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Barbara Mulvihill, a retired librarian from Kansas, will share insights on accessing and utilizing the Freedmen's Bureau records, invaluable for researching post-Civil War individuals in the South.
The Freedmen's Bureau records, created by the federal government in 1865, are helpful when researching formerly enslaved individuals and those living and working in the South after the American Civil War. Barbara Mulvihill, a retired librarian from Salina, Kansas, will discuss how to access the Freedmen's Bureau Records and what types of information can be gathered from them. Sponsored by the Ozarks Genealogical Society.
The Library Center is the headquarters of the Springfield-Greene County Library District. The 82,000-square-foot building houses major collections of print and electronic resources. These include special collections such as business and local history and genealogy; public Wi-Fi computers, four private study rooms, five small conference rooms, a kitchen and state-of-the-art reference technology. In addition, the Library Center includes other amenities characteristic of larger urban libraries. Those features include a 150-seat auditorium, a glass-enclosed reading room and art gallery, a story hour room, outdoor patio and outdoor story garden and the Between Friends Gift Shop.