The Bookmobile will not be at any stops this week for scheduled maintenance. We will resume a normal schedule Tuesday, May 28.

Expanding access to census records

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 improve access to census records for genealogists here.

Researchers can access genealogical information at www.FamilySearch.org from any computer with Internet access.

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library offers access to the resources on Ancestry.com from any of the computers within the library at Ancestry Library Edition (In-Library Use Only).

For more information on genealogy research, call Topeka Room Genealogy at 580-4510.

Author: Lissa Staley

Lissa Staley helps people use the library. She is a Book Evangelist, Health Information Librarian, Arts and Crafts Librarian, Trivia Emcee, Classics Made Modern book group leader, and frequent library customer, especially with her preschool children. She reads a new book every few days, but recently loved "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner, "Love and Other Perishable Items" by Laura Buzo and "The Reluctant Assassin" by Eoin Colfer and is looking forward to "Homeland" by Cory Doctorow.