Will you be attending a genealogy conference, workshop, or event this week? There are plenty of them going on. All you have to do is find on that is located near you. This blog has a quick list of some of the genealogy events that are going on this week. On July 10, 2012, the Harris County Library, which is located in Cypress, Texas, will host a genealogy seminar. It will be presented by Kimberly Gay, resident academic reference librarian. She will discuss new research practices to use with genealogy. This is for library patrons who want to research their … Continue reading →

A genealogist can get a lot of information about his or her ancestors from newspapers. Most newspapers contain obituaries, and those contain all kinds of details about a person’s life. There also could be articles about local events that an ancestor participated in. Before you can get the information you need from newspapers, you have to locate them. Plenty of them are accessible online. There are two places that a genealogist can go in order to be able to sort through an archive of old newspapers. One, of course, is your local library. Many libraries have put old, fragile, newspapers … Continue reading →