There’s a good article in the April 15, 2008 edition of the Largo Leader about the Pinellas County Genealogical Society, their collection at the Largo Public Library – and my friend, Peter Summers.
Thanks to the Pinellas Genealogy Society that is based at the Largo Public Library, 120 Central Park Drive,
many local residents and people from other areas of the state and country are researching their ancestors.
Created in 1972 as the Florida Society of Genealogical Research, the society was renamed in 1991 and takes up a large portion of the library’s second floor. All Pinellas County libraries some years ago sent their records to Largo, where the only centrally located countywide genealogy research division is now located.
At the helm is Peter Summers, a Wisconsin-born U.S. Army career retiree who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. The West Point graduate traced his own ancestry back to 1802 ante-bellum New York and has a lead that may trace his heritage even further, to the 1600s.
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The Pinellas Genealogy Society meets the third Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. in the library’s Jenkins Auditorium. There is a modest fee to join the society, but the public is invited to attend the meetings and use the society’s books and records. Call the society at 586-7410 or visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flpgs/.
