October 8, 2019 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 3rd Floor Conference Room, CLP-Main, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA As a genealogist, you are likely also the keeper of family treasures. Come meet with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s preservation librarians to learn the best way to take care of these items. Bring a photo, document, paper/book item, or…
October 9, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm South Wing Reading Room, 2nd Floor, CLP-Main, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA This dual-purpose session will highlight some of the unique maps in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s collection, as well as share tips for using maps in your genealogical research. There are a number of maps that focus on Pittsburgh, and we’ll…
October 15, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 3rd Floor Conference Room, CLP-Main, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA Learn how to interview and record family members’ stories in their own words. This session will share tips to prepare for and conduct interviews, as well as recommendations for easy-to-use recording equipment. FREE. No registration required.
May 11, 2019 10:30 am – 12:00 pm South Wing Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main Branch Presented by Ray Jones, Ph.D. Ancestry DNA has recently begun to test several new features that have some promise in assisting us in our family history research. In this 90-minute workshop, we will briefly review the…
March 28, 2018 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pennsylvania Room, Third Floor, Carnegie Library Main Branch, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh
April 18, 2018 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pennsylvania Room, Third Floor, Carnegie Library Main Branch, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh
October 7, 2017 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CLP REcollection Studio, Third floor Learn tips and tricks for creating digital copies of treasured family photographs in CLP’s new REcollection Studio, their digitization lab. Participants will get an introduction to scanning photographs, various file formats for photographs, and naming files so they can be found later. Participants are…
October 12, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CLP REcollection Studio, Third floor Learn tips and tricks for creating digital copies of treasured family photographs in CLP’s new REcollection Studio, their digitization lab. Participants will get an introduction to scanning photographs, various file formats for photographs, and naming files so they can be found later. Participants…
October 17, 2017 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CLP REcollection Studio, Third floor Learn tips and tricks for creating digital copies of treasured family photographs in CLP's new REcollection Studio, our digitization lab. Participants will get an introduction to scanning photographs, various file formats for photographs, and naming files so they can be found later. Participants…
January 16, 2018 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm A special LIVE webinar by DNA expert Blaine Bettinger has been made available by North Hills Genealogists and will be shared with the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society and the CLP Pennsylvania Department. Learn how testing companies create ethnicity estimates, the accuracy of the estimates, and ways to…
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