Local History Center AUGUST PROGRAMMING Address: 102 N Main Street, Bryan, OH 43506 Phone: 833-633-7323 x 275 WEEKLY PROGRAMMING How to Properly Clean Gravestones, August 17th, 11:00AM Gravestones tend to degrade and get covered in moss. Learn how to properly clean gravestones, and go home with the necessary items to later clean a stone by yourself. Meet at the Fountain Grove Cemetery. Register. SEPTEMBER PROGRAMMING Family History Kits, September 5th, 6:00PM Interested in researching your family history but don’t know where to start? Join Local History Manager, Jared Schnee for this informational program and go home with a Family History Kit. Register. Riverside Cemetery Tour, September 14th, 5:30PM Williams County Public Library and the Friends of the Montpelier Public Library are partnering for a unique local history event. Join WCPL Assistant Director Denver Henderson as he conducts an in-person tour through Williams County’s largest cemetery and discusses the history of the cemetery, the stories of unique individuals buried there, and the architecture of tombstones. Meet at the Riverside Cemetery mausoleum to start the tour. FREE EVENT & registration is not required. OCTOBER PROGRAMMING Researching Your Ancestors through DNA, October 9th, 6:00PM With the recent popularity of DNA testing kits, they serve as a great resource and tool for Genealogy Research. DNA kits can tell what ethnicities a person is and who they might be related to. Join Local History Manager, Jared Schnee for this educational program. Each registered participant will go home with an Ancestry.com DNA kit to dive deeper into Genealogy research. Register. 7th Annual Fountain Grove Cemetery Tour October 26th, 6:00PM Join WCPL Assistant Director, Denver Henderson as he continues the autumn tradition in Bryan: an in-person tour of the historic Fountain Grove Cemetery. This year participants will explore the “Titans of Business and Industry” focusing on those individuals and families that have shaped the economic destiny of Bryan and Williams County, along with tombstone architecture and symbolism. This tour will begin at the Fountain Grove Cemetery mausoleum. This is a FREE EVENT and registration is not required.
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