Microfilm Genealogy Humor

Just a little humor for all the genealogists out there! Raise your hand if you can relate. Have a great weekend! May all your searches be successful searches.

Jonesboro Public Library Genealogy Lock-in

Not sure where to look when researching Native American family members or what resources are available?

You're in luck then!  Join our friends at the library in Jonesboro, Arkansas on Saturday, July 19th, for an informative night with fellow genealogists to hear a guest speaker and take advantage of the chance to perform research "after hours".

For more information regarding this event, call 870-935-5133 or visit their website at: libraryinjonesboro.org

Happy researching!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Thanks to all the fellow genealogists, friends, and researchers that have stopped by to check things out over the two and a half years.  Today, this blog had it's 10,000th page view!  And how appropriate is it to take place on Memorial Day?

Keep checking back as there is always more news!  We have several new items in the Genealogy Department to talk about, workshops taking place around the region, and maybe a surprise or two as well.

Butler County Genealogy Society Update

Belated New Year's greetings fellow genealogists!

The Butler County Genealogy Society asked I help spread the word regarding their monthly meetings.  They are no longer meeting at the Twin Towers at 2 PM on the fourth Thursday each month.  The Society has a new meeting place and time.  You will now find them holding their regular meetings at the First United Methodist Church, located at 500 N. Main St. here in Poplar Bluff at their new time 1:30 PM.  The dates still fall on the fourth Thursday of each month.

Also, if you haven't purchased a copy of "Butler County History Book, Volume 3", stop by the county archives 9-3 each Tuesday for a copy (barring additional inclement weather like we've received lately!).

Everyone stay safe and warm and look forward to more posts soon!

John Stanard's Pictorial History Books Christmas Special - One Day Only!!!

"The Way We Worked" Exhibit @ the Library

Guest Speakers to Discuss Exhibit on Wednesday, September 25th at the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library

Two opportunities to join the conversation @ 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

"The Way We Worked" is a stunning, locally created exhibit focusing on the history of local Poplar Bluff and Butler County industry, commerce, and education. The story unfolds in striking pictures depicting how the river, railroad, cypress forests and agriculture shaped our community.

Join the Library for a meeting of memories, as Dr. Frank Nickell, retired SEMO History Professor, and John Stanard, retired journalist, author and local historian, discuss the exhibit and provide further insight and story behind the pictures.   

"The Way We Worked" is on exhibit at the Library now until Monday, October 7th.

New Books For Genealogy Reference On Display

What do you do at home with an oddball piece of furniture that just doesn't seem to "fit" anywhere or have a real purpose?  Throw it out?  Await divine inspiration? Keep moving it until its "out of sight, out of mind"?  Libraries have this same problem with furniture.  Fortunately, librarians can be a resourceful lot and re-purpose many things.

Such is the tale of the pictured bookstand.  It's moved all over the building for a number of years.  Yes, bookstands generally hold books.  But what books? And where?  Then it hit.  We should display new Genealogy/Reference books!!  We already do this for fiction, non-fiction, videos, audiobooks, etc., so why not in Genealogy?  A new book is easily overshadowed by all the other items in that collection and may go unnoticed for quite sometime because researchers believe they've seen all the books we have on a certain location or topic.  Just look at all the wonderful new resources that might have been missed but are now on display:

• 1890 Genealogical Census Reconstruction: Ohio Edition, Volume 1
• 1890 Genealogical Census Reconstruction: Mississippi, Volume 1
• 1890 Genealogical Census Reconstruction: Mississippi, Volume 2
• Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, South Carolina: 1785-1827
• Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699
• Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana, 1778-1783. the History and Passenger Lists of the Islenos Volunteer Recruits and Their Families
• Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants to Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
• Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870
• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834
• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829
• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819
• Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas
• Some Alabama Pioneers
• State Census of North Carolina, 1784-1787

Genealogy books aren't cheap.  These 14 titles cost approximately $500!  Wondering where the funding for these new items came from?  Money generously donated to the library as a memorial by friends and family allowed these to be purchased in memory of the dearly departed.  We hope their gifts to the library benefit you in your research on your next trip to the library as well as future researchers in the the years to come.