The Blue Hills Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. at the Lakeview/Perley Cemetery on June 11. Members will take pictures and document the text of each gravestone. Anyone who is interested in helping with the project may join them on June 11. Take Highway 8 to 2nd Street north, which is between Almena and Turtle Lake, and go about 2 miles to the cemetery on the east side of the road. Bring digital cameras, scrub brushes and notepads and pencils.

The Society has been documenting cemeteries for many years and has a goal to document each cemetery in Barron County. “We have about eight cemeteries left,” said president Gloria Dobberfuhl. “This information can be very helpful in finding family history information on one’s ancestors, so we make it available online and in our Resource Library to the public. Go to www.bhgsbc.org to check if your ancestors’ cemetery has been documented.”

The Society’s Resource Library is open Mondays from 2-5 p.m. and is located at 410 E. LaSalle Ave., Barron, Suite C (enter from the back of the building). The library is free and available to the public.

If you have materials of a family history nature that pertain to Barron County, the Society would be thankful to receive them for preservation. School yearbooks, church histories, town histories, obituaries, family histories, and other records are important resources in researching ones’ ancestors.

The Blue Hills Genealogical Society meets the second Mondays of the month at the Barron Senior Center on N. 3rd Street, with hospitality at 6:30 and program at 7 p.m. The public is invited to these informative meetings.

Three certificate programs are open to the public to apply for in honor of their ancestors. The Pioneer certificate honors ancestors who lived in Barron County by 1871. The Century certificate honors ancestors who lived in Barron County by 1919. And the Junior Family Historian certificate is for children ages 8 to 18 to learn more about their family’s roots. Information and applications for these certificates are available online at the society website noted above. This year’s applications are due to the Society by Oct. 1, 2019, and will be presented at the November meeting.