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I described my activities at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana in Day 7 on the Seaver Midwest Genealogy Tour. Here are some pictures that I took during my visit:
1) On the wall opposite the second floor walkway leading to the Genealogy Center:
The sayings on the wall include:
* "We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom" -- Maya Angelou
* "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering" -- Theodore Roosevelt
* How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mother's names." -- Alice Walker
* "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." -- Edmund Burke
* "For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
2) The entrance to the Genealogy Center has an interesting display about Abraham Lincoln's ancestry, complete with an ancestral char (descendants of Samuel Lincoln)t:
3) The main reading room near the national, state and county history books looks like this:
4) I was looking for books in the stacks, and geneablogger Tina Lyons (GenWishList) found me to say hello:
5) In the reading room with the family history books, there were two ladies doing a land records project for a Kentucky county:
They were creating land maps from the deed records and then trying to tape them together in the proper place relative to geographical features and other land maps. This is a really daunting project for a local genealogical society to attempt because of the three-dimensionality of the project - latitudinal and longitudinal location and time of the records - especially in a State Land state that does not use ranges, meridians, townships, sections and aliquot parts.
Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2021.
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It was nice to see you in the stacks, Randy.
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