Students can learn about their family roots with the Friends of the Libraries’ Workshop Series. The Friends of the Libraries offer exclusive programs for students and members. Participants receive individualized instruction and take home items that are helpful toward finishing projects.
This month’s program, Research Your Roots, is a seminar in which students get to research their backgrounds and learn about past ancestors, place of residence and other government or public records.
“I was asked to do the program so students can research the roots of their family,” John Armstrong, the archivist presenting this program, said. “Students can search for these things online and look up records such as death and birth certificates and other documents.”
Since the program is about researching family roots, future programs also tie in to this month’s event.
Next month’s event gives members a chance to digitize old family photos and create online scrapbooks.
Students may sign up for these events. Experience in genealogy, scanning or multimedia is not needed.
While these services are being offered at the Dunbar library, pre-registration and a fee is required to participate. It’s $12 for members and $15 for non members per workshop.
You can register by mail, by calling (937)775-2380 or online at libraries.wright.edu/calendar/events.
