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1385 Mendota Heights Road, Suite 100
Mendota Heights, MN  55120-1367
(651) 330-9312 • info@mngs.org

Advance your research skills at the

Upper Midwest Genealogy Institute

8-9 AUGUST 2025

Minnesota Genealogy Center
1385 Mendota Heights Road
Mendota Heights, MN 55120

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The Upper Midwest Genealogy Institute is a two-day intensive, but friendly, genealogy education program for intermediate and more experienced genealogists and family history researchers. The 2025 UMGI focuses on finding and using records to solve Upper Midwest research problems. UMGI’s Upper Midwest focus includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, and neighboring portions of surrounding states.

CURRICULUM
 FACULTY
  • Strategies for 19th-Century Research                          
  • Upper Midwest Land Records
  • Immigration and Naturalization
  • Finding and Using Manuscripts
  • Upper Midwest Urban Research
  • Upper Midwest Military Records
  • Ethnic Research Resources
  • Finding European Origins
  • J. H. Fonkert, CG
  • Tom K. Rice, CG-retired
  • Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA
  • Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG                             
  • Mica Anders
  • Jessica Fontana

UMGI 2025 is a reprise of the popular MGS “Minnstitute” first offered in 2023. It’s still small and its still in Minnesota, but it’s a pretty big deal, and its about more than Minnesota—thus, the change of name.

UMGI Director: J. H. Fonkert, CG
Associate Director: Elizabeth Gomoll

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