Please submit the following information:

• Date of Event             Tuesday September 23, 2025
• Start Time                   6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• Event Title                  Chuck Pankratz with "Ancestral Diggings: From Pebbles to a Gold Mine”

• Location of Event (Including address)

Kress Family Branch - De Pere Library - 333 N. Broadway  De Pere, WI 54115 - Emil & Gail Fischer Room – lower level

Also, ZOOM link available – email president@bagswi.org

• Presenter Name (If applicable)

Presented by the Bay Area Genealogical Society

• Description of Event (Including titles of talks if more than one presentation is being given)

 Chuck Pankratz with "Ancestral Diggings: From Pebbles to a Gold Mine”

This presentation is about one man, who prior to his interest, knew nothing about his ancestors but who was able to access a plethora of family ancestral records in Bohemia and Bavaria as he stumbled and rumbled his way through seven generations of research, both in the United States and in Europe.

The intent of the speaker is to provide listeners the information he was able to access, with the intention of aiding others in their quest in finding their family's historical records. Via pictures and records, listeners will have the opportunity to journey along with thirty years of research and travel.

Chuck Pankratz was a presenter at the 2024 Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Gene-A-Rama.  He received the 2022 Genealogy-Family History Book Award from the Wisconsin Historical Society for the book, "Pankratz Genealogy: 1217-1940."