Saturday, July 11, 2015

JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY EXPANSION

Of interest to many of our genealogists:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MT63YK3



Wednesday, July 1, 2015

FREE ANCESTRYDNA KIT


Received from Tom MacEntee at GeneaBloggers.com:

At GeneaBloggers.com, we often receive items from vendors in the genealogy world to promote products, services and even television shows! Well the folks at TLC, host of Who Do You Think You Are?, were generous and recently sent a press kit for the show –- a press kit filled with goodies!

One of these goodies is a FREE AncestryDNA kit valued at $99 USD. You can WIN this great prize by entering our latest contest here.

HELP US HELP YOU!



We at the St. Louis Public Library are interested in preserving the history of Our Fair City; in building collections that document its history.  So we are interested in getting materials about or related to the St. Louis region.  An example - we get many requests for St. Louis City high school yearbooks.  We have many for various City high schools (past & present) but there are gaps in our collection.  We would love for people to contact us to see if they have just the ones we need to fill these gaps.

Do you have other St. Louis books or materials?  St. Louis neighborhood material; books by local authors; and works on St. Louis businesses, churches, schools, and cemeteries are other categories that we look for.  If you have St. Louis books or other materials, check with us.

We also know that some of you have collected on specific subjects for years, carefully compiling a collection that cannot be found elsewhere.  The Library will also consider donations of such unique collections that can complement items we already have.  Examples are African-American materials; sheet music; architectural subjects; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World’s Fair); and (of course) family or county histories.

To find out if you can help us—or if we can help you—call or email our Special Collections Department (314-539-0399).

ANCESTRY.COM FREE WEEKEND




St. Louis public Library provides free access to Ancestry.com at Central Library and our branches, but you can have free access from home this holiday weekend only to Ancestry.com’s collection of records for our original 13 colonies! Search more than 160 million birth, marriage, death, and divorce records—plus their just-released Virginia collection!