My friend, Leslie Albrecht Huber, will be speaking at the Salt Lake City main library on August 26. The program will be carried live on Radio Station KCPW. Leslie recently wrote an excellent family history titled “The Journey Takers.”
Also note that Leslie will also be speaking at the Salt Lake City Family History Expo [...]
Dick Eastman posted a news release stating that Godfrey Memorial Library has a new director. Following is a teaser.
James R. Benn, B.A., M.L.S., is the new Director of Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, Connecticut beginning September 13. He is currently the Coordinator of Information Technology for the West Hartford, Connecticut public schools.
See Dick’s blog for the [...]
Following is an excerpt from an article in the August 7, 2010 edition of the Grand Forks Herald about what can be found in the Grand Forks Room in the Grand Forks North Dakota Public Library.
Would you like to see a 1975 Grand Forks city atlas? Do you have any interest in the yearbook from [...]
OZARK [Alabama] — Tucked behind history books and fiction at the Ozark-Dale County Public Library is a genealogical resource room in which residents from at least five states have traveled to find out more about their families.
Through donations and grants from genealogical societies and State Sen. Harri Anne Smith, the department is now [...]
The following excerpt is from an August 6, 2010 Lansing State Journal editorial. Although the state is hurting economically, breaking up such a wonderful resource, as the Library of Michigan is, seems extreme. Their genealogy collection is one of the best in the country.
The idea of parceling out the library’s functions and holdings never seemed [...]
News from Tulare, California:
Volunteer Marilyn Hanson is glad the Sequoia Genealogical Society’s collection of research materials has made the cross- town trip to the new Tulare Public Library.
The collection is at the end of a corridor that splits the racks, next to the future home of the library’s tutoring center. Those seeking information about [...]
According to a blog posted at Dick Eastman’s site, the Dallas Public Library genealogy collection may be in trouble. Following is a teaser. Please read Dick’s full blog. This is important…
The Dallas Public Library has one of the best genealogy departments of any public library in the United States. Sadly, that may soon end. The [...]
The Southern California Genealogical Society now has a new reader-printer available at the library. It will be up and running by mid-July. The society really has need for two of these machines. They are now accepting donations toward the purchase of another system, costing $4,995 plus computer and monitor. If you would like to support [...]
A New FamilySearch library opens in Riverton, Utah today, replacing 24 smaller Family History Centers in the southern Salt Lake valley. Will this start a trend?
Following is the news release from Paul Nauta, FamilySearch:
SALT LAKE CITY — Whether for seasoned researchers with years of experience, or curious family history newcomers with simple questions [...]
Google has now made agreements with the Austria National Library to digitize their 400,000 out-of-copyright books. This should be of significant help to those of us doing European research. Very exciting! Following is a teaser from the article found at “The Economic Tmes.”
VIENNA: Austria’s national library said on Tuesday it has struck a 30-million-euro deal [...]
A few weeks ago, we displayed our books at Family History Expo’s Immigration program, held at the Masonic Temple here in Salt Lake City. While there, Patty and I took the opportunity to meet for a few minutes with Marianne Ausseresses, who checked the card files for one of Patty’s cousins. It seems there’s [...]
The following excerpt is from the May 5, 2010 edition of the Cherokeean Herald.
After four months of waiting, Mrs. Gonzalez and Singletary Memorial Library head librarian Amy Derrington received the news they had been waiting for: the library received a $60,288 grant through the Tocker Foundation for the digitization of microfilm of the Cherokeean Herald [...]
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg against the Bedford Museum over the sale of cemetery records has drawn in principals from the two largest law firms west of Richmond.
Representatives of the Bedford Genealogical Society, Inc. sued the museum in November. They claim the museum has misrepresented itself as the owner of the [...]
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Melting snow and rain on the roof of the Iowa Genealogical Society building, during the first major blizzard of the winter, has caused a roof collapse. A month ago, the December 2009 eNews had a section dealing with the need for roof repairs, and a [...]
The public service areas of the Kentucky State Department for Libraries and Archives, in Frankfort reopened Thursday at 10 a.m. after being closed since Nov. 13 because of minimal damage from a water leak.
“The damage was not as widespread or severe as we thought during two initial assessments on Friday night and early Saturday [...]
