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Intro to Fold3
CanceledFold3 is home to a variety of historical U.S. military records. For anyone interested in utilizing Fold3 for genealogy or historical research. Bring a name or two to the open research time focused on searching military records.
Volunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Registration required (6 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Local History Librarian Rachael Bussert will lead participants through a tour of Special Collections rare books and archival material that tie in with the 2023 Summer Scares adult book selections.
Registration required (5 spots remaining)Register for eventAuthor and Historian Marshall Weiss will explore Dayton-area responses, actions, and inactions connected to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. This talk will include stories of how Dayton’s Jewish and German immigrant communities interacted,…
Volunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Registration required (20 spots remaining)Register for eventInterested in house or business history? Curious what your neighborhood looked like in 1918? The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company created over 40,000 wonderfully detailed maps of Ohio cities and towns from 1882-1962 for insurance…
Registration required (7 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Charlotte is a 2021 animated biographical drama film that tells the true story of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. It is…
Registration closes June 7 at 12:00am (159 spots remaining)Register for eventIn coordination with the Miamisburg Historical Society, the Dayton Metro Library is offering a walking tour of Millionaire's Row in historic Miamisburg. The walk starts at the Miamisburg branch library and continues through the nearby…
Registration required (12 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Registration required (30 spots remaining)Register for eventJoin us every other month to read and discuss historical fiction and nonfiction. For June, we’ll be reading True Grit by Charles Portis. You can find both physical and digital copies here.
Please register in advance.
Registration required (50 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
This program will look at the current immigration landscape within the historic context of the 1930s and 1940s as depicted in the Americans and the Holocaust exhibit and the Ken Burns documentary The US and the Holocaust. Panelists: Dr.…
Volunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Volunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Interested in family history and want to learn more about how the genealogy database Ancestry.com can aid in your research? Join us for this introductory class on the basics of Ancestry. Be sure to bring the name of an ancestor or two to…
Registration required (7 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Registration required (30 spots remaining)Register for eventVolunteer docents will help you explore and reflect on the exhibition in greater depth through a 25-minute guided tour. www.DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Exhibits
Find out about the Gist Settlers of Southwest Ohio and Randolph Freedmen of Western Ohio. Descendants are encouraged to attend to connect with other descendants.
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