Are you looking for a bit of adventure this dreary season but can't afford to spend time or money on a vacation? Look no further than your local library, CMPLD, to transport you to another world: the world of virtual reality. The Workshop, located downstairs at the Cook Park Library, offers not one but three…
Responding to a challenge to write about an ancestor on a particular day, Tom from our Genealogy Networking Group shared this amazing day during the life of his wife's distant cousin. Charles G. Robson October. 27, 1858 Abraham Lincoln as portrayed by Dr. Thomas Willer It began like any other day but concluded very differently. …
Usually, a fire is red and orange and yellow and black. The fire in the library was colorless. You could look right through it, as if it were a sheet of glass. Where the flame had any color, it was pale blue... 'we thought we were looking at the bowels of hell.'" - From The…
Toby Hennessy knows he’s one lucky guy. He’s got a great job, a fantastic girlfriend and plenty of buddies to share a pint with at the pub. One night, however, his luck runs out when he is robbed and beaten in his apartment. As the police investigation drags on, so does Toby’s recovery and he…
Liane Moriarty is one of the most popular authors around. Besides Big Little Lies, which has become a big HBO miniseries, almost all of her other books have already been optioned for Hollywood. I think people love her work because her characters are so relatable and her stories are so clever. Moriarty succeeds again with…
Cook Memorial Public Library District (CMPLD) is constantly evolving to provide a multitude of different resources ranging from reading clubs to needlework classes all the way to tech workshops. If you’ve stopped by the library recently, you may have noticed the room that formerly housed the Library’s Digital Studio has a fresh coat of paint.…
At a recent Genealogy Networking Group meeting several people responded to the challenge of writing up an ancestor's profile on one particular day or year. They agreed to share them on the blog. Today we read about Pam's grandmother in 1918. Clara Smolen Krull This year a century ago This year a century ago, my…
Everyone has authors they consider an autobuy -- authors who could write a guide to federal tax code and you'd still be eager to read it. Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonder, The Poisonwood Bible) is one of mine, so I will admit that I came to her latest, Unsheltered, with a definite bias. The verdict, surprising…
Do you have ancestors who were adopted but don't know how to go about researching them? Having an adopted ancestor can often be one of the most frustrating and challenging aspects of genealogy research. In times past, records of adoptions weren’t as well kept as they are today, making searching for the link between birth parents…
At the beginning of 2018, we started profiling World War I veterans with a Libertyville connection - those who were born in Libertyville, were residents at the time of enlistment, or those that settled in town after the war. We profiled eight of the around 200 veterans that have been identified through newspaper articles, Ancestry.com,…
