ABOUT US
The Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society (NWIGS) was officially organized on April 25, 1970. You can learn about the History of NWIGS here. Our contact information can be found here.
General Meetings are held the third Saturday of each month; location varies.
Executive Board meets the first Monday of each month at 7:00 pm at IHOP restaurant in Merrillville, Indiana. If there is a holiday on the first Monday of the month, then the board convenes on the second Monday of the month. Anyone is welcome to attend the board meetings. If you would like to have something added to the agenda of the meeting, then please contact Marlene Polster 72 hours before the meeting.
TWIGS, our bi-monthly publication, is posted in our online archives to each dues-paying member six [6] times per year: July, September, November, January, March, and May. [Membership in NWIGS].
Back issues of TWIGS are available for purchase for $1.00 each.
Queries published in TWIGS are free to members and non-members, with members having priority over space.
Solicited for publication in TWIGS: marriage, birth, death records; abstracts of wills; historical articles; books for review; news of genealogical groups; information of interest (please send to the Editor by the 10th of the month before publication).