Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

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..Jingle All the Way! Oh, What Fun, It is to Ride, In a one-horse Open Sleigh!! No one rides in sleighs anymore, one-horse or othe...
Monday, December 8, 2014

OBITUARIES

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Genealogists love to use newspaper obituaries to further their genealogical research. Obituaries help verify date and place of death. And...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Not His Father's Son

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Not My Father’s Son   Alan Cummings, Broadway, movie/TV star, and host of Masterpiece Theatre, describes the emotional roller coaster he...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Just the facts, ma'am...

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Genealogy is all about uncovering facts about individuals. We don't often talk about statistics. But today we will. In 199...
Monday, December 1, 2014

"An Inside Look at Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr."

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The above titled article appears in the Fall 2014 issue of American Ancestors , a genealogy magazine published by the New England Histori...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thanksgivings Past

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How Americans celebrate Thanksgiving has changed A LOT over the years. From the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts with the ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

GENEALOGY DURING THE HOLIDAYS

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Here at the library, we notice a lull in genealogy researching from mid-November through the New Year as the genealogists are just as busy...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Ancestry's Commercials

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Have you noticed that Ancestry.com has changed their advertisement?? Remember how their commercial used to say "You do...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

MEDINA HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS

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The Medina Library is very fortunate to have a large collection of Medina High School Yearbooks. The earliest dates to 1...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

FINDING YOUR ROOTS

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Are you a huge fan of the Finding Your Roots  television show like I am?  Do you try to NEVER miss an episode? That would be me! ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

THE GENEALOGIST IS IN!!

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But not tomorrow! Tomorrow is November 11th and all of the Medina County District Libraries are closed for Staff Development Day. Once ...
Friday, November 7, 2014

In Honor of Veterans' Day

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In honor of Veterans Day, the Medina County Veterans Service Center is displaying military items in the cabinets outside of the Franklin...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Jean Cooper Post Card Collection

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Jean Cooper, a long time library volunteer, donated her collection of Medina Post Cards to the local history collection. Focusing str...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

You might be a genealogist if...

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How many of you are fans of Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck if…” comedy routine? Okay, I am probably revealing my own ...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

New microfilm machines at the Medina Library

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    The new STImaging microfilm machines at the Medina Library In October the Medina Library purchased two new microfilm ma...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

DAR Patriot Index

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Good morning! Yesterday, a co-worker asked me where the library's  DAR Patriot Index was. It was still listed in the catalog and a ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Librarians Seminar at OGS

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Just came back from the Ohio Genealogical Society's Annual Librarians Seminar on October 17th. They had a full house of participants...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Ancestry.com

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While reading the latest issue of Family Chronicle magazine, this situation was recounted by author Wendy Carlson: Recently a woman contact...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

New Lineage Society...

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For years I resisted the lure of joining a lineage society, labeling them "elitist" and old-fashioned. But lately, I have been re...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Benefits of Genealogy

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Several genealogy articles lately have cited the study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology that showed that thinking abo...