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    1. [ROOTS-L] Announcement: Genealogy Workshop in Chester County
    2. Bucklaw, Kimberly F.
    3. Chester County Historical Society to Host Genealogy Workshop Saturday, April 21, 2012 (West Chester, PA) Are you a fan of the television show "Who Do You Think You Are?" Would you like to learn where you come from? Join us at the Chester County Historical Society to learn how to "Discover Your Family Tree." In a morning workshop, Chester County Archives Assistant Archivist and genealogist Kim Bucklaw will present two main sessions: "Getting Started in Genealogy" and "Chester County Records and Genealogy." She will also host a special bonus session "Breaking Down Brick Walls" during which she will work with 10 lucky researchers to bust down brick walls from their personal research. All attendees are welcome to sit in on the bonus session. The half-day workshop will take place on Saturday, April 21 at Chester County Historical Society, 225 North High Street in West Chester. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. The cost is $10.00 for CCHS members and $25.00 for non-members. For more information and a registration form please visit www.ChesterCoHistorical.org or call the Chester County Archives at 610-344-6760. The Chester County Historical Society is a not-for-profit educational institution whose mission is to promote an understanding of the history of Chester County and southeastern Pennsylvania by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting that history and its relationship to the region, and nation beyond, to audiences of all ages and interests. CCHS's library has collected materials documenting the diversity of the county from the 1680s to the present. The library houses collections of printed volumes (25,000), and manuscripts (500,000) including letters, diaries and other personal papers, business and organizational records, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, audio-visual material and genealogical material related to the history of the county and surrounding area. For more information, call 610-692-4800 or visit www.ChesterCoHistorical.org. Created in 1982, the Chester County Archives was established to preserve and make available the historic public records of Chester County. The archives currently holds over 2,940 volumes and 1,823 cubic feet of original records and is a primary destination for genealogists, property researchers, local historians and academics researching all facets of Chester County history. For more information, call 610-344-6760 or visit www.chesco.org/archives. *** Hope to see some of you there! Kim Bucklaw Chester County Archives and Records Services This County of Chester e-mail message, including any attachments, is intended for the sole use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone this e-mail message including any attachments, or any information contained in this e-mail message including any attachments. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Thank you very much.

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