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STILL OPEN...

Our brick and mortar locations are closed tomorrow (January 1), but our downloadable collections are open for business 24/7, 365 days per year:

 

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THIS DOOR'S ALWAYS OPEN...

All our brick-and-mortar locations will be closed December 24 & 25, but our Digital Collection is open for business all day, every day...

GENEALOGY PROGRAMS FOR A NEW YEAR

Here it is mid-December, and I've already got seven programs scheduled for 2016! Here's the line-up for February-April (no programs scheduled for January--I've had to cancel too many of those on account of miserable weather to risk another one):

THURS

FEB 11, 7 PM

Shadow Schedules: An Introduction to Special & Non-population Census Schedules

Join us as Tom Pearson discusses special & non-population census schedules: agricultural; industrial; statistical; veterans; and mortality. Edwardsville Public Library, 112 S. Kansas Street, Edwardsville, IL 62025. To register / more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

SAT

FEB 20, 2 PM

eBooks for the Genealogist

Join us as Tom Pearson discusses eBook readers, eBook applications, and sources of free eBooks of special interest to genealogists and local historians. Buder Branch Library, 401 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis, Mo 63109. To register / more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

SAT

MAR 19, 2 PM

A Guided Tour of Ancestry Library Edition

Join us as Tom Pearson discusses features of and record sets contained in Ancestry Library Edition. He also discuss ways to search ALE more efficiently. Buder Branch Library, 401 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis, Mo 63109. To register / more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

THUR

APR 21, 7 PM

Speaks with the Dead: the Basics of Cemetery Research

Join us as Tom Pearson discusses burial customs; types of cemeteries; grave markers and headstones; death and burial records; dos and don’ts of cemetery research; and cemetery preservation and restoration. Waterloo Public Library, 215 Park St., Waterloo, IL 62298. To register / more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

FREE TOURS OF CENTRAL LIBRARY

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