Speaker Profile-Beth Stahr, MLS, CG

Beth Stahr, MLS, CG*

Beth Stahr, MLS, CG is a librarian at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, located equidistance from New Orleans and Baton Rouge. She served as president and treasurer of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, treasurer of the Association of Professional Genealogists, vice president of the Wisconsin Genealogical Council, and first vice president of the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society. She’s an alumnus of the National Institute for Genealogical Research (NIGR) and the Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University. She has taught non-credit genealogy courses through local school districts as well as university continuing education programs. She received the Outstanding Academic Librarian Award from the Louisiana Library Association in 2012. She has written articles and chapters for library and genealogy publications, and has presented at state and national conferences in both fields.

Thursday, 2:30 p.m., T243–“Unscrambling the New Orleans Passenger Lists”

An estimated 550,000 immigrants arrived at the Port of New Orleans between 1820 and 1860, making New Orleans the second most active port for immigration during this time period. In the decade before the Civil War, many Germans arrived in New Orleans and traveled up the Mississippi River to settle in the Midwest. Yet finding immigrant ancestors in overlapping and sometimes missing passenger lists can be challenging. This lecture presents the derivative sources created from the original lists and demonstrates how to use them to search elusive New Orleans arrivals.

New Orleans 1853, Library of Congress

 *CG or Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified genealogists after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.

Speaker Profile-Beth Stahr, MLS, CG