Traveling west - again (The Marion Star)
We can always find an excuse to travel west in this beautiful country we call home. This trip was originally planned around attending the Triennial Gathering of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which was held in Salt Lake City in July.
Group to unveil pictorial history of Webb City during reception (The Joplin Globe)
WEBB CITY, Mo. - Some old postcards, photographs of the once operational mines and a history of the town's first championship sports teams help tell Webb City's coming-of-age story in the second volume of the town's history.
Briefly - Club happenings (The Examiner)
The Jackson County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Truman/Amtrak Depot building, 1111 W. Pacific Ave., Independence. Following a short business meeting, society member Barbara McTygue Scanlon will be speaking on Irish genealogy and the challenges of Irish surnames.
Interlibrary Loan for Genealogists (About.com)
Most public and academic libraries in the United States offer a great service, often overlooked by genealogists, called Interlibrary Loan (ILL). This service allows a local library to borrow a...
‘Bus-eum' rolling to library soon (The Neosho Daily News)
"Held in the Heartland: German POWS in the Midwest 1943-46" is the program literally rolling into the Neosho-Newton County Library parking lot on Monday. Inside a "bus-eum" - a converted school bus that is now a mobile museum with its own 21-seat theatre - the prisoner's story will be told through narrative texts, artifacts and multi-media.
