Monday, September 18, 2006

Family History Festival at DPS

The Detroit Public Library, Main Branch, is having a day long Family History Festival on Saturday, September 30th. Details and schedule of events.

I didn't realize it but the DPS has the complete collection of the Sanborn Maps online. There will be a session showing how to access this database at the Festival.

Technology Training Center – Dawn Eurich, Sanborn Atlas Database.

Learn the value of this amazing new web service – Detroit Public Library is one of the few libraries in the nation to subscribe to the entire historical Sanborn Fire insurance atlases database. National in scope and sure to become one of your favorite tools for your family history research.