Archives: Events
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Rose Park Baseball photos
During COVID, the Salt Lake City Library’s Day-Riverside branch worked with a generous citizen to scan and provide public access to hundreds of historic Rose Park Baseball photos and documents. The collection celebrates and archives the beloved program, as well as memorializes the coaches and players that have participated over the years. This is a…
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Digging Through History’s Dumpster: The Woman’s Exponent Advertising Database
In 2019 the Marriott Library worked with BYU’s Lee Library to re-digitize a complete archive of Woman’s Exponent, a newspaper published in Salt Lake City from 1872-1914. While the work to transcribe the complete text is ongoing, every advertisement from the paper was transcribed, cataloged, and made available in a searchable web database in 2021. Dr.…
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Using the FamilySearch Wiki
The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online, genealogical guide that helps you find ancestors from around the world. Learn how to effectively navigate and use the Wiki to find websites, databases, records, and research strategies. Presented by Family History Library. To register go to https://bit.ly/36D49CJ
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Organizing Your Genealogy
Researching your family produces stuff, including names, dates, places, families, documents, newspapers clippings, pictures, charts, DNA results, and much, much more. Understanding what you have found, determining whether that information is valid, planning the next step in your research, and finding that information again later on all requires that you spend time organizing that stuff.…
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A Glimpse into the Societies of the Mid-Atlantic States
There are many types of societies that dedicate their resources to the preservation of materials especially helpful to genealogists. Many of these collections are unique and not available elsewhere. Explore some of the resources held by genealogical, ethnic, and other historical societies of the Mid-Atlantic region. Presented by the Family History Library. To register go…
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Terrace Utah, Population 0
Utah’s desert sands have buried incredible stories – now it’s time to uncover what has been lost. Hustling and bustling to starkly quiet, the life of one of Utah’s largest railroad towns of the 1870s-1890s remains part of the historical and archaeological record. Archaeologists with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and the Bureau of…
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Talking Trees: Love Songs from Ancient Egypt
Hear Cynthia May Sheikholeslam Online in NHMU’s fall series: Stories from Egypt. Collections of love songs are known from several New Kingdom papyri discovered in the village of Deir el-Medina at Thebes (Luxor). Probably connected to festivals for the goddess of love, Hathor, the songs employ imagery drawn from the environment (such as the sycamore…
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A Marvelous Work: Reading Mormonism in West Africa
Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp will present as part of the USU University Libraries’ Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture series. Maffly-Kipp’s lecture will discuss how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pamphlets, books and other church materials circulated in West Africa two decades before official missionary work began, leading to a unique “native” Mormonism.…
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Teaching and Researching with the Collections
The UMFA invites you to a three-part virtual lunchtime series featuring lightning talks with University of Utah researchers working with art and archives from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections. This session will feature: Ana Carolina Antunes, Utah Immigration Stories: Connecting Past to Present through Art and Photography Adrian…
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Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry – Live Discussion
The book Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry, chronicles the life of local civil rights advocate and community leader Alberta Henry. In this virtual discussion, author Colleen Whitley will discuss her work in authoring Henry’s biography. Dr. France Davis, retired Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Betsey Welland, Senior Archivist in Special Collections, will…