Your immigrant ancestors are the foundation of your roots in the US. Our speaker Jacquie Schattner will help us to answer questions such as, Why did they come? What was the voyage like? What ports were used? Learn interesting details of your ancestors’ journeys to their new life here and also how to find emigration, […]

Mary Jane Tonozzi will present “Lebanese Immigration to Spring Valley.” Beginning about 1890, a group of industrious and honest people made the journey from their homeland in Lebanon (now part of Syria) to Spring Valley, Illinois. They turned to what they knew best and became merchants and business men and women. They opened dry goods […]

Laura Kann will present “Italian Immigration and Settlement in the Illinois Valley.” Laura was born and raised in Princeton, has spent 30 years working for the CDC in Atlanta, and then returned to enjoy retired life in her hometown.