When: Wednesday evening, 12 May 2010. Where: Archives side of the Michigan Library and Historical Center, Lansing, Michigan What: To Celebrate the 2010 Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship Winner Who: Randy Riley is the winner of the 2010 Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship The Michigan Genealogical Council, in conjunction with the Michigan State Archives and…
Congratulations to Randy Riley, Special Collections Manager at the Library of Michigan on his receiving the Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship at the National Genealogical Society Conference in Salt Lake City last Friday. Here is the list of previous winners of the Filby Award: 2009: No nominees met the qualifications for the Filby Award in…
This is a photo gallery of some pictures taken during today’s “Hands Around the Library” Rally at the Michigan state Capitol, and the Michigan Library and Historical Center. The count of 494 in the circle didn’t include everyone who was there, so it’s safe to say a crowd in excess of 500 was there to…
Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings asks: “What event or person inspired you to start your genealogy research?” For me it was in early 1989, a few months after I’d bought my first Macintosh computer in November 1988. I attended a Moffat family Reunion in Balclutha, New Zealand arranged by an Uncle. One of my father’s cousins had…