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When an answer is elusive, do you tend to give up? Don’t stop just because one thing didn’t turn up any records for you. There are always more databases, digitized collections, online books, and so much more to find. This lecture discusses “genealogical perseverance” through examples and how they were overcome. |
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Census RecordsWednesday, August 6, 4:00 pm
Robert W. Saunders Library -- Gallery on the Avenue One of the most accessible genealogical records is the Federal Census, first in 1790 and every ten years since. Learn how the census changed throughout the years and how best used in your research. Recommended for adults. Registration recommended. |
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Join us for a hybrid book talk with the author of WHITE LIGHT: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus? In Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World by Jack Lohmann. Participants can attend this event virtually or in-person at the John F. Germany Library. Registration recommended. Recommended for adults 18 and up. |
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Tampa's history can found in Sanborn fire insurance maps. They offer amazing insight into our city's growth and change over time. Learn more about them and their uses. This program will teach you the history and scope of the Sanborn Maps. You will be able to access, search and explore the collection from home and at the library. Recommended for adults. |
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This in-depth seminar covers everything a family photographer needs to know about caring for photographs. Topics include printing and sharing digital images, and how to safely label grandparents’ pictures. Maureen Taylor, The Photo DetectiveÒ helps clients with photo related genealogical problems. Her pioneering work in historic photo research has earned her the title “the nation’s foremost historical photo detective” by The Wall Street Journal and appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others. Members of the public are welcome to attend and must register at least one day in advance by emailing: info@mgsfl.org. |
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Participants will learn the best ways to organize and preserve family photos including outsourcing as well as the DIY approach. Starting with quick and easy inventory and organizing tips, we’ll move on to creating a strategic plan to finally get this photo project done! |
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Explore the digital options for saving your family history research. Explore the variety of desktop and web-based applications researchers can use for organizing their data. Review best practices for both using these applications and uploading digital scans of records to the software. |
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Most genealogists never get around to publishing that family history book based on their genealogy research. How about a different approach: producing short 3-5 page “sketches” about an ancestor? You’ll learn how to include a cover, photos, facts, family stories, source citations and more! And guess what, once you get a few of these ancestor sketches done, you can compile them together for one big book! |
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by Denise May-Levenick
Presents advice on how to preserve and create a catalog of family heirlooms, organize genealogy records, and store family information on computer files. |
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by Margot Note Family history is important. Photos, videos, aged documents, and cherished papers--these are the memories that you want to save. And they need a better home than a cardboard box. Creating Family Archives is a book written by an archivist for you, your family, and friends, taking you step-by-step through the process of arranging and preserving your own family archives. It's the first book of its kind offered to the public by the Society of American Archivists. Gathering up the boxes of photos and years of video is a big job. But this fascinating and instructional book will make it easier and, in the end, much better. |
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by Katherine Sturdevant This title shows readers how to safely collect, preserve and even publish some of their inherited memorabilia from relatives and ancestors. There are tips and guidelines on: locating, organizing and transcribing family documents; the care of fragile papers; and conducting historical research. |
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Ancestors in the Atticby Karen FoyMuch family history focuses on digging around archives and web searches. Here, Karen Foy shows that our attics and cupboards can often hide a treasure trove of personal documents and ephemera. Boxes full of photographs, hastily written notes, old tickets, postcards, ration books, a soldier's hat, a bundle of letters, perhaps a diary, are all invaluable sources of information about our family history. These are crucial in piecing together the everyday lives of our ancestors, exposing secrets, and family relationships. You might discover favorite family recipes, information about their schooldays, reconstruct a Victorian family holiday. This book guides you through 200 years of different types of memorabilia: how to interpret them and how to use them to make your own family history - perhaps making a scrapbook or website.
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by Kennis Kim
Artifacts, whether found in museums, our community, or our homes, offer glimpses into the past. Be they documents, photographs, books, or clothing, as custodians of our history, we're faced with how to maintain these items. Professional conservator Kennis Kim tells us how. Topics discussed include: creating an accession list; the nature of conservation, restoration, and preservation; deciding on display, storage, or using the artifact; common threats such as light, humidity, insects, and rodents; and when to call a professional. Here is all that's needed to determine what can be done to preserve precious articles for future generations. |
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Preserving Your Family Photographsby Maureen TaylorTaylor outlines in straightforward steps how to save your family photographs by using the methods that conservators and photo curators use everyday. You'll learn how to: Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection. Take care of all your photos so that damage is a thing of the past. Select a conservator to repair damaged photos Preserve your digital images Take advantage of low-cost alternatives to traditional photo preservation techniques.
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by Ann Fleming
It can take hours to research family history and it is easy to become inundated with stuff – paper records, recordings, photographs, notes, artifacts, and more information than one would imagine could ever exist. The usefulness of the collection is in the organization – using computers, archival boxes, files, and forms to help you put your hands on what you need when you need it. Also included, in this book, are instructions on the best ways to store and preserve one–of–a–kind family relics.
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Personal Archivingby Donald HawkinsThis multi-authored work offers one of the first and most robust explorations of the emerging field of personal digital archiving.
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How to Organize Family History Paperworkby Denise May-LevenickFamily history research can quickly create mountains of paperwork. This book give you step-by-step instruction to effectively organize and digitize your genealogy research papers.
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Get free access to a variety of videos with your library card. Want to learn more about death and genealogy? Check out Kanopy for a wide selection of videos on related topics. |
Check out the Genealogy & History page for other library databases and online resources that can aid you in your research. |
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Get free access to a large collection of videos with your library card. Want to learn more about genealogy and related topics? Consider The Great Courses Video BingePass, which provides access to hundreds of (streaming) video courses and may be checked out for 7 days. |
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