SGSM members enjoy Tidningen for its educational and interesting articles and images. Although your SGSM membership offers many benefits, members often refer to their SGSM membership as their “Tidningen membership”. Our members know a good thing when they see it and so does the National Genealogical Society (NGS). NGS has announced that they have selected Tidningen as the winner of the 2024 NGS Newsletter Competition for societies with less than 500 members. NGS conducts this competition to honor excellence in newsletters edited by volunteers and published by genealogical/historical societies. It takes talented and dedicated editors like Cindy Wentland (2022-24), and before her Ron Swanson (1997-2021), to plan, organize, coordinate and produce a highly regarded newsletter like Tidningen.

We celebrate this award and thank all the volunteers who have contributed. Besides the articles that some of you write and contribute, there are many functions that need to be performed to edit, proofread and fact-check articles, do page layout, find relevant images, optimize the images, compile upcoming events for the calendar, etc. You might say “it takes a village”. This is even more important now since Cindy will be stepping down as Tidningen Editor at the end of 2024. This creates an opportunity for another member to fill that role as well.

If any of these activities sound interesting, we would love to have you on the Tidningen Committee. Even if you don’t have any direct experience in publishing a newsletter, you might have relevant experience or training, or you could even learn some new skills. If you have any questions or interest in this, please email president@sgsmn.org or go to our Volunteer page for more information.

January 25

How I came to write The Pioneer Woman

Author Lilly Setterdahl will present "How I Came to Write The Pioneer Woman." She will discuss the background of her book, what it is about and how it evolved. She'll give a reading from the book and discuss other material related to the book. Lilly Setterdahl is a native of ...

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March 22

Jan Carlson - Northern Swedish Research (Swedish/Finns)

There are many connections between Finland and Sweden as people moved back and forth over several centuries. Swedish genealogists with Finnish ancestors may feel unsure about how to search in Finnish records. Actually, Finnish records are quite similar to Swedish records; you just have to know where to look. In ...

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