Societies of Romeo, Ray and Washington Townships are pleased to announce the release of their 2026 calendar titled, “A Legacy of Service…To Country and Community.”

 

The calendar is a collaborative effort between the Friends of the Ray Township Library & Historical Society, the Greater Washington Area Historical Society, and the Romeo Historical Society, featuring historical images of local military groups, fire departments, and community organizations honoring their service while celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary.

Calendars can be purchased for $10.00 at various locations including, the Ray Township Public Library, Romeo Arts & Archives Museum, Washington Historical Museum, Ray Township Offices, Washington Township Offices, Jarvis Accounting and Tax Service, Jarzyna Farms Fine Meats and Deli, K. O. Music Studio, Raven Oaks Farm, Romeo Family Restaurant, and Town Hall Antiques. 

Proceeds will benefit the Society in each community where the calendar is sold including the Procter Cemetery Restoration project and the Washington Historical Museum’s electrical upgrade project. The Societies wish to thank all the sponsors whose support covered the costs of printing the calendars ensuring all proceeds benefit historical preservation projects.

Contact the Societies for more information. Friends of the Ray Township Library and Historical Society at RayLibrary.org/RayHistory, Info@RayHistory.org, and 586-749-7130. Greater Washington Area Historical Society at WashHistSoc.org, WashingtonMuseum@gmail.com, and 586-786-5304. Romeo Historical Society at RomeoHistoricalSociety.org and 586-752-4111.

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LE 

AncestryDNA Custom Match Clusters Released Tuesday, October 21

Late this Summer those AncestryDNA users with the extra AncestryDNA Pro Tools received the DNA Clusters tool. We announced the roll out in our July 4th post. There is an Ancestry Blog post on the release here.

Yesterday, October 21, Ancestry released the Custom Clusters aspect of the DNA Clusters tool. You can read about it and how to utilize it in yesterday's Ancestry Blog post. Or in a Support Topics post on Custom Match Clusters. 

DNA Clusters visually presents your matches so you can see these matches as a group showing how they relate to each other -- which match matches which matches. These cluster groups can often be identified by the test taker's grandparent lines and you are able to view these clusters by the test taker's Parent 1 and Parent 2 sides (or Maternal Side and Paternal Side if identified) or view both sides together. The matches range from 65 to 1300 centiMorgans (cM).

Custom Clusters allows the user to focus clustering around a certain match of interest. Up to four "sidekick" matches that are shared matches with your chosen match of interest. You can also customize the centiMorgan range to reflect your expected relationship level with the matches.

If you have the AncestryDNA Pro Tools, play around with the Custom Match Clusters. It will probably be a few days or a week before how-to videos start appearing to clearly explain and show how to use the tool effectively.

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LE 

Vivid-Pix has Family History Month Sale and Starts Holiday Sale with a Bundle

Vivid-Pix is having a few sales. There is the Family History Month Sale and it has started its Holiday Sale. 

The company has grown a bit since we first talked about it at some of our meetings and it now offers a bit more than its two photo correction software applications. Vivid-Pix has bundles for institutions, professionals, and the home-user.

Not sure if the Restore software is for you or a loved one? Come into our favorite library's Local History and Genealogy Room and try the Restore software in-person on the new scanning station that replaced the BookScan station. Or, some of Vivid-Pix's software have free trial periods that allow you to test drive the software (with some limitations) before making a purchase.

First a caution. As we advised last year and during RootsTech, make sure you are seeing the sale pricing you are expecting. If you simply go to the website you may not see the website's sale pricing. You will likely need to enter the coupon code to see the sale pricing in the shopping cart.

 

For the Family History Month Sale, use coupon code FHM2025. before completing a purchase. This code expires October 31, 2025. 

What is on sale?

The Vivid-Pix Restore (this is the software) which provides one-click correction that can be fine tuned with sliders for scanned prints, slides, documents and digital camera images focusing on general photography and restoring faded pictures and documents. The regular price is $49.99 but for the Family History Month 2025 sale the price is $39.99 -- saving you $10. [Note: The lowest price was $29.99 last Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Giving Tuesday for reference.] To learn more about the software, check out the company's website and view the overview and tutorial videos.

