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!

COOPERATIVE PATENT CLASSIFICATION WORKSHOP

As of January 1, 2015, The United States Patent and Trademark Office now use only the Cooperative Patent Classification when new patents are granted. Come learn how this new patent classification works and what makes it different from the previous United States Patent Classification that has been used since 1790.

WHAT: Cooperative Patent Classification Workshop
WHEN:  Tuesday, July 14 from 6 to 8 p.m.
WHERE:  Second Floor Training Room, Central Library, 1301 Olive St., STL, MO 63103
WHOM:  Anyone interested in filing a patent.

Questions? Ask us!

THE GRAND TOUR

St. Louis, MO… The St. Louis Public Library and the Campbell House Museum are proud to set sail on a nineteenth-century adventure as they partner to present "The Grand Tour" Exhibition, in Central Library's Great Hall, 1301 Olive Street, June 11 through August 22. Visitors to the Library can explore Europe and exotic locales via an exhibit drawn from the Library's rich collection of postcards, maps, travel guides, and photographs. The exhibit incorporates the story of the Campbells, a prominent St. Louis family who embarked on their own Grand Tour in 1867. Mementos from the Campbell House collection, including items from the family's frequent travels, will complement the exhibit. The Library's exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

After enjoying the Grand Tour Exhibition at the Library, visitors are encouraged to follow the well-marked path one block to take a guided tour of the Campbell House Museum. The Museum not only preserves the Campbells' house, but also their collection of original furniture, fixtures paintings, objects, and thousands of pages of family documents. In 2005, the Campbell House Museum completed a meticulous five-year restoration that returned the building to its opulent 1880s appearance, when the house was one of the centers of St. Louis society. Admission and a guided tour is $8 per person. Campbell House Museum members and children under 12 are FREE (Group rates available).

For more information, call 314.241-2288.

TOURING EUROPE TODAY

NEED A JOB?

The U.S. Census Bureau needs Field Representatives in St. Louis County and several other places nationwide (click on the flyer below to be taken to the Field Recruitment Bulletin):

Duties: Interviews respondents to collect survey or census data as required for current, on-going surveys, one-time surveys, and special censuses. The incumbent is responsible for communicating with respondents, supervisors, and other persons as appropriate.

Reads survey materials and conducts door-to-door surveys. Explains the purpose of the survey, asks questions as worded on the questionnaire or survey instrument, and enters accurate and complete information into a laptop computer or onto survey forms.

The incumbent may occasionally be required to lift boxes of survey materials or laptops weighing up to 30 pounds. Maintains personal payroll records that reflect hours worked, miles driven, and reimbursements for travel and communications claimed.

HE'S A REBEL

Note: This program is free and open to the public, and you can park for free on the Buder Branch Library parking lot.

THURSDAY

JUNE 11

2 pm-3:30 pm

He’s a Rebel: Researching Confederate Ancestors

Tom Pearson discusses book, manuscript, microfilm, and Internet sources of information on ancestors who served in the Confederate armed forces. Buder Branch Library, 4401 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63109. To register/more information, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

THE SOUNDS OF ST. LOUIS HISTORY

ON TOUR WITH THE CAMPBELLS

Saturday, August 1, 1:30p.m. - Training Room, 2nd Floor, Central Library

Andy Hahn, Executive Director of The Campbell House, will take you on the Grand Tour along with Campbell family members who toured Europe on several occasions between the 1860s and the 1890s.  Find out more about this remarkable family, whose house still stands as a portal to historic St. Louis.  Following the program, attendees can take a short walk (or ride) to the Campbell House for a free tour.

Note: You must attend the program in order to participate in the free tour. 

ANCESTRY.COM MILITARY RECORDS FREE WEEKEND

This Memorial Day weekend, find details about your family’s military history with free access from home to more than 200 million military records. Get to know the men and women who answered when duty called:

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