October is Family History and Archives Month
October ushers in fall… with its cooler weather, harvesting, football and Halloween. It is also South Dakota Archives month. Celebrating family history month is a time to recall family members and activities from the past and preserving it for future generations. One of the local resources available for your use is the Carnegie Resource Center at 119 W. 3rd Ave in Mitchell. (www.MitchellCarnegie.org)
You may spend as much or as little time as you wish researching your family’s history, getting those long outstanding questions about a relative answered, or organizing a photo album. Available at the Carnegie Resource Center to help you are cemetery records and pictures, obituaries, city directories, school census records, files on businesses and people, school yearbooks, some marriage records, Corn Palace records and pictures and newspapers.
Your local library is another source to explore for genealogical information. The Mitchell library has an archives room with newspapers, county histories, obituaries and also Ancestry Plus on the computers. Tell your state representatives how much you appreciate your public library’s genealogy resources.
Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Rick Geyerman
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