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The Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society will hold its monthly meeting Aug. 20 in the society's library at 128 Bingham Road, Suite 950, in Asheville.

We received an overwhelming number of questions about getting started with genealogy and overcoming roadblocks in family history research.

Last Modified: Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 10:41 p.m. A mentor group brought a dozen boys to the Terrebonne Parish Main Library Saturday to teach them how to get the most out of the building's resources.

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The topic will be "Show and Tell" so, please bring your favorite item, photo, or suggestions to share.

Looking for birth mother. I was adopted in February of 1963. I was born November 23,1959. White Female, possible last name at birth was Johnson.

William Williamson married Mary Wilson in county Monaghan, Ireland, about 1815-20 and they had 10 children, 8 of whom lived and came to America c. 1838 on the ship Lotus, as per the NYC passenger lists index found on Ancestry.com... they moved on to Philadelphia, Pa.

The many friends and acquaintances of Michael Leclerc will be interested to learn that he is moving on to new adventures.

In "Off Duty," The Herald asks community leaders about their interests - what they're reading, what they're listening to, what they're watching.

Libraries evolve from warehouse to 'mall for the mind' Vivian Sade The Journal Gazette Samuel Hoffman The Journal Gazette Roger Crawford researches local theater history using film scanners in the library's genealogy department.