The Vivid-Pix Land & Sea Scuba (this is the software) that started it all. This software makes it fun and simple to fix scuba pictures – for any underwater photographer – with any experience level. One-click correction that can be fine tuned with sliders. The regular price is $49.99 but for the Family History Month 2025 sale the price is $39.99 -- saving you $10. To learn more about the software, check out the company's website and view the overview and tutorial videos.

Vivid-Pix Restore and Land & Sea SCUBA are patented image science software (not generative AI) that run on Windows and Mac computers, can be installed on 2 computers, and is not a subscription. Purchase once and the company provides free updates.

Also on sale for Family History Month:

Save $50 on the Vivid-Pix Memory Station Software and Scanner for Home, Library, Community, & Adult Living Locations by using the coupon code.

Note: The Home Edition works for the vast majority of genealogists. Vivid-Pix now has a couple different scanner options besides the original SV600. The additional scanners appear to be feeder scanners which are not good for delicate or fragile photos/documents.

Save $40 on the Vivid-Pix Memory Station Software Solution for Home, Library, Community, & Adult Living Locations by using the coupon code.

Note: Already have a scanner? Then just get the Vivid-Pix Memory Station software and use your existing scanner. 

 

In addition Vivid-Pix's Holiday Sale has begun with a bundle.
The Holiday Caregiver Bundle includes Memory Station Home Edition Software, Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) for Families course, and a pre-paid coupon for a 10-pack of Memory Cards. It is a $319.98 value package on sale for $249.95 ($70 off)  but with Holiday pricing it is $199.95 when using coupon code HOLIDAY2025.

Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) For Families and Loved Ones – Joshua Freitas, PhD [No Certification] Designed for paid and unpaid caregivers, this course provides instruction to implement pRT – as described by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Reminiscence Therapy (RT) involves the discussion of past activities, events and experiences with another person or group of people, usually with the aid of tangible prompts such as photographs, household and other familiar items …”

Memory Station Home Edition Software Patent-pending software, with intuitive interface and large buttons, makes it easy to scan, restore photos and documents, record memories and combine to create stories. (Includes Vivid-Pix RESTORE software.) Reminiscing about life pulls memories from shoeboxes and memory banks. Individual and Multi-generational re-living of yesterday and yesteryear provides connection and understanding through photo-based activities that are fun – and provide social and health benefits. Rather than buying the scanner and the software bundle, this is the software only to install on your existing computer/scanner system.

There will likely be additional savings or sales as we get closer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday so keep an eye out just in case. You can see prior sale prices by selecting the Vivid-Pix Label in the left-hand column to bring up all our posts about Vivid-Pix.

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LE

Good News! MCPL's Local History & Genealogy Local Indexes are Back Up!

updated: This post was updated again October 23, 2025, at 11:02 a.m. A correction was made to the index's update content and brief instructions were added.
updated: This post was originally made, October 21, 2025, at 3:41 p.m. A correction was made to the index's update content on October 22, 2025, in the evening.

We have Good News for Macomb County Genealogy Researchers. 

The Mount Clemens Public Library's Local History & Genealogy Department Local Indexes are back up and running on the library's website.

You will find the Indexes under the Local History Resources under the Local History & Genealogy under Areas of Service. Or use the link to the Indexes page here. 

If you encounter a "refused to connect" error or an unhappy digital page face ...

 

... just refresh your browser page (that arrow in a circle just to the right of the back and forth page arrows) as that seems to fix the burp. (It is a large database index.)

 

The search interface is simple with just two options: Given Name and Surname. You do not have to fill both in -- just entering a surname works.

 

If you want to print the results list, just use your mouse or touchpad to highlight/select all of the results list and then print selection or print selection to PDF or after highlighting/selecting all of the results list copy/paste it into a word processing document.

The Obituary Index does not include additions made after the last time the index database was available on the library's prior website. At this time, the best practice to use the index is to search by Surname only to make sure you get a complete list of results.

