Author Name: Jill Craig
Library System: Western Maryland Regional Library
Learning Event website:
http://www.mdlib.org/files/docs/conference/MLAProgram.pdf
Top 3 things learned:
Resources for family histories -
1. Published histories add material not found in census data. The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy and Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records list sources. Many libraries like WCFL's Western Maryland Room and FCPL's Maryland Room collect only local family histories, but there are libraries that collect more broadly, like Mid Continent Library http://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy and Allen Public Library http://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy and might be willing to either answer a question based on the book or ILL a copy.
2. Heritage Quest includes PERSI (Periodical Research Index) as well as census. PERSI could be used to look for a family name in an article.
3. Family Search also has published family histories. They scan small run family histories and have over 200,000 digitized family and local history publications - books.familysearch.org
How to implement:
These resources could add to what I post on whilbr. I traditionally search ancestry.com for some information about a person I am referring to. Looking at published family histories could add to this info.
Additional learning: Family Search requires Internet Explorer. I had deleted it from my computer!
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