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Education Corner: Organize Those Photos

by Linda Bergren Polich. Looking for a winter genealogy project?  If you have boxes and boxes of printed photos (like I do), this would be a good time to sort and organize those photos! If your printed photos are sorted and labeled, Congratulations!  However, if you have acquired several boxes of […]

Education Corner: October is Family History Month

By Linda Bergren Polich. October is Family History Month! How will you celebrate? This is a good time to assess your research. Check your document list to see which records you are missing.Request those birth/marriage/death records you need.Check to be sure you have sources attached to each fact for everyone […]

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Education Corner: Is this the year?

By Linda Bergren Polich. It’s a new year … how will you make the most of it? Is this the year that you will organize your genealogy research? Just do a little bit at a time, so you can easily find what you’re looking for! Is this the year that […]

Grandma’s Box of memories: What to keep for family history

Do you have a box in your attic full of items you inherited from an ancestor? The Rock Island County Illinois Genealogical Society partnering with the Moline Public Library will present a free program giving suggestions for dealing with those items you inherited from your ancestors.  Come to this session […]

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Education Corner – It’s all about Tradition

By Linda Bergren Polich.  October is Family History Month, so I thought it would be fun to talk about Family Traditions. Let’s start with a definition …  TRADITION – “the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc. from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by […]