Thanksgiving Holiday Closings

All Rock Island Library buildings will close at 6pm Wednesday, Nov. 27, and remain closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28 & 29, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Library2Go routes are also cancelled. 

Stay in touch with our digital services and PrairieCat app! All locations reopen on Saturday, Nov. 20 with normal 10am to 2 pm hours. 

Online Genealogy: Using Multiple Online Genealogy Programs to Find Your Ancestors

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Once more our online genealogy expert, James Tanner, will guide the amateur genealogist to find the best ways to use the vast sources that can be mined through the internet. This evening’s program will seek to combine the advantages of each major online portal which opens to the materials that have been digitized and made available to the computer screen, either of our home computers or opening to the view of those working on their projects at the free public library computers. These several genealogy sites can complement each other when their individual strengths are combined. Mr. Tanner will give you more tips and insights to help you on your way to family discoveries.