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Do you have enslaved ancestors? Do you have a passion for cemeteries, their identification, and their ongoing preservation? Then, you may be interested in learning about a wonderful national cemetery network! As we know, cemeteries can be a great resource for genealogical research. Recently, NPR featured an article about a partnership between neighbors who were…

Newspapers are one of the most valuable sources for finding information about our ancestors. Happily, Newspapers.com is offering free access this weekend, through February 17, 2020, 11:59 Mountain Time. Click on this link to register and start searching. Good luck!…

Local History Librarian Jenny Barry shares some of the quirkiest newspaper headlines and articles she's encountered in her years researching Libertyville's history. Visit our local history page to discover your own oddities in Cook Library's newspaper archives! http://traffic.libsyn.com/cooklib/Local_History_Headlines.mp3…

At our recent Genealogy Networking Group this week we spent a great deal of time going through Family Tree Magazine's list of top 101 genealogy websites. Some of the ones we examined were: Mooseroots. This is the kind of site you can get lost in for hours at a time. Mooseroost searches lots of other websites…

Are you a fan of using newspapers in your genealogy research? If so, check out the Old Fulton NY Post Cards website, one of, if not the, largest free digital newspaper websites out there. Old Fulton NY is a one-man-show run by Tom Tryniski, a retired engineer with a high school education and a passion…

Cook Library has two databases you can use to find Chicago obituaries. Patrons most often use the Chicago Tribune Historical Database for Chicago research. The less frequently used is called Chicago Tribune Historical Archive but it's one you don't want to overlook. Here's why: Chicago Tribune Historical Archive has access to 2.5 million obituaries and death notices.…

Finding an obituary, marriage notice, or news article about your ancestor in a newspaper can be thrilling, giving details to an event that the official record doesn't convey. But where and how can you find these gems?The answer is three-fold: Some newspapers have been digitized and are available through subscription databasesSome newspapers have been digitized…

Grace DuMelle of the Newberry Library joined us last night for an interesting and informative presentation on Chicago genealogy. She emphasized the address changes that took place in 1909 and the wealth of newspapers available for our area--there's more than just the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.Grace mentioned several databases that Cook Library subscribes…