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Scrapbooks: A Genealogist’s Gold Mine

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Scrapbooks: A Genealogist’s Gold Mine

This presentation is going to talk about the different kinds of scrapbooks and how to access them.

What You Will Learn

During this presentation, you will learn about the different types of scrapbooks and where they can be located.  We will also explore the varieties of records found in scrapbooks and why they are important to genealogy research.

Speaker

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and other countries for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known published book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for the past 21 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 35 years.

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Scrapbooks: A Genealogist's Gold Mine

7 Aug, 20257:00pm EDT1 hour

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