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My family came to America in the 1600's from England. My great uncle traced our family tree back hundreds and hundreds of years. He did it the old school way by visiting libraries and courthouses and yes...graveyards.
Now there are simple ways to research my family history and it's interesting that demand for libraries keeps growing (169 million users) and yet they are facing the biggest budgets cuts ever. This is the reason we need to individually support our local libraries. We may use it for genealogy, doing homework, research, borrowing valuable resources, creating a resume, finding a job online, etc., but we each must stand up for libraries.
It's cool because now I work for a genealogy technology company and we use resources from libraries all over the United States. I'm also sharing this cool infographic which tells the story.
