Randy Couri will be the guest speaker at the Peoria County Genealogical Society on September 12th at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Peoria Public Library North Branch at 3001 W. Grand Parkway.. Randy is a historian and genealogist for the Peoria Itoo community and for his ancestral village of Aytou, Lebanon. Randy will share his expertise on how to search for Ellis Island Manifests. He will discuss the difficulties involved in finding the manifests, and how to interpret the information found on each page.Manifests were filled out not at Ellis Island, but at the immigrants’ ports of departure. From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island. Call for more info at: 309-697-4518.