[Genealib] Terrific article - Zanesville, OH librarian - ...and there was my family laid out in front of me. Right in front of me!

[Brannan, Joyce]

I imagine that most of us working in genealogy have had similar things happen.  I was working in a Family History Center when one woman lamented not being able to find her family in west New York.  She had been looking for years, had spent lots of money on films, etc.  Off the top of my head, I said, "You do realize that there is a town named West New York  in New Jersey on the Hudson River, don't you?"  She looked at me blankly, and I pulled out a film that I had ordered that included the soundex for the census she wanted.  Within 10 minutes, we had located her families.

Joyce Adams Brannan
Resource Management/Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470
205.652.3677
jbrannan at uwa.edu

From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Oathout
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:57 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists; Sandy Day
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Terrific article - Zanesville, OH librarian - ...and there was my family laid out in front of me. Right in front of me!

I was at an LDS Family Center one time when a lady called up and talked to the attendant.  She calmly hung up and announced to the room "Get this, that lady said she wants her entire family tree, and would be by in 10 minutes to pick it up!"  :-)  The whole place erupted in laughter.......So much for patron privacy, but it was a hoot.

Larry Oathout
Director
Tell City-Perry County Library
Tell City, IN 47586
812-547-2661
(Fax) 547-3038
www.tcpclibrary.org<http://www.tcpclibrary.org>

-----Original Message-----
From: "Sandy Day" <daysa at oplin.org>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:57:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Terrific article - Zanesville, OH librarian - ...and there was my family laid out in front of me. Right in front of me!
Tom
Boy don't we ALL wish for situations like this. I was in a library in IN one
day searching for Day family and the librarian said oh you are going to be
delighted. We have lots on this family. When she went to the file to obtain
it, it was missing! So thanks for sharing this anyway. Maybe someday...
Sandy Day
Genealogy Librarian
Schiappa Library
Steubenville OH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kemp" <thomas.j.kemp at gmail.com>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:10 PM
Subject: [Genealib] Terrific article - Zanesville,OH librarian - ...and
there was my family laid out in front of me. Right in front of me!


> You'll want to read this story about Paula Todd - genealogist,
> volunteer librarian at the John McIntire Library in Zanesville, Ohio.
> She tells her experiences in genealogy at the Zanesville (OH) FHC:
>
> I was at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at their
> family center. That's the Mormon Church on Kearns Drive. They are tied
> into the world's largest genealogy center out in Utah. I walked in not
> knowing what I wanted to find out, except I wanted to find out about
> the Ethell family. I heard some woman in the back of the room say, 'I
> have Ethells in my family.' And I thought, 'Oh, sure, that's probably
> no relations of mine at all.' But whoever was at the desk put me on a
> reader of some kind. A census reader to start with. And pretty soon
> the woman in the back came and laid this Ethell book beside me. I
> copied it off just to be nice to her if nothing else because she was
> going to such great lengths. And I got home and looked at that and
> there was my family laid out in front of me. Right in front of me!
>
> Read the entire article at:
> Kearns, Charlie. Genealogist Looks Back. 12 April 2009 Zanesville (OH)
> Times-Recorder.
> http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20090412/NEWS01/904120337
>
> or:
> http://blog.genealogybank.com/2009/04/paula-todd-genealogist-librarian.html
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