BCHS Museum Curator David Gugerty will speak on "Bureau County's Place in Illinois History, Celebrating 200 Years of Statehood." In tribute to Illinois' Bicentennial year, Gugerty will chronicle events that took place in Bureau County during the early years spanning 1818 through the 1900's. Gugerty will reprise interesting information about special exhibits on display this summer at […]

Our speaker will be Hope Browning. Her presentation is entitled "Owen Lovejoy and the Illinois Anti-slavery Movement." Why did he choose Princeton as his residence? Lovejoy studied law, was a Congregational minister, a Republican congressman from Illinois and a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Hope's Searl and Hoskins ancestors arrived here in 1830 when this area was […]

Michael John Neill will present "How DNA Helped with My Irish Roots."  Michael John Neill's DNA results helped him to pinpoint his Irish connection and to discover additional Irish relatives.  He will discuss how he sorted through his results, determined his likely Irish matches, and located his 1864 immigrant ancestor's brothers who stayed in Ireland.  Along the […]