I was so pleased to get notice last evening that my dear friend, Ruth Bishop, has finally gotten non-profit status for the library she has been collecting. Patty and I had lunch with Ruth and Jan a few days ago when they were here in Salt Lake City. Jan showed me the list of items […]
The new Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana) is about finished. The Genealogy Department will begin moving on December 26. The Grand Opening will be held January 27.
Moving books and materials from the Allen County Public Librarys current location on Berry Street to the new main library will cost about $615,000.
The library board of […]
With it’s opening last Tuesday, the Everton Collection got some good press this week. The Utah newspapers saw an opportunity for a big story with a lot of local interest. Following is an excerpt from an article in today’s Tribune.
LOGAN - It has taken two years, but long-gone friends and family members are finally at […]
It has just been announced that the Wisconsin Historical Society Library will be one of the libraries in which Google will scan and digitize books and “genealogy materials.” This is important to genealogists, because this library has one of the premier genealogy collections in the country. The following excerpt has details.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — […]
Niles District Library will host our third annual Local History and Genealogy Day on Saturday, Oct. 21, in the library’s community room. Pre-registration is requested for this all-day event which is free to the public. A box lunch will be available for $7 (prepaid). During the lunch break, the reader’s theatre troupe, “Library Voices,” will […]
It seems that New York Archives Week begins tomorrow (Sunday). Folks are remembering the preservation of the past - and Tompkins County is no exception. Following is an excerpt from an article in the October 7 edition of the Ithaca Journal that speaks of many of the the Tompkins County resources.
Tompkins County is rich in […]
It’s official. The Everton Collection will be available to the public for the first time in years - starting next Tuesday. Following is an email I got from Library Director Ron Jenkins today.
We will be opening the Everton Genealogy Collection to the public beginning on Tuesday October 10th. The regular schedule for the collection […]
I blogged a few days ago about how the Mid-Continent Public Library Genealogy Center is about to be replaced by a much larger new facility. The following is an excerpt from an article in today’s Kansas City Star -with new information.
The building will replace the systems current Genealogy and Local History Branch, which opened in […]
IONIA [Michigan) - Ionia Community Library officials have literally cut in half the price tag for constructing a new library building, and they hope the scaled-back proposal will be more agreeable to Ionia-area voters next May.
On Tuesday library board members presented the Sentinel-Standard with the schematics for the new facility, to be constructed on Adams […]
The new Germantown, Tennessee, Regional History & Genealogy Center will open in October according to an item in the Memphis Commercial Appeal today. About a year ago, the Tennesssee Genealogical Society donated their 14,000 book collection to the Germantown library. Since then, the city has moved quickly with the project.
Germantown amended its contract with a […]
I had a really bad feeling about blogging the Tuesday opening of the Everton Collection in Logan this weekend. I read in the paper that the library would open Tuesday and blogged it that way. However, the Tuesday should have been the first Tuesday in October and that will be October 3. Library Director Ron […]
The 1897-1920 Michigan Death Records, a brand-new resource that is available at the Library of Michigan, will benefit family history researchers across the state. The Library of Michigan is able to provide these records thanks to a generous gift from the Michigan Genealogical Council and the Abrams Foundation.
“This records set supplements the Library’s existing vital […]
According to an article in the South Bend Tribune, the Hoyt library in Saginaw is the #3 rated Michigan genealogy library. In checking out the website, I find that the library has posted an index of over 200,000 area obituaries. Better yet, after finding your ancestor in the index, click on the name and you […]
Walt Hilbig wrote our Germanic Questions and Answers column for Heritage Quest Magazine for many years. I just found that his correspondence files are located at Arlene Eakle’s library in Tremonton, Utah. The following is by Kaye Mindar, and published in the September 21, 2006 edition of Small Town Papers.
This week in our genealogy corner […]
The Eckhart Public Library and William H. Willennar Genealogy Center in Auburn [DeKalb County, Indiana] will be closed Monday through Sept. 30 for maintenance. Regular hours will resume Oct. 2.
From the September 23, 2006 edition of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
My friend, Beth Gay, is an institution in the area of Scots genealogy. Now it looks like she’s scrambling to survive in the genealogy field. I know the feeling. Been there - done that. But life goes on, and I’m sure it will for Beth. The following article, written by Lori Glenn, was published in […]
The Everton Collection will open to the public on Tuesday, September 26. I will announce the exact hours as soon as I get them. I blogged about the opening of the Everton Collection by the Logan Public Library a few days ago, but the following AP article gives a few more details.
LOGAN — The […]
It looks like Independence, Missouri is about to get a facility that at some point could rival the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was in the library just a short time ago - and the current 12,000 foot facility was packed with books. The new 52,000 foot two-story building will be […]
I really feel that I’m being premature in posting this blog, but since the word is now circulating on the Internet, I’m forced into it. Yes - plans are underway for the Everton library to open in early October. I will announce the actual opening when it happens.
The Everton collection, which has been unavailable to […]
The Monroe County Historical Association will have new hours for the fall and winter season. The Stroud Mansion, located at 900 Main St. in Stroudsburg, is now open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the first and third Saturday of the month.
The Monroe County Historical […]