The Bookmobile will not be at any stops this week for scheduled maintenance. We will resume a normal schedule Tuesday, May 28.
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.
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about some of the resources and search methods which might help you find out about your house and about the people who have lived there through the years. In particular, this blog entry talks about a geographic or [...]
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about some of the resources and search methods which might help you find out about your house and about the people who have lived there through the years. Throughout the history of Topeka from as early as 1870 [...]
10 standouts in 10 areas (plus one!) add up to the 10th edition of Family Tree Magazine’s 101 Best Web Sites, a well organized and annotated list of recommended web sites for genealogists. My only complaint is that while they list the pricey subscription cost for Ancestry.com and complain about the high cost, they forget to [...]
The recent presidential campaign came complete with pedigrees of the candidates. Oprah Winfrey is publically delving into her family history. A television show investigates celebrities’ ancestors. Genealogy and genealogists have always been around, but now the pursuit of one’s ancestors has become even more popular, even fashionable. In Canada, two national television programs featuring genealogy are [...]
The website includes four databases. Voyages lists the name of the vessel and its captain, the origin and destination of the slaves, and the year of the voyage. Estimates are collected in tables and show numbers of slaves embarking and disembarking, where the ship originated and where the slaves were landed. Images includes four categories: [...]
One of the largest available online family history resources is teaming up with other organizations to make more ancestral records available to the public. FamilySearch is a non-profit organization operating out of Salt Lake City, partnering with Ancestry.com to publish complete U.S. census records from 1790 to 1930. Read more about the joint project to [...]
On November 1, 2007, the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library dedicated the Dr. Phillip and Betty Baker Genealogy Center. The dedication honored a gift to The Library Foundation of $100,000 by the Bakers to ensure that the community has 21st-century resources for genealogy and family history research. The Baker gift will enhance library services [...]
