Monday, May 23, 2016

Library Survey

The library is getting ready to overhaul the library website to make it  cleaner, clearer and more easy to navigate. We are asking for your input. Keep an eye out for an online survey, to appear on the home page soon.
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Reunion of Long-lost Siblings

This article,  posted on Dick Eastman's blog, tells
about two young brothers separated at the end of World War II and reunited after 65 years. A documentary on their story premiered this week in Canada.
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Monday, May 2, 2016

New tool from Google.

Google Keep can help you organize your online research. This article includes a link. You will need a Google account to use Keep. (source: ResearchBuzz)
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War of 1812 pension files

 Pension files for the War of 1812 are now available at Fold3 on the library's website. 83% of the 7.2 million pages have been added so...

  • North Carolina Slave Deeds added
     Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click  here.     ...
  • KKK records
     Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records.  This ...
  • Vietnam Memorial Wall of Faces
     Volunteers organized by the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund have found photos for all of the 58000 Americans who lost their lives ...