Librarian’s Report – Laurice Johnson
Laurice Johnson has been around genealogists since she was a teenager and although interested in the information her parents ‘dug up’ she let them do all the work of finding her roots. Imagine her surprise when her husband didn’t know his own grandmother’s name!! That was in 1980 and she has been researching her husband’s roots ever since but mostly since 1995. She joined TVGS in 1999 and served last year as the Volunteer Coordinator for the Library Helpers and is looking forward to her newest challenge as TVGS Librarian and helping others to find their roots through use of the resources available at our public library collection in Temecula.
One of the major goals of the Temecula Valley Genealogical Society when it began in 1998 was to enhance the Genealogy Collection at the local Library. The Society purchased books, periodicals, CDs and genealogy computers and encouraged members to donate books from their personal libraries to add to those purchased by the Temecula branch of the Riverside County Library System and donated by library patrons.
One of our founding members, Toni Perrone, secured a large donation of books from the Immigrant Library in Burbank. We ran out of room at the Temecula Library in 2000 and accepted the gracious offer of the Family History Center (FHC) in Murrieta to store books there until the new Temecula Public Library opened in December, 2006.
In January of 2007, the City of Temecula got the Genealogy Collection at the Temecula Public Library off to a great start by generously purchasing a large shipment of genealogy books to add to the books transferred from the Temecula County Branch and the Family History Center.
TVGS will continue with its efforts to add to the book, periodical and CD collection along with providing volunteers on a weekly basis to help library patrons with their genealogy research.
Library How To Pages
Page #1: How to reserve Genealogy Computer Time.
Page #2: How to use your Library Genealogy Computer.
Librarian’s Corner
It has been a busy time for us at the Temecula Public Library. We shelved 29 books and several collections of periodicals. Thank you again to Anne Miller, Wanda McKay, Carolyn Villiers, Barbara Wagner and Dotye and Gordon Summers for their recent donations and thank you to Dotye for your help in getting the − the Quakers in North Carolina, Dublin and Boston; Floyd County, KY Land Records; Cemeteries in Clay Co, IA and Martinsburg Co, WV; Vermont Newspaper Abstracts; two books about tracing your roots in Scotland and one about Germany; and books about early times in Morris Co, NJ, Baie de Chaleurs Parish, LA, and Baltimore Co., MD. The first three books with immigration and passenger lists by Filby were also shelved recently. If you have Mayflower roots, we have shelved two books that may help you − “Mayflower Families Through Five Generations” and “The Standish Families Compendium” (both have call number 929.2).
One of the changes in how we are shelving things is in the periodical/newsletters/pamphlets type of publication. These are all shelved together at one end of our section and are alphabetical by state or country. Here you will find newsletters from genealogical societies from Arkansas, Germany, Iowa, and several counties in Ontario, Canada. You will find vital records from Greene, Calhoun, Cherokee, Dickinson, Polk and Woodbury Counties in Iowa. There are 63 editions of “Your Family History”, which is published in Britain and is a wonderful resource for those who are doing research in England, Scotland, Ireland especially, but also other European countries. If you are doing research in New York or Virginia, check out the quarterlies from those states. We also have the New England Genealogical and Historical Register for several years as well as several years worth of “The New England Ancestor” magazine.
Our library collection currently holds over 550 titles with another 200 to be shelved in the coming months. Come in and browse a bit before the next meeting − we might just have that resource you have been looking for!
New Books shelved in the month of June 2008.
New CDs shelved in the month of June 2008.
