Tips and tools for tracing your family tree, upcoming cultural events, read about books with a Kansas connection, and meet our resident genealogy experts. Plus, stuff from our art/history vault.
Join us in the Topeka Room on Sunday, May 1, 2:00-3:00pm for a discussion of Kipp Van Camp’s new book Always Allie. Topeka radiologist Kipp Van Camp has written his first book about the relationship between Allie, the family’s “four-legged daughter” and the other members of the family. Kipp is the son of a [...]
Jeanne Drewes, the Chief of the Binding and Collections Care Division and Program Manager of the Mass Deacidification Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress will lead a workshop on caring for your collection Thursday, April 28 from 6 – 8:30 pm in the Marvin Auditorium, 101B. Along with other archivists and preservationists, Jeanne will show you what [...]
Topeka author Max Yoho will be in the Topeka Room on Sunday, April 3 from 2-3pm to speak about his newest novel “With the Wisdom of Owls.” This humorous look at childhood through the character of baby Harry, his owl Godfather Wyatt, two “owlces” (owl uncles), and the rest of Harry’s human family is sure to strike [...]
How do you know someone is telling you the truth? Join us in the Topeka Room of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library for this month’s Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Authors program on Sunday, March 13 at 2:00pm to hear former FBI agent Mark Bouton as helps you become a human lie detector by [...]
How to find the obituary index, search for your person, and locate or request the information you find for obituaries published in the local Topeka area newspapers. Here’s how to proceed with your search from anywhere on the Library’s Digital Branch. Click on the “Research” button and then click on “Genealogy and Local History” in the [...]
On Sunday, January 9, 2011, from 2:00-3:00pm in the Topeka Room (204), Kansas Author Reaona Hemmingway, a distant relative to Ernest, tells us about her voracious writing career and her influences. She discusses how she wrote 12 novels in three years while her grandmother, Doris Hemmingway, resided in an Alzheimer’s nursing facility. Reaona’s family read the novels [...]
Our yearbook collection in the Topeka Room (204) is great but we need your help to fill in the holes in the collection. Years currently needed to fill out our collection (we keep two copies: one on the shelf and one back-up): Assumption/Capital Catholic/Hayden: pre-1960, 1963-1967, 1969-1977, 1980, 1981, 1983-1991, 1993-1997, 1999-2010 Highland Park: 1916-1939, [...]
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about one of the resources to search in order to find out more about the history of your property and who has owned it through the years. Come with me on a field trip downtown to the Shawnee [...]
