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The Evergreen Library is featuring a “Love Through the Ages” exhibit which includes several romantic heirlooms on loan from members of the Mountain Genealogists Society. Visitors can see:

• A 50th anniversary photograph of Jacob and Sarah Cooke (ancestors of Dale Devine)
• The “wedding quilt” of Sophronia Geller (ancestor of Kathy Krieger)
• An ornate marriage certificate for William and Laura (Rathbun) Bay (ancestors of Dale Hoffman)
• … and more.

To read the stories that accompany these keepsakes, see Stephen Knapp, “Mountain Genealogists display romance through the ages,” Wednesday, 14 February 2007, Canyon Courier. Online version < www.canyoncourier.com/story_display.php?sid=4862 >.

Hank Jones will be the featured speaker at a seminar sponsored by the Longmont Genealogical Society on Saturday, 8 September 2007.

Mr. Jones is a nationally recognized speaker and author. He is the author of Psychic Roots and has written numerous books on Palatine genealogy.

The seminar will take place at the Marriott Hotel in Longmont. The cost of the all day seminar is $30.

The topics to be presented are:

• When the Sources are Wrong!
• Tracing the Origins of Early 18th Century Palatine & other Emigrants
• Family Tradition: How to Separate Fact from Fiction
• How Psychic Roots Became an Unsolved Mystery

For more information visit the Longmont Genealogical Society Web site.