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Branch Out with Obituary Research

Ancestry.com Library Edition is a great tool for researching your family history, but it isn’t the only resource out there. If you’ve mostly used Ancestry up until now, it may be time to begin searching some other databases that can help you add more branches to your family tree.

Obituaries are important sources of family history research because they contain information about a person’s life, such as birth and death dates, and they can often help you discover the names of relatives. more: Branch Out with Obituary Research

Take a History Walk in Locust Grove Cemetery

Take a self-guided audio tour of the Locust Grove Cemetery in Nicholasville. Learn about former community members as you visit their graves.

Share a picture of your favorite stop on the tour, and we will enter you into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card.

Use the hashtag #JessamineHistoryWalks and tag or DM @jesspublib on Instagram or @jessaminecountypubliclibrary on Facebook. Or you can email your photo to [email protected].

Contest ends November, 30, 2020. JCPL employees and their families are ineligible to win prizes. more: Take a History Walk in Locust Grove Cemetery

Your Vote Counts

CivicJess offers information and activities on issues facing the Jessamine County community and beyond.

Inform yourself and earn badges along the way. Plus, participating allows you to earn entries in our monthly drawings for a $50 Amazon gift card. Get started on Beanstack. more: Your Vote Counts

Classic Reads

On this episode of the Books & Bites podcast, we discuss classic reads of all kinds—including, of course, horror and comics....

Take a History Walk in Maple Grove Cemetery

While you are Walking Around Kentucky this summer, why not learn a little bit of history?

Take a self-guided audio tour of the Maple Grove Cemetery in Nicholasville. Learn about former community members and the shapes and symbols of their headstones as you visit their graves.

Share a picture of your favorite stop on the tour, and we will enter you into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card.

Use the hashtag #JessamineHistoryWalks and tag or DM @jesspublib on Instagram or @jessaminecountypubliclibrary on Facebook. Or you can email your photo to [email protected] or [email protected].

Contest ends July, 26, 2020. JCPL employees and their families are ineligible to win prizes.

more: Take a History Walk in Maple Grove Cemetery