Can you accomplish anything on your genealogy with online resources?
Yes, you can!
Elizabeth Powell Crowe will share success stories of research, serendipity and cousin finding using websites and records in her talk, “Genealogy Online Success Stories." The First Tuesday Series program begins 10:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at the Crestview Public Library. Coffee and cookies will be served at 10 a.m.
Crowe, who lives and works in Navarre, has pursued genealogy for more than 30 years. Her various editions of Genealogy Online have sold a combined total of nearly 200,000 copies. The 10th edition comes out Oct. 22. Older editions of her book are available for checkout through the Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative; the upcoming edition is on pre-order.
She has worked as an editor for numerous genealogy or technology-related publications including Computer Currents magazine, Valley Leaves, LeDespencer magazine, and the Computers in Genealogy newsletter. In addition, she has contributed articles to Digital Genealogist magazine.
Crowe regularly presents and speaks on genealogy throughout the South — when she is not pursuing elusive ancestors.
OTHER RESOURCES
In-library and remote use of Heritage Quest Online also is available for genealogy research. Just go to the library website, www.cityofcrestview.org/library.php, and click on Electronic Resources. Scroll down to Heritage Quest Online and enter your 14-digit library card number.
Sections include:
•Search Census: Find ancestors in the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790-1940 including name indexes for many years.
•Search books: Find information on people and places described in over 28,000 family and local histories.
•Search PERSI Archive: Find information about people and places from this index of over 2.3 million genealogy and local history articles (1800-2009).
•Search Revolutionary War: Search selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Application Files.
•Search Freedman’s Bank: Search for individuals in Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874) which was founded to serve African-Americans.
•Search U.S. Serial Set: Search the U.S. Congress' memorials, petitions and private relief actions.
A good place to start once you have gone into any of these six sections is to click on the “Learning Center” or “Help” link on the upper right.
As "Roots" author Alex Haley has written, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage — to know who we are and where we came from.
"Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."
Sandra Dreaden is the Crestview Public Library's reference librarian.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: CHECK IT OUT: Genealogy resources aid 'marrow deep' quest for heritage