Family History at Shellbrook Public Library

Search results on www.Ancestry.ca, the a subscription-based genealogy research website, using Librarian Alanna Carswell's name.

The Shellbrook Public Library has a new tool in its family history discovery box, but it will disappear if unused. Story Time continues with the themes Letter Sounds echoing in the Library and our computers continue to provide free public Internet access.

The Library’s excellent local history book collection holds histories of families of the town and surrounding communities and provides access to many beyond. This collection is well used and now another tool in the family research box is coming to the Library on a trial basis.

From now until December 1, all branch libraries of the Wapiti Regional Library system have free access to www.Ancestry.ca at the Library. Ancestry is a subscription-based genealogy research website with billions of records online. You may have seen Ancestry’s tempting advertisements and been curious to know what you could discover about your family history in their collections spanning census records, to birth, marriage, and death data, to the military to maps and atlases, land titles and will collections and more.

For those who would appreciate some company on their journey of discovery, Nancy Carswell, a member of the Prince Albert Branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, will be at the library Thursday, November 22 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Carswell will be inviting her fellow members for the “Come and Go” evening and also encourages anyone who is familiar with Ancestry to drop in and share their experience.

Children’s Story Time is held on Fridays at 10:30 am. We welcome all comers age 1 to 5, old and new and are sure you will have fun listening to good stories and making fun crafts. This year’s theme is Letter Sounds with each week covering two letter sounds. By the end of October, children will have 7 consonants and 1 vowel to read their first words. If you are interested in volunteering your time to read or do crafts, please contact Alanna at 747-3419.

The Library continues to offers free computer and Internet access to the public even with the cancellation of the Community Access Program (CAP) in March 2012. Would you like to bring back funding and keep public computer access for everyone? Drop on by the Library to sign a postcard to the Prime Minister. Shellbrook Library hours are Monday 2:00pm - 6:00pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 8:00pm, Thursday 2:00pm - 6:00pm, and Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm. Weekly library hours are determined annually by materials checked out; the more materials checked out, the better.