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    Exercise YOUR INTELLECT

    Aug 15, 2020 4 minutes

    BEGINNING GENEALOGY: A CRASH COURSE

    Newberry Library

    You could take a DNA test to discover you’re 0.01 percent Icelandic. Or you could find rich stories about your particular relatives in this three-hour session at the city’s premier historical research library. The Newberry is renowned for its genealogical records, which it has been collecting since 1887. They include everything from the family trees of colonial Americans to legal and military records spanning the United States, Canada, and the British Isles. Beyond just teaching how to search the databases, Marsha Peterson-Maass, author of Fundamentals of Genealogy, will impart lessons on the creative thinking and diligence it takes to become a private investigator into your own lineage.

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