Mar

10 2024

Museums Have Records Too! Locating Your Ancestors behind Closed Doors

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

PO Box 19736
Portland, OR 97280

Contact Janice Sellers
JGSOregon@gmail.com
https://jgsoregon.wixsite.com/home

Melissa Barker will present methodology to help with family research.
The meeting will be via Zoom, free and open to everyone.

Genealogists are always looking for places where records could be located.  More and more of these records are being found in places that are not your typical archives, library, or genealogical society.  One of these places is a museum.  Many museums have back rooms filled with genealogical and historical records just waiting for a genealogist to discover them!

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum.  She is known as The Archive Lady in the genealogy community.  She writes a popular blog titled A Genealogist in the Archives.  She has been a professional genealogist for the past 19 years with expertise in Tennessee records.  She has been researching her own family history for the past 33 years.

Sponsor: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon