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The W.I.S.E. Family History Society is sponsoring a day of British Isles Genealogy lectures on Saturday, 6 October 2007. Author and lecturer, Sherry Irvine, MSc., CG, FSA Scot, will be presenting the lectures. Sherry has coordinated and taught the courses on English and Scottish genealogy at Samford since 1997 and led BIGHR study tours from 1996-2006. She has lectured at the ISBGFH British Institute in Salt Lake City for the past five years.

Registration will take place from 9-9:45 a.m. in the Gates Conference Room-Level Five, Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Schedule:

Morning
10:00 - 11:00 - “Researching in Britain and Ireland? What is in your online Tool Box?”
11:30 - 12:30 - “My Bankrupt Scot”

Lunch- on your own

Afternoon
2:00 - 3:00 - “Wills Online-England and Wales and what can be done?”
3:30-4:30 - “Migration in the British Isles”

There will be a $25 materials fee.

For more information contact Nancy Craig, Registrar at (719) 598-4447 or minngirl@earthlink.net.

Pre-register by 1 October to guarantee handouts.

The September edition of Denver Public Library’s Manuscript Collection News is now available at the DPL Web site.

Some highlights from this issue are:

• Captain Hildreth Frost Papers (WH144)
• Adelaide French (WH155). Miss French was an active genealogist; in 1994 she was inducted into the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies’ Memorial Hall of Fame (David S. Vogels Award).

• Louisa Ward Arps Papers (WH1234). Papers and photographs from 1880 to 1985.
• Jane Silverstein Ries (WH1785). Denver’s first woman landscape architect.
• 10th Mountain Division: America’s Alpine Warriors Exhibit

• Western History (7 items)
• Conservation Collection (2 items)
• 10th Mountain Division (7 items, all personal papers of veterans)

Past issues are also available. The July News, which includes a description of the Byers Family Collection (”Hidden Treasures”), is available here; the August News has a condensed description of the procedures the library uses to process donations, and is available here.

The Archives staff of the Denver Public Library (DPL) will conduct a free “Elements of Preservation” Workshop on 6 October 2007. You can learn how to keep photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts safe, and you will be able to get a look behind the scenes of the Western History Collection.

For the workshop and tour schedule, as well as other DPL news (fairs, classes, exhibits, meetings), see the “News, Exhibits and Classes” page at the DPL Web site.