Genealogy Tip of the Day

This year, our main speaker will be renowned genealogist and researcher, Michael John Neill. Michael has been studying and lecturing on genealogy since the 1980s. He is the author of several genealogical works and blogs, and is the creator of Genealogy Tip of the Day, a popular resource providing useful tips to conducting genealogical research and understanding the meaning behind the results.

More Genealogy Tip of the Day

Taylor Moyer is a well-known local speaker who provides engaging and exciting presentations on Native American history and culture within our area. The image above is a sample from the Waterville Historical Society July 2025 newsletter (volume 45, issue 3), in which they discuss a recent presentation he gave to the society. Be sure to check out their article.

Taylor works as the Historic Programs Manager at the Black Swamp Intertribal Foundation and is a certified Historic Interpretive Guide. Taylor will be presenting on the history and culture of Native Americans who resided in the Maumee River Valley at our event.

Losing God in Translation

My Three Lives

Philip Markowicz was a Holocaust survivor who settled in Toledo after World War II, becoming a successful businessman and author. Hindea Sohn Markowicz, his daughter-in-law, has spent her professional career helping others learn about the Holocaust. She is the director of the Ruth Fajerman Markowicz Holocaust Resource Center of Greater Toledo, associate producer of Bearing Witness, organizer of local events such as the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day and Annual Diversity Day, and presenter on the Holocaust.

Hindea will be presenting on some of her father-in-law’s experiences, referencing his book, My Three Lives.

Beyond the Miracle Worker

A Disability History in the United States

Helen Keller: selected writings

Dr. Kim Neilson is a professor at the University of Toledo and is known globally as an expert on Disability Studies and history. She has authored and edited several volumes on Disability History, and is a leading scholar on Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy.

She will present on researching and finding disabled ancestors within our family trees.

Urban Turf ad Ethnic Soil

St. Stephen’s Church and the Preservation of Ethnicity

Hungarian American Toledo

Let Freedom Read

 An Ethnic Christmas Folk Play, From Father to Son, the Abauj Bethlehem

Decision Toledo: Manager or Mayor

Peter Újvági, the “Mayor of East Toledo”, is a retired politician who served on the Toledo City Council, the State House of Representatives, and as a Lucas County Administrator.

He will be presenting on the history of the Birmingham neighborhood, a neighborhood in East Toledo that has strong ties to descendants of Eastern Europeans.