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Citizens Library offers free genealogy courses

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If tracing your family tree is on your bucket list but you’re unsure where to start, Citizens Library is offering three, free courses on genealogical research, beginning this month and continuing until October.

Donna Edwards-Jordan of North Huntingdon, who has 25 years of genealogy experience, will provide the three-part series beginning with “Coming to America,” scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 17.

The session will address finding the immigrant ancestor that American families have in common. Finding such ancestors is the ultimate challenge of research, according to Edwards-Jordan, because we want to know not only where our ancestors came from but knowledge about their lives before they came to America. The program will provide not only the history of immigration to America but tips for finding your own immigrant ancestors.

According to Edwards-Jordan, ancestry research can be difficult but it offers real rewards, not only with the opportunity to explore Old World roots but by opening up the possibility of making connections with existing relatives and families in other countries.

Edwards-Jordan has been leading workshops on family history since 2005. She is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution, Queen Aliquippa Chapter.

She provided genealogical and local history material for author Kimberly Hess’ biography of Fayette County suffragist, industrialist and philanthropist Sarah B. Cochran.

She offers a wide range of genealogy talks to libraries, historical societies and civic groups on topics that include starting a family tree, Irish genealogy, Scottish heritage, and working with the U.S. Census records, marriage and death records.

The series will include “Finding our Foremothers” at 6 p.m. Sept. 21 and, in October, “Step Away from the Computer,” at 2 p.m. Oct. 22.

The series is being sponsored by the Friends of Citizens Library in conjunction with the library.

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