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.
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It was nice to see you in the stacks, Randy.
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