Maywood Public Library foootnotes: Library’s local history archives ‘a wealth of resources’
The Maywood Public Library, 121 S. Fifth Ave., has a wealth of resources in its local history collection that details the more than century old history of the Village of Maywood and the Maywood Library. Materials are archived in boxes by broad subjects located in the Local History Archives Room in the Carnegie Building. An index of these subjects and their location is maintained in the Reference …
Kopke teaches genealogy at the library
Wisconsin Dells resident Karen Knoble always wanted to know more about her grandfather who died working on the railroad in Great Falls, Mont.
Sheppard Memorial Library located in Greenville, North Carolina has wonderful genealogy resources available to assist families to learn more about their ancestry. The goal of this video was to help convey the availability: online databases, microfilm, local history books, books available for check-out, and reference to the Pitt County Family Researchers who meet monthly at the library. Vintage images were from East Carolina University’s Special Collection at Joyner Library. All the photographs were taken in the Greenville and Pitt County area mostly between the early 1950s throughout the 1960s.
Library users can tap into powerful databases
This is the last in a series of three articles from the Stillwater Public Library, which, along with the rest of the country, celebrated National Library Week April 11-17.
www. youtube. com is a video describing how to learn more about the Mormon Church. This is from the October 2007 World Report 600 people from 17 countries met in Salt Lake City for the 27th annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. “With the closeness of the Family History Library, and their thousands and thousands of rolls of film on Jewish records from Europe, we thought that this is a venue where people would come to lectures, but would spend a lot of time at the library. ” –Michael Brenner, Vice President The Family History Library and the Association began planning more than 2 years ago to find resources that would best serve conference attendees. For more information, visit www. familysearch. org
