Tom Mullins, who recently retired from the Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun, discussed the resources available for genealogical research in the library’s Alabama Room during the January meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
His program was definitely an incentive for me to start learning more about my ancestors and descendants and to find the pathways that traced their lives.
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