Local History Department
Local History Department Hours
As of May 6, 2006, the Local History Department is open on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Uncovering Your Roots: A Beginner's Genealogical Workshop
Would you like to trace your family tree, but don't know how to start? In this beginning workshop, you will learn how to begin researching your genealogy; how to organize and record data on charts and forms; the types of records to research; and how to evaluate data that is discovered.
When: Monday, May 15 and 22, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Where: Tarentum Branch (400 Lock Street)
Cost: $5.00
Limited Class Size. Registration: 724/ 226-0770
For Sale:
Dozens of family histories. Click here for complete list and other details.
Wanted:
- Histories of area families, churches and organizations
- High school reunion booklets
- Donations of city directories for Alle-Kiski towns (No phone books, please.)
- High school yearbooks:
- East Deer and Frazer (all years)
- Deer Lakes (1972-81 and 1986-present)
- Har-Brack (1961)
- Highlands (1986-1990 and 1992-94)
- St. Joseph's -- Natrona (all years)
- Tarentum (1927 and 1929)
- West Deer (1942-1953)
- Will also accept yearbooks from other A-K Valley schools.
- Personal diaries of Alle-Kiski residents -- particularly diaries depicting daily life and/or historic events such as the Civil War, the town's first automobile, the 1936 Flood....We will gladly photocopy a diary with which you cannot bear to part.
To donate any of these items, please stop by the Tarentum library or call (724) 226-0770.
Veterans History Project
The Community Library of Allegheny Valley's Local History Department has become a collecting partner in the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project. Click here for more information.