McKeesport, PA - The McKeesport Heritage Center will host the program: Climbing Your Family Tree: Beginning Genealogy, presented by Marilyn Holt, MLS, from the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This program provides an introduction to the process involved in searching for your family roots - How to find the who, when and where of your family! Beginning with information gathering from family tradition and oral history interviews, the methodology of recording, organizing and storing your family history is reviewed. Resources discussed will include census schedules, vital records and courthouse resources, Church and Cemetery records, and immigration and naturalization records. Marilyn Cocchiola Holt, MLS, is Department Head of the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Past President and Director of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Genealogy Society of Pennsylvania. Ms. Holt has worked with genealogical patrons for 24 years and has presented numerous programs on local and family history topics, as well as teaching courses on genealogy since 1988. This program will be held on March 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm at the McKeesport Heritage Center, 1832 Arboretum Drive, McKeesport PA 15132. It is free for members of the Heritage Center or $5 for non-members, and anyone interested is welcome.
Thank you for that information. I would just love to be there Great work! Deirdre in Ireland. -----Original Message----- From: pa-pittsburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pa-pittsburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Sent: 12 March 2008 20:09 To: pa-pittsburgh@rootsweb.com Subject: [PA-PITTSBURGH] Genealogy Program McKeesport, PA - The McKeesport Heritage Center will host the program: Climbing Your Family Tree: Beginning Genealogy, presented by Marilyn Holt, MLS, from the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This program provides an introduction to the process involved in searching for your family roots - How to find the who, when and where of your family! Beginning with information gathering from family tradition and oral history interviews, the methodology of recording, organizing and storing your family history is reviewed. Resources discussed will include census schedules, vital records and courthouse resources, Church and Cemetery records, and immigration and naturalization records. Marilyn Cocchiola Holt, MLS, is Department Head of the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Past President and Director of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Genealogy Society of Pennsylvania. Ms. Holt has worked with genealogical patrons for 24 years and has presented numerous programs on local and family history topics, as well as teaching courses on genealogy since 1988. This program will be held on March 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm at the McKeesport Heritage Center, 1832 Arboretum Drive, McKeesport PA 15132. It is free for members of the Heritage Center or $5 for non-members, and anyone interested is welcome. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-PITTSBURGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message