Some minor issues are in the process of being resolved but users should be able to get what they need from the index. 

The actual newspapers can be found on microfilm in the Local History & Genealogy Room or some of them can be found digitally on the Digital Michigan Newspapers Portal. We have a post on how to find the digitized newspapers here. 

 

Good luck searching! 

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LE 

MyHeritage DNA Autumn Sale Extended; MyHeritage Announces Whole Genome Sequencing Transition By End of 2025

MyHeritage's Autumn Sale on its MyHeritage DNA test has been extended. It appears the sale now ends October 21, 2025. The autosomal DNA test is regularly $89.

In the meantime, MyHeritage has announced that "The MyHeritage DNA test has been upgraded to use Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS), the most comprehensive method for reading DNA available today. Powered by cutting-edge sequencing technology from Ultima Genomics and processed at the Gene by Gene laboratory in Houston Texas, this upgrade makes MyHeritage the first major consumer DNA testing company to adopt Whole Genome Sequencing at a large scale. The upgrade will deliver greater accuracy in DNA Matching and ethnicity results, and create opportunities for exciting new products in genetic genealogy. Best of all, this technological breakthrough comes at no additional cost to our customers, and with the same strong commitment to privacy that users expect from MyHeritage."

Whole Genome Sequencing is already being applied to most new MyHeritage DNA kits currently being processed at the lab, and will soon become the exclusive processing method for all new MyHeritage DNA kits moving forward.

What this means is: MyHeritage DNA processing is in a transition period at this time where some DNA samples are being processed using array technology and others are being processed with Whole Genome Sequencing. You cannot choose how your sample will be processed. By the end of 2025, all MyHeritage DNA samples will be processed with Whole Genome Sequencing.

The blog post continued, "With so much more information available, this upgrade lays the groundwork for future product enhancements, enabling MyHeritage to deliver more accurate ethnicity results, improved DNA matching, and new genetic genealogy products. However, this revolution will not happen overnight. First, the database of whole genome sequences needs to grow. Then, MyHeritage will be able to, and strongly intends to, re-phase, re-impute and re-match all the data for all existing MyHeritage DNA customers, leading to better results for everyone, even those whose samples were not processed with Whole Genome Sequencing."

MyHeritage will soon allow all users whose DNA was processed using Whole Genome Sequencing to download their extended genomic data as a CRAM file at no cost. MyHeritage is still transitioning to Whole Genome Sequencing. By the end of 2025, all MyHeritage DNA samples will be processed exclusively using this technology.

So, you can order a MyHeritageDNA test kit at sale price but hold off taking/using the test until later this year or when we hear that all test kits are processed using the Whole Genome Sequencing to make sure your test is processed using the new and larger testing process.

Unfortunately, if you took a MyHeritageDNA test before this your test will not be updated to Whole Genome Sequencing. Also, those tests that were uploaded/transferred DNA Data from another testing site cannot be updated because biological material is needed to do the Whole Genome Sequencing.

But at MyHeritage Sale prices retesting if possible could be worthwhile for future DNA developments. 

MyHeritage DNA test kits use the cheek swab method of collection. The swab is easier to collect DNA from elders and those whose spit production is more limited. 

There are two options:

MyHeritage DNA test for $36, plus taxes and shipping. Purchase two test kits and get free standard shipping.

MyHeritage DNA test plus 30-day Complete free trail* for $36, plus taxes and free shipping

*After 30 days, you'll enjoy a 50% discount and be charged $299 $149 for the first year. The Complete subscription renews annually. You can cancel anytime.

Remember, MyHeritage ended its DNA uploads of DNA test data from other DNA genealogy testing sites back in August 2025. So now you do have to test directly with MyHeritage DNA.

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LE 

 

Washington Historical Museum Hosts Program on Erie Canal on Oct. 26 @ 2pm

The Washington Historical Museum located at 58230 Van Dyke north of 26 Mile Road, will host a program on the Erie Canal at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 26.

