Wendy Petersen Bjorn, Executive Director of the Carver County Historical Society, will give a presentation on “The Andrew Peterson Farm:  Past and Present”.  Through her talk, we will find out about the life of a real Karl Oskar.

Kathy Meade will present “Discover What is New in Swedish Research Using ArkivDigital”.  With 600,000 new records added each month, are you taking full advantage of this service?  Are you aware of personal and family histories, newspaper clippings, aerial photographs and local historical society collections?  Find out about new archives and name searchable indexes.

Lisa Huntsha, Archivist/Librarian at Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center and point person on the Swedish-American Newspaper digitization Project will speak on “How to Use Swedish-American Newspapers for Genealogy Research”.  She will guide us along on how to effectively use this resource, even if we cannot read Swedish.