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ONLINE Back to School:

Making the Most of School Records in your Family Tree

2021-03-18 18:30:00 2021-03-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago ONLINE Back to School: Learn about the many ways you can access cool details about your ancestors by using school records: yearbooks, schedules, teacher’s registers, directories and much more. Access sent to registrants. Zoom -

Thursday, March 18
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2021-03-18 18:30:00 2021-03-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago ONLINE Back to School: Learn about the many ways you can access cool details about your ancestors by using school records: yearbooks, schedules, teacher’s registers, directories and much more. Access sent to registrants. Zoom -

Learn about the many ways you can access cool details about your ancestors by using school records: yearbooks, schedules, teacher’s registers, directories and much more. Access sent to registrants.

Learn about the many ways you can access cool details about your ancestors by using school records like yearbooks,school schedules, teacher’s registers, school newspapers, alumni directories and much more. This is one class you won’t want to ditch.

Tina Beaird, owner of Tamarack Genealogy, is a genealogy & local history librarian at a mid-sized Chicagoland public library. She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science degree with a specialization in Archives/Preservation from Dominican University in River Forest, IL. Tina has won multiple research and digitization grants over the last decade to preserve and digitize historic documents and photographs.

Contact the Ask Us Desk at askus@dglibrary.org with questions.

Participant Zoom instructions:

Registration with email address is required. The webinar link and password, along with handouts, will be emailed to participants the day before the program. If you do not receive it by 5:00 p.m. the previous day, please contact the library.

Virtual programs adhere to the Library's Video and Photography Policy. Participants should be aware of their privacy settings before logging into the program. 

This program will be presented through a live Zoom webinar.

Instructions for joining a webinar are available here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115004954946-Joining-and-participating-in-a-webinar-attendee- and their Privacy Policy is here: https://zoom.us/privacy/

DGPL staff will be monitoring email before the program to assist with logon issues.

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