Patricia Hallman will talk about the canal that brought thousands of people and commercial goods from New England states to the Midwest. A groundbreaking event for the Erie Canal was held on July 4, 1817, in Rome, New York and the project was completed from Albany to Buffalo on October 26, 1825, two hundred years ago.

The museum will also be open from 1 to 4 p.m. for visitors to tour exhibits about military, school, scouting, and local history. For more information, go to www.washhistsoc.org, the Greater Washington Area Historical Society Facebook Page, email washingtonmuseum@gmail.com, or call 586-786-5304 (answering machine).

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LE 

MyHeritageDNA Autumn Sale Ends Oct. 15

MyHeritage's Autumn Sale on its MyHeritage DNA test ends, October 15, 2025. The autosomal DNA test is regularly $89.

There are two options:

MyHeritage DNA test for $36, plus taxes and shipping. Purchase two test kits and get free standard shipping.

MyHeritage DNA test plus 30-day Complete free trail* for $36, plus taxes and free shipping

*After 30 days, you'll enjoy a 50% discount and be charged $299 $149 for the first year. The Complete subscription renews annually. You can cancel anytime.

Remember, MyHeritage ended its DNA uploads of DNA test data from other DNA genealogy testing sites back in August 2025. So now you do have to test directly with MyHeritage DNA.

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LE 

 

AncestryDNA Sale Price $39 until Wed., October 22, 2025, at 10:00 am ET

Ancestry is having a sale on AncestryDNA until October 22, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Remember taxes and shipping are extra. The regular price of an AncestryDNA test is $99.

There are three options with this sale.

Just the AncestryDNA test is on sale for $39.

For new subscribers or those without a current active subscription:

The AncestryDNA test and a World Explorer Membership for $1 has a total sale price of $40.

The AncestryDNA test and an All-Access Membership for $10 has a total sale price of $49.

These subscription memberships will renew at regular prices every three months until you cancel.

*Offers end 22 Oct 2025 at 10am ET. Excludes shipping. Package offers are for new and returning subscribers only and not for renewal of current subscriptions. Limit one $1 subscription per user. Your World Explorer subscription will automatically renew at $99.95 or your All Access subscription will automatically renew at $149 every 3 months until you cancel by visiting your Account Settings or by contacting us. See our Renewal and Cancellation Terms for further details.

See our prior posts on AncestryDNA for the changes in what you can access for your DNA test without an Ancestry member subscription and what you can not. You can see past sale trends by selecting the topic label in the left column of this blog (for example, AncestryDNA) to see all past posts regarding AncestryDNA.

Good luck finding the sales you need!

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LE

Ancestry.com Sale on 6-Month Memberships, Save up to 50%

Ancestry.com is having a site-wide sale! Get up to 50% Off!

We try to highlight what we have found on sale in the genealogy world but may not write a post about all we have seen. Our best advice is if you are interested in a website or product, check on that website/product frequently just in case they hold a flash sale.

Please take note, wondering minds can always click the labels/tags in our blog's left-hand column to see the sales in past years to get an idea of the sales trends for prior years. Click on the desired topic or the Savings tag/label.

This sale ends October 22, 2025 at 10 a.m. ET. This offer is only for upfront paid 6-month subscriptions for new and returning Ancestry members, not for renewal of current Ancestry memberships. Subscriptions will auto renew at list price unless you cancel at least two days before the renewal date.

There are the options.

U.S. Discovery Membership
Access to U.S. records
6-months reg. $119 ... sale $59

World Explorer Membership
Access to records across the globe.
6-months reg. $169 ... sale $84 

All-Access Membership
Access to records across the globe; plus military records on Fold3.com; and articles on Newspapers.com Basic.
6-months reg. $259 ... sale $129

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LE

Finding Your Roots Season 12 Announced for PBS at 8 p.m. -- The Wait Begins!

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. starts its 12th Season on January 6, 2026, on PBS at 8 p.m. Eastern. 

If you can't catch the show Tuesday night, don't worry it repeats on  Wednesday, at 3 p.m. and again Saturday at 5 p.m. It may even end up on your provider's InDemand or similar service.

