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Learn basics of researching family history at workshop
The Orangeburg County Historical Society, in association with the Orangeburg County Library, will present the fourth in a series of Genealogy Basics Workshops from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 11, in the library's meeting room. The fourth program will ...

Genealogical Society Meeting to Feature Look at 200-Year-Old Torah Restoration
Constance St. Special interest groups will meet at 9:30 a.m. for Beginning Genealogy, German Ancestry, Italian Ancestry and Computer Genealogy, and at 9 a.m. for JewishGen. The featured program will start at 10:30 a.m. This month’s meeting ...

Genealogy organization adds search library
The West Nebraska Family Research & History Center is the newest Family Search affiliate library. The new designation means library patrons will have enhanced access to the world’s largest repository of genealogical records, including Family History ...

Program on cemetery monuments scheduled by genealogy group
Thomas Weigel will present a program, "The History of Cemetery Monuments," at 7 p.m. today at the Bismarck Public Library. Weigel will speak at a gathering of the Bismarck-Mandan Historical and Genealogical Society in Room B on the library's ...

An early spring from your Westport Library
If so, the Westport Free Public Library now offers you the opportunity to tackle serious genealogy right from your home computer. They have acquired Ancestry.com library software, to which you simply connect from home, or stop by the library to ...

QR Codes can 'expand the experience' of genealogists
"Genealogical Uses for QR Codes," a presentation Friday at this year's RootsTech Family History & Technology Conference by High-Definition Genealogy founder Thomas MacEntee, brought to light some ways these codes can be used in family history efforts.

Genealogy checklist: A list of sources - Part 2
Most of the sources listed in the first article are easily found, and generally follow the same format regardless of person. Nearly all genealogists will be able to find at least three of them or more per person, at least for their most recent generations.

Community genealogy' program set at Encounter Center
SIOUX CITY -- The Betty Strong Encounter Center will present "Lives Commemorated" with Duane Kraayenbrink at 2 p.m. Thursday in the activity room. Admission is free. Kraayenbrink, news director at KWIT-KOJI FM-90.3, will share images and ...

Q&A with Tracee Hamilton
Why don't you become a columnist?" Her interests range from genealogy to Nordic combined to Kansas basketball. If ever there were a Jayhawk who once flew off a ski jump, she'd know where he was buried. Her list of pet peeves is considerably longer ...

Reminders for Thursday, Feb. 9
The executive board of the Warren County Ill. Geneological Society will meet at 11 a.m. in the Geneology Library Senior Adults Living Truth Luncheon at Immanuel Baptist Church at 12 p.m. This luncheon is offered every second Thursday of the month.