Fire in the Local History Room: Book Scanner
As many of you know, the library offers several scanners for patrons to use. The bullet scanners are perfect for standard 8.5″x11″ documents and the flatbeds will take care of almost everything else. However, if a patron has something brittle…
African American Cowboy Stories
The popularity of the song Old Town Road by Lil Nas X might be making readers curious about the history of African Americans in the western United States. We’ve compiled a collection of non-fiction and historical fictional books to get…
Two Easy Photoshop Tools Any Genealogist Can Use
I had a Genealogy Christmas Day last weekend, and it was glorious. For nineteen years, my parents have been hoarding a ton of older photographs from my grandmother’s estate in their basement. Everything was housed in plastic tubs, while not…
FindMyPast Library Edition Arrives at Fountaindale Public Library!
What can you find on FindMyPast Library Edition? Here’s a quick list of what the site provides: United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland) & Ireland Millions of genealogical records Comprehensive Vital Records indexes Census records…
Frederick Douglass Exhibit (Summer 2019)
We are proud to host the Frederick Douglass exhibit from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. This national traveling exhibit uses reproductions of period artifacts to examine slavery and abolition through the life of one of the most famous men…