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Genealogy Club

How Advertising Lead Our Ancestors to the Midwest (Online)

Business owners, land speculators, and communities wishing to grow all turned to various forms of advertising to entice people to migrate to the Midwestern territories and states.

Genealogist Annette Burke Lyttle will show you how newspaper advertising, pamphlets, gazetteers, and books were aimed at prospective migrants from the eastern parts of the U.S.  In this lecture, you'll learn how advertisements lured prospective immigrants from Europe to get them to come and work, buy land, and settle sparsely-populated frontier areas. We’ll look at what kinds of messages these ads used to make hard work and pioneer living seem attractive.

This program is available in a Zoom webinar format. A link and handout will be sent a day before the event. A reminder will be sent an hour before the event.

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