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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Overturning Every Stone to Break Through Your Brick Wall

2025-01-23 19:00:00 2025-01-23 20:00:00 America/New_York Between a Rock and a Hard Place Whether due to a courthouse fire, natural disaster or late records collection date; each of us has that one ancestor, place or era where the records remain steadfastly elusive. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Thursday, January 23
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-01-23 19:00:00 2025-01-23 20:00:00 America/New_York Between a Rock and a Hard Place Whether due to a courthouse fire, natural disaster or late records collection date; each of us has that one ancestor, place or era where the records remain steadfastly elusive. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Explore From Home

Virtual AS 1

Whether due to a courthouse fire, natural disaster or late records collection date; each of us has that one ancestor, place or era where the records remain steadfastly elusive.

* Use this link to join our virtual program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81390604800

Tina Beaird will share success stories and offer tips and strategies to break through that brick wall and find that elusive ancestor. Suggestions will include working around records loss due to a courthouse fire; ancestors born before statewide public vital record collections and how to find collateral records for military ancestors whose military records were destroyed in the 1973 National Archives fire.

Presenter: Tina Beaird, owner of Tamarack Genealogy, is a genealogy and local history librarian at a mid-sized Chicagoland public library. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree with a specialization in Archives/Preservation from Dominican University in River Forest, IL. Tina has won multiple research and digitization grants over the years to preserve and digitize historic documents and photographs. She lectures nationally on topics including genealogical methodology, military records, Scottish research, plus photo and archival preservation. Tina has assisted researchers for over twenty years, and occasionally still finds time to conduct her own family research, which she has been pursuing for over thirty years. Tina is the First Vice-President of the Illinois State Genealogical Society, and board director for the Oswegoland Heritage Association, she is also an active member of the American Library Association and the Society of American Archivists. She volunteers her time, when available, with several Chicagoland historical and genealogical societies.

At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here: https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/80182

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AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Local History & Genealogy |

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Explore From Home


Hours
We're closed Monday January 20 due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Mon, Jan 20 Closed
(Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Tue, Jan 21 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jan 22 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jan 23 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jan 24 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jan 25 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Jan 26 Closed

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