West Routt Library District

Helps to locate county histories, certificates, records, migration trails and more throughout the U.S. and 19 other countries.

"The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located - a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her father, and Anna, a wild child hungry...

Fully revised, this book explores the major sources of data available to family historians online and highlights the most useful directories and gateways. Suitable for those starting out and experienced researchers alike, this book features the recent developments online in areas such as births, marriages and deaths indexes.

A guide for tracing one's ancestors via various means. An appendix describes how to use a number of available government resources.

"One Little Snake River Odyssey is a different kind of memoir. It recounts the lives of the three St. Louis siblings - David, Kenneth, and Rita - especially their 1950s and 1960s childhood in the sheep and cattle country of northwest Colorado. It's a world of 4-H experiences, a one-room schoolhouse, and precious connections with others in the lonely country where the mountains give way to high desert...The history of the St. Louis family is the history...

Clara Fitzgerald's recent losses have set her adrift, personally and professionally. Remembering the stories her mother used to tell her, Clara decides to research her ancestry-only to uncover an extraordinary link to Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. With her sister in tow and the help of Kay, a retired Shelley scholar, Clara embarks on a search for the author's long lost journals and letters. As a bond among the three women grows, and as the profound...

A compilation of short fiction journeys from the Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake Huron.