The following teaser is from an article which was posted January 5, 2014 at the KCRG.com website.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – In the basement of the Masonic Library in Cedar Rapids, there’s a hidden treasure that few people know about.
“We have almost anything that you’d ever look for,” said Charlene Hansen with the Linn County Genealogical Society. She’s been helping people track down deceased relatives, birth records, and old pictures since the early 1970’s. Most of it was given to the Society by Linn County.
“People don’t realize what we do have, but we not only cover Linn County, which most people think, but we cover other Iowa counties, other states, and other countries,” Hansen told us.
There are cabinets packed with newspapers on microfilm, like The Daily Rustler out of Center Point.
