Below are upcoming events that may be of interest to our GIG WI members.

July 13, 2013 Annual Workshop - Save the Date!

The annual GIG-Wisconsin Workshop will be held on July 13, 2013 at UW-Whitewater. Roger Minert, who has more than 35,000 hours in research experience, will be the featured speak er. Accredited by the Family History Library for research in Germany and Austria, in August 2003 Minert became a professor of family history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of more than 80 books and articles.

Put Saturday July 13, 2013 on your calendar now for this Workshop held at UW-Wisconsin's campus in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Germanic Genealogy Society - 2013 Spring Conference

Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Luther Seminary, Northwestern Hall, 2481 Como Ave, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

For more information on this event, please visit: http://www.ggsmn.org

Beloit College German Film Festival

Beloit College's German Club is sponsoring a German film festival this spring. The film series is sponsored by the college's Modern Languages and Literatures, History Department, History Club and German Club. The next film showing is:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Die letzten Tage) (2005)
April 5, 2013, 7 p.m.
Richardson Auditorium, Morse-Ingersoll Hall, Beloit College
115 minutes

The Internet Movie Database describes this film as "A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426578/