You can find the trailer on the show's PBS website page, Face Book page or on its YouTube Channel.

It has been reported that the following is each show's setup for the 12th season.

January 6: “American Dreams” – actors Darren Criss (Glee) and America Ferrera (Barbie)

January 13: “Great Migrations” – musician Wiz Khalifa and actor Sanaa Lathan (Love & Basketball)

January 20: “Caribbean Roots” – actor Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) and Delroy Lindo (Sinners)

January 27: “The Road We Took” – actor Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls) and comedian Hasan Minhaj

February 3: “Love & Basketball” – basketball superstars Brittney Griner and Chris Paul

February 10: “Westward Bound” – journalist Sara Haines and actor Tracy Letts (Lady Bird)

February 17: “Family Harmonies” – musicians Flea and Lizzo

February 24: “Artistic Roots” – filmmaker Spike Lee and actor Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked)

April 7: “Song of the South” – actor Danielle Deadwyler (Till) and musician Rhiannon Giddens

April 14: “Rags to Riches” – businessman Barry Diller and actor Kate Burto (Scandal)

Don't forget between 2022 and 2023 we created Genealogy TV Show BINGO cards for you and your family or a viewing party can play while watching. We tweaked the cards so that by version 4 it would work well with both types of genealogy TV shows. The earlier versions tend to work better for one show type or the other. Regardless of which version you use, have fun!

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LE

MCGG's November Meetings -- Join Us!

A reminder about our Macomb County Genealogy Group November 2025 meetings.

MCGG Friday group meets in-person (hybrid) on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 1 p.m.
in the Board Room of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic is ... Connecting the Generations through Stories and Oral History presented by Robert McGarry.

Want to pass on your genealogy to people who just don’t seem interested? Learn to connect with them using stories and oral history to bridge the genealogical generation gap.

MCGG Let's Talk...Genealogy discussion group meets in-person (hybrid) Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in the Local History & Genealogy Room of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic is ... Memories: Just Write Them Down or Talk to Your Family.

Let’s share and learn the various ways to record our memories and how to interview our elders/family members to capture their memories before they are lost.

Our plan is that our meetings will be hybrid meaning the meeting will be in-person with a virtual Zoom option. The Zoom meeting link (or registration link) will now be found on our Southeast Michigan Genealogy Events Calendar and our Facebook page. The link will usually be added the night before or morning of the meeting. Members will receive a reminder email with the Zoom invite or a reminder that registration is required for a meeting.

New attendees are always welcome.

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LE

MCGG Releases its Fall 2025 Schedule -- Join Us at Our Meetings -- Welcome!

The Macomb County Genealogy Group has been meeting for 52 years at the Mount Clemens Public Library.

While our meetings have changed a bit over the years, they still come down to sharing and learning this wonderful hobby of genealogy and family history. We are still hosting hybrid meetings which have mostly worked out though we are constantly tweaking them to make them better each time.

See our Let's Talk and MCGG Friday meeting pages for the actual 2025 Winter/Spring schedule PDF. The image of the schedule at right is just a low-res image. 

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LE

Mount Clemens Public Library Fall Open House & Friend's Craft Show, Sat. Oct. 11

Our favorite library, Mount Clemens Public Library, is having a Fall Open House and Friend's Craft Show this Saturday, October 11, 2025.

The library is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The Fall Open House runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Craft Show runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Enjoy local craft vendors at the Friends of the Mount Clemens Public Library's Craft Show, live music by Lance Steinhafel, and pumpkin painting. Make sure to add a leaf to our Local History room's family tree before you leave!

 

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LE 

This Wed., Oct 8, at 6:30 pm, MCGG Talks About Genealogy Software -- Join Us!

 MCGG Let's Talk...Genealogy discussion group meets in-person (hybrid) this Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in the Local History & Genealogy Room of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic is ... Genealogy Software.

Bring your questions and tell us what you like (or dislike) about whichever genealogy software you use, have used or are considering using. Let's share and learn together.

