Upper Midwest Genealogy Institute
This is not a PGS-MN event, but we are posting it since it may be of interest to our members who are working on their family genealogy research.
Registration is open for the 2026 Upper Midwest Genealogy Institute, scheduled for August 7-8, 2026. Fondly known as UMGI – it rhymes with “bungee” — UMGI is a small and friendly two-day institute-style program for family history researchers who are ready to advance their research skills.
UMGI 2026 focuses on resources and strategies for 19th– and early 20th-century family history research—with an emphasis on families moving to or through the Midwest. It blends lectures with student exercises that give students an opportunity to apply what they’ve just learned.
Instructors include J. H. Fonkert, CG, Jessica Fontana, and Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG. For more information and registration: https://mngs.org/UMGI-2026. Enrollment is limited to 35 students.
Sponsored by the Minnesota Genealogical Society, UMGI is a live, in-person program at the Minnesota Genealogy Center in Mendota Heights, Minnesota.