Curious about your family's history? Join professional genealogist Katharine Korte Andrew to learn the basics of tracing your ancestry, from navigating vital records to building your family tree. Perfect for beginners, you'll learn essential tools and strategies to start your genealogical journey with confidence.

Revamp your visual content strategy to stand out in a crowded digital landscape. This presentation offers creative inspiration and practical tips for injecting vitality into your brand's visual content. Learn how to experiment with easy-to-use animation, dynamic imagery, and interactive elements to capture attention, engage audiences, and drive more clients to your door.

Our ancestors, like all of us, had their strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures. They may have been pillars of the community or lived on the fringes of society, or have been healthy their entire lives or battled disease. Orphanages, asylums, maternity homes, sanitariums, penitentiaries, and more institutions were some of the first and last places our ancestors may have spent their lives. In this webinar, we will cover the different types of records these institutions created, what they can tell us about our ancestors, and where we may be able to find them.

Many of us have hundreds of family photographs, documents, films, and more passed down to us, or even captured by us. These precious family memories are unique and important. But how can we preserve them to make them long lasting? Learn basic archival and digitization practices that you can adapt on a limited budget.

Whether you are in the stages of planning your trip or thinking of completing a lifelong dream on a budget, this presentation will discuss cost saving, budget friendly ways to travel through Europe, including accommodations, transportation, and more.

Through two case studies of early to mid-nineteenth century Hoosier women, explore different solutions to the difficult genealogical problem of finding information on a female ancestor who seemingly came from nowhere, and learn about resources that you can use.

In-person and on Zoom.

Weddings and marriages can be one of the happiest events in a person’s life, and for genealogists, the documents created by these unions leave behind some of the most useful vital records. Discover the history and hidden gems of marriage records, licenses, registers, certificates, and more.

In this two-hour workshop, we will discuss the complicated research process regarding institutional records: how to find long-gone institutions that our ancestors may have been residents in; the records that these orphanages, asylums, maternity homes, sanitariums, penitentiaries, and more institutions left behind; how to locate existing records from these institutions; and gain access to them. This workshop will include examples and a Q&A.

Join us for a talk with Lincolnwood Library's own Katharine Andrew to discuss the history of Lincolnwood and her new book, Images of America: The Village of Lincolnwood.

A short presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Midwestern Roots 2022 Conference: Emerging Professionals and the Young Researcher

Katharine Andrew, P.J. Elias and Daniel Luftus

Join the conversation on the future of family history and support the energetic young professionals influencing the field today. Chat with members of the Hidden Branch, an advocacy group of Generation Z researchers (born from 1995-2010) created to connect young professionals from around the world. Moderated by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center staff, we’ll ask the most pressing questions, and your own questions, for the younger historian.

Register on the conference website.