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Exploring Genealogy
Library Center in the auditorium
10 a.m. for adults
Tips for Research at FamilySearch.org. Local History Associate John Rutherford will discuss the website's catalog, which items are indexed, finding your family in the non-indexed digital records and the difference between submitted family trees and the global tree Sponsored by Ozarks Genealogical Society.

Exploring Genealogy
Library Center in the auditorium
7 p.m. for adults
"Queen for a Day!" Eric Wells, OGS member and education coordinator for NextGen, created a video of his grandmother's experience being a grand prize winner on the old TV show, Queen for a Day! Find out how Eric used family research, his grandmother's photos and an audiotape found in an attic to create an interesting "memory" for his family Sponsored by Ozarks Genealogical Society.

Exploring Genealogy
Library Center in the auditorium
10 a.m. for adults
Ireland and Its Religious Wars. Tom Strong, attorney with Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C., will discuss the centuries-old conflict between the Catholic and Protestant people of Ireland, St. Patrick, King Henry VIII, the potato famine and Irish Civil War, and what we can learn from the Irish experience Sponsored by Ozarks Genealogical Society.

Exploring Genealogy
Library Center in the meeting rooms A and B
7 p.m. for adults
Tracing Your World War I Ancestors. Local History Associate Michael Price will present techniques for researching your ancestors who fought in World War I. Although millions of WWI service records were destroyed in a fire, learn how to use surviving documents to discover your ancestors’ wartime experiences Sponsored by Ozarks Genealogical Society.