The DAR Library, within the Heritage Center at the Fresno Public Library, has twenty-four new titles which you may want to access in your search for your ancestors. Thank you to the following chapters for their generous donations to the library this past year: Sierra Amador, Piedmont, Commodore Sloat, San Andreas Lake, Gold Trail, Clara Barton, Los Cerritos, Gabilon, and General John A. Sutter Chapters.
The new titles, which will be available on the library website in late August, are:
The American Revolution
Nine Months in York Town
Newport & Kibesillah – A Tale of Two Mendocino County Coastal Logging Towns in Northern California by Kathleen M. Niven
The Woodville Republican MS Oldest Newspaper Vols. 1-5
Newspaper Abstracts from Cecil and Harford County, MD
Newspaper Abstracts from Allegany and Washington County, MD
Leslie County Kentucky Marriages
Family Maps of Genesse County, Michigan
Delayed Birth Records, Sacramento County, CA
1865-1980, Sacramento, Co. Coroner’s Records Collection 1887-1969 Vol 1&2, Bks 1-6
Women Proprietors or Sole Traders, Sacramento, CA 1850-1930
Family Maps of Hennepin County, Minnesota
Abstracts of Chancery Court Records, 1669-1782 MD
Family Maps of Owen County, IN
Family Maps of Kootnai County, ID
Alabama 1850 Agricultural Census, Vol. 1
Lee County, Kentucky, Births, Deaths, and Marriages
The 38 Women of the “Women Airforce Service Pilots” WASP The Some, Who Gave All by Celeste Cox.
If you would like someone to do a “look up” in one of these selections the following people are there to help you. Please email one of them at: Melissa Scroggins, Library Director and DAR member at Melissa.Scroggins@fresnolibrary.org , or Corky Peterson, DAR member at corksterr@att.net , or Dar Joneson at darwebster@sbcglobal.net.
The Fresno Public Library is a Family Search affiliate which you can access from many websites by going to their library website. The library is also available for chapter tours and paper parties. Melissa Scroggins, Library Director, can be reached at Melissa.Scroggins@fresnolibrary.org for more information.
Linda Winthers
State Librarian
librarian@californiadar.org