National Library Week, Amnesty Observed. Holiday Reading Program Begins and ends January 4th 2002. Closed for Thanksgiving November 22 - 25. According to Heritage Quest magazine, genealogy has become the number one hobby in America.
Most public libraries have a genealogy collection, large or small.
Our relatively small one is shelved in a special cabinet called the West Virginia Case and is for use in the library only. We have just added locally published census records from 1810 through 1920 and birth, marriage and death records for Wood and all the surrounding counties. We also have many family and county histories, guides to doing the research, maps of dispersion throughout the US and directories of genealogical societies, archives and libraries. Through a subscription to Heritage Quest , we are able to order a census microfilm for patrons. As part of the workshop, she will guide researchers through the census books and other materials available at the library.