Easton Library

The director and trustees want everyone to know that Ancestry.com is now available on all of the library’s public access computers.  This service is free for all library customers.  Come in, look for the Ancestry icon on the computer desktops and have fun researching family roots.

Ancestry.com is the world’s largest online resource for family history research.  It has been a leader in the family history market for over 30 years.  It offers an extensive collection of billions of historical records that have been digitized, indexed and put online since 1996.  Ancestry.com is a helpful tool for the most committed family historians as well as those taking their first steps toward satisfying their curiosity about family stories.

And now…. your library card will even help you do some family history research right from home.  Go to easton.sals.edu, click on ONLINE RESOURCES, and find Heritage Quest under genealogy.  You will need to log in using your library card number.   

Download to your Nook, Kindle, iPad, Android and more. 

They’re Free!

Stop by the library or give us a call.  We will be happy to arrange a time to help you get started.

Meets every Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

This exercise and education program for older adults encourages participants to take steps to build and maintain strong bones.  It is led by trained volunteers under the direction of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Warren, Washington and Hamilton counties.  To learn more about this program, stop by the library or call 692-2253.  Health forms required for participation are available at the library.

In the fall of 2009 writer and historian, Teri Gay launched her book Strength Without Compromise: Womanly Influence and Political Identity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century Rural Upstate New York.  The Political Equality Club of Easton is highlighted and the work of its two most ardent leaders, Lucy Allen and Chloe Sisson, showcases the Easton club members commitment to “votes for women.”

New York Archives magazine, in its Fall 2011 issue, also features the women of the Easton P.E.C. and the unique approch taken by those rural women in seeking to gain the vote.  Stop by the library to borrow this magazine and read The Suffragists of Easton also written by Teri Gay.

“Strength Without Compromise” is part of the Easton Library collection and is available for loan. Signed copies are available for purchase also at the library.