The Joplin Genealogy Society has closed its research center at 306 S. Wall Ave. and will give most of the materials there to the Jasper County Records Center in Carthage. Shirley Kennedy, society president, said the group can no longer afford to pay rent and utilities on the building it has occupied for the past six years. She also stated, “We’re not dissolving, and at some point we hope to find another space.”
Details may be found on the Society's web site at http://www.joplingenealogy.org/ as well as in an article in the Joplin Globe at http://goo.gl/WkFh5.
