Family history month is celebrated
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BY SHARON BURNS

Published: October 20, 2008

October is Family History Month, and the Oklahoma History Center Research Library is celebrating with a Lock-In and Book Sale from 5:30 p.m. Friday to 7:30 a.m. Saturday in the library at the history center, 2401 N Laird.

Activities include minisessions about family history research, various records and collections. Special discounts and offers will be given. Preregistration of $50 is required. Dinner and breakfast are included. To register, call the research center at 522-5225.

Also as part of Family History Month, the history center and the OHS Kids! Web site invite students to enter the "This Is My Family” student art contest. It is open to students in grades 1 through 6, divided into two grade-level categories. Students can use pencil, crayon or paint to show how they see their family. First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded in each category.

Entries will be accepted until Oct. 31. Winners will be announced the second week of November on the OHS Kids! Web site, www.okhistory.org/kids. The artwork of the winning students and honorable mention recipients will be framed and displayed in the Oklahoma History Center.

Entry forms and contest details are posted online at www.okhistory.org/kids/contests.html. For more information, call Jennifer Towry at 522-4019 or e-mail kids@okhistory.org.

Genealogy notes

→Derek "Deke” Arndt, associate state climatologist, will be the featured speaker at the Cleveland County Genealogical Society meeting at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in the CSBI classroom, 1119 E Main, Norman.

Arndt will present "Winds of Change: 10 Weather Events That Impacted History in Oklahoma and Beyond.” The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call the society’s library at 701-2100 between 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday or e-mail CCGS@csbi.org.

→The Tulsa Genealogical Society Mini-Workshop, "America Goes West — Steamboats & Waterways,” with Steve King will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at 9136 Briar Village Shopping Center. The workshop is a fundraiser with a suggested donation of $7.50. For more information, contact Judy Strout at (918) 663-6363 or go online to www.tulsagenealogy.org.

→The Oklahoma History Center will present "Oklahoma Territorial Records” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 29. Although much of the 1890 U.S. Census enumeration was destroyed, there are other valuable resources available to assist with early Oklahoma research such as the 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census, "Smith’s First Directory of Oklahoma Territory” and many more documents.

Preregistration of $10 is required. Lunch is included. To register, call 522-5225.

If you have a question, event, idea or experience to share, e-mail Sharon Burns at sburns@opubco.com.

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