Speakers to discuss genealogical records

The Oklahoma Genealogical Society will feature two researchers during its April 2 meeting at the Oklahoma History Center. Steve Beleu and Marilyn Nicely will present “Genealogical Resources from Federal Publications: Rebellion Records, Serial Set, Military Registers, and More.”

Beleu has worked at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries since 1979 as the federal government information librarian. His specialty is training about census data and other federal agency data, American Indian and Alaska Native resources and websites, foreign trade data, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention family of websites.

Nicely, retired from the University of Oklahoma Law School Library, worked at the OU Law Library for 39 years. During that time she developed a specialty in federal Indian law and some familiarity with tribal law. In the 1990s, she assembled a collection of primary documents and secondary publications into a Web page called the Native American Constitutions and Law Digitization Project http://thorpe.ou.edu

Since 2012, Nicely has been working with Beleu to create the online collection, “American Indian and Alaska Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899,” https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/indianserialset.

The meeting will be at 6 p.m. April 2 in the Chesapeake Room of the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, go to www.okgensoc.org