For several of the genealogy software options with recent upgrades we will be able to "tour" the latest version on-screen.

Our plan is that our meetings will be hybrid meaning the meeting will be in-person with a virtual Zoom option. The Zoom meeting link (or registration link) will now be found on our Southeast Michigan Genealogy Events Calendar and our Facebook page. The link will usually be added the night before or morning of the meeting. Members will receive a reminder email with the Zoom invite or a reminder that registration is required for a meeting.

New attendees are always welcome.

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LE

MCGG's September 2025 Friday Meeting, What Is Going On?, is on Our YouTube Channel for Your Viewing Pleasure

Good News! The recording of our September 2025 MCGG Meeting, What Is Going On?, is now on our YouTube Channel.

This is the meeting where we covered the End of Windows 10, updating devices and new devices, Windows 11, and dealing with OneDrive. We then went on to cover DNA News, Genealogy Software, FamilySearch, Ancestry's Beta Handwriting OCR Transcription, Ancestry Club 1890, and Evidence Explained.

It was a long meeting but important information. In the video description we have included time stamps for the beginning of specific topics to allow you to jump to what you want to hear/learn.

Windows 10 is ending life on October 14, 2025, -- nine days from now. There is an Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers which you can enroll in any time before October 13, 2026, which is the last day (the end) of the program. Enrolling in the ESU does not mean you can not upgrade to Windows 11 if your device supports it. The ESU gives you a sort of "security blanket" and a little more time to make a backup of your device before upgrading or a little more time to backup and make that new device purchase. 

Of course, everything is in your handout for that meeting (for MCGG members) which was sent in a Thursday, Sept. 4 email.

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LE 

MCGG Volunteers Help Patrons with their Research; MCPL Local History & Genealogy Room Volunteer Schedule

For those interested, the following schedule is when our MCGG Volunteers are volunteering in the Mount Clemens Public Library's Local History and Genealogy Room. Days and times were adjusted based on the newer business hours of the library.

MCGG Volunteers are in the room:

Mondays
10 am to 3 pm 

Tuesdays
10 am to 3 pm
4 pm to 6 pm 

Wednesdays
4 pm to 8 pm 

Thursdays
10 am to 3 pm
3 pm to 6 pm 

Fridays
12 pm to 5 pm

Saturdays
Volunteers rotate each Saturday during the school year.

 

As a reminder, the library's business hours during the school year are:

Sunday Closed

Monday 10 am to 8 pm

Tuesday 10 am to 6 pm

Wednesday 12 pm to 8 pm

Thursday 10 am to 6 pm

Friday 10 am to 5 pm

Saturday 10 am to 2 pm (closed during the Summer)

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LE 

Are You a Mt. Clemens Bather Alumni?

Are you a Mount Clemens High School Alumni?

Are interested in sharing your high school experiences and memories? If yes, consider adding them to the Mount Clemens Public Library's Oral History Collection.

If you are interested in being interviewed for the oral history project, please email localhistory@mtclib.org to set up an appointment.
 

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LE 

This Friday Oct. 3, Join Us and Learn about 250 Years: Are You My Patriot?

MCGG Friday group meets in-person (hybrid) this Friday, October 3, 2025, at 1 p.m.
in Auditorium A of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic is ... 250 Years: Are You My Patriot? presented by Lisa Eschenburg.

Did you realize that the United States is celebrating its 250th Anniversary? In case you are inspired to search for a Patriot ancestor in your pedigree, Eschenburg will cover the basics to get you started or restarted on your search. We will cover what some lineage groups are looking for; some basics to know about The Revolutionary War and who fought or supported the war; and the variables that affect where you need to search for your Patriot ancestor.

Our plan is that our meetings will be hybrid meaning the meeting will be in-person with a virtual Zoom option. The Zoom meeting link (or registration link) will now be found on our Southeast Michigan Genealogy Events Calendar and our Facebook page. The link will usually be added the night before or morning of the meeting. Members will receive a reminder email with the Zoom invite or a reminder that registration is required for a meeting.

New attendees are always welcome.

See you at our favorite library!
LE