Get tips on writing your family history Sept. 4

The Elgin Genealogical Society will hold its monthly morning meeting at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the Grove Room of the Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin.

Stephen Szabados will present a program titled "Your Next Step: Write Your Family History."

Were your ancestor's royalty or members of the working class or barely surviving? Whoever they were their memory needs to be preserved. He will discuss a process and format that makes the transformation of your research efforts to writing a family history easier. If we do not preserve these memories and stories of our ancestors for future generations, who will?

Szabados is a lecturer and author who has given numerous programs to genealogy groups and libraries. He is the author of 10 genealogy books and is also a contributing editor for the Polish American Journal. He is a member of Polish Genealogical Society of America, Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society Illinois Genealogy Society and a genealogy volunteer at his local library. He has been researching his ancestors since 2000 and has traced ancestors back to the 1600s in New England and the 1730s in Poland, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The public is invited to attend all Elgin Genealogical Society meetings. The morning meetings are on the first Tuesday and evening meetings the third Thursday of the month. Visit www.elginroots.com.