The hard work of doing genealogy just got a little easier. A new genealogy room at the Jessie Peterman Memorial Library in Floyd [Virginia] has been opened.
The hard work of doing genealogy just got a little easier. A new genealogy room at the Jessie Peterman Memorial Library in Floyd has been opened. Although finishing touches are being made to the spacious area, genealogists have already been putting it to good use. The genealogy room is the final aspect of a complete library building/renovation project. The rest of the project at the library, a branch of the Montgomery – Floyd Regional Library, was completed last year. The county contributed a million dollars for the work, and over $600,000 in private donations was raised for it.
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The genealogy room includes microfilm files on census records, The Floyd Press (from earliest beginnings up to 2006 – updating editions is a work in progress), and the Katuah Journal from 1983-1993. The room also has donated family histories, DAR rolls, Civil War and general history information, military records, church records, Virginia will and land records, local histories of Floyd and Wythe Counties, cemetery records for Floyd County, all of the Mary Kegley books, and even high school yearbooks.
Read the full article about the new genealogy room at the Jessie Peterman Memorial Library in the March 26, 2009 edition of swvatoday.com.
