Sigrid Pohl Perry was born near Hamburg, Germany to a family whose ancestors lived in the Lublin, Poland area for almost a century before being resettled by the Nazis to northern Poland in 1940 and fleeing west from the Russian army five years later. She and her immediate family immigrated to Illinois in 1952 while other members of the clan homesteaded on the Alberta prairie or remained in Germany.
Sigrid has worked with archives and special collections at Northwestern University Libraries since 1980 (M.A., Ph.D., NU); indexed Cyrillic, Polish and German parish records for The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe; and given various presentations to SGGEE Conventions on genealogy during the past decade. She also served on the Board of Directors from 2011-2016. She has presented on various archival and history topics at First United Methodist Church and the Evanston History Center.
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