I began blogging about the possibility of a loan from Polk County to the Iowa Genealogical Society yesterday morning. Although I did an update last night, I felt that today I should just do a new blog.
It seems that the supervisors are having second thoughts, concerned about what the other nonprofit organizations might think. And […]
ST. CHARLES If the local library doesn’t have a copy of, say, “Missouri: Its People and Its Progress” or maybe, the 1890 Rand McNally World Atlas, now librarians can easily tell you where to find it.
The St. Charles City-County Library District and the St. Charles County Historical Society have joined forces - and resources […]
If you happen to live in Florida - directly in the path of the next hurricane - you might consider donating your stuff to a local historical organization.
The hurricanes that raked Florida did a lot of damage, but also had some positive effects, one of which is being felt in Indian River County.
“After the storms,” […]
MOULTON [Lawrence Co., Alabama] As the popularity of the Lawrence County Archives grows, so does the water damage that threatens to destroy its priceless historical documents.
Water is seeping through the brick and plaster walls of the archives building on Main Street. The building, the former Bank of Moulton, is part of the Moulton historic […]
It’s great to see government agencies working in concert to make for easy access to historical documents. The following article is a good example of just that. Kudos to the Madison County, Alabama folks.
Before you read about the Madison County land and tax documents just made easily accessible, I’d like to also mention that the […]
Campbell County, Wyoming is probably best known for the city of Gillette, a city of about 25,000 on Interstate 90 between Sheridan, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota. The county has some excellent online resources - as follows:
The Campbell County Public Library website has several online databases.
Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Obituary databases have been posted […]
Among other things, the Dacus library at Winthrop University preserves records relating to South Carolina history. The records of families, individuals, organizations, and businesses that have contributed to the history of the Catawba region are of special interest, as well as the personal papers of women and records of womens organizations significant in documenting […]
The Johnson County, Missouri, Historical Society has become the repository for pre-1880 Johnson County Court records. This is great news for genealogists. The Historical Society maintains a wonderful research facility where I personally have spent time researching ancestors for Patty and I. I had Gfellers in the area, while Patty has Hannas and Steels.
Following is […]
The San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society maintains a research library located at 911 Melissa in San Antonio. The library has many resources for genealogists interested in the area. Not only do they have a library, they are also actively conducting classes for genealogists, covering a wide variety of topics.
Their fall seminar, November 4, will […]
The Wells County Public Library in Bluffton, Indiana has two online resources that genealogists need to be aware of. First, they have an online Bluffton Obituary Index that runs from 1866 through the year 2000. Second, the Cemetery Index for Wells County, also accesssible online.
The Indiana room houses a number of excellent genealogy references, […]
Most of us are familiar with OCLC, available at most good libraries. Their new WorldCat Search is now online and in the clear. It’s in Beta format, and a very simple search engine, but it’s about the most powerful library catalog I’ve ever tried. I just typed in a few of my surnames of interest, […]
Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project–the University of California, which is also working with a team led by Yahoo, Microsoft and the Internet Archive.
Google will be scanning and digitizing millions of books from the University of California’s more than 100 libraries across its 10 campuses and making those titles fully […]
There’s a good article this morning about the Washington County Public Library, where my friend, Ernest Thode, is manager of local history and genealogy. Following is an excerpt.
It was five years ago in April that the new genealogy branch of the Washington County Public Library opened its research facility in a restored, single-story brick building […]
Houston The Houston Public Library is proud to announce the appointment of Susan Kaufman as the new manager for the Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research. Ms. Kaufman will be bringing twenty years of genealogical librarianship experience, including 6 years at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which is the nations […]
This is really sad…
A teenager whose skill at genealogical research made him something of a local celebrity died Thursday of burns he suffered in a house explosion on Wednesday.
Coady Hatlen, 15, is being mourned not only by his natural family, but by a second family, the staff at the Carlinville Public Library.
He was the third […]
I’ve been following this story out of Georgia, but hadn’t blogged it earlier. It seems that the former library director of the Gwinnett County Public Library bought lots of novels and let the genealogy section go. Needless to say, she doesn’t work there anymore…
LAWRENCEVILLE The Gwinnett County Public Library could restore its genealogical section, […]
Goodness. It is possible to pick up bargains at the local library book sale…
Brad Steinecke felt a little nervous last summer when he sent an e-mail to the producers of “History Detectives,” a popular PBS program that seeks to unravel historical mysteries, to suggest its investigators check out some of his old books.
“I debated whether […]
Larry Naukam, Head of Local History and Genealogy, at the Rochester Public Library has just announced the launch of their new web site which contains a link to the local history dept.
A series of indexes totaling over 130,000 names, in addition to another 800,000 in the Life Records (Births, marriages, deaths, etc.) Database is now […]
This is cool. It seems that my old employer, ProQuest, set up a portable library in Baton Rouge soon after Katrina. Somehow I missed hearing about it at the time and am passing on the good vibes now…
Ann Arbor-based ProQuest Co. donated a portable library to the city of New Orleans library system which lost […]
Visitors were lined up at the door Wednesday morning waiting for a chance to see the new Polk County Main Public Library.
Since the doors opened at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, library officials say, theres been a steady stream of visitors, coming to return or check out books or just check out the new facility. Many […]