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Turning Folklore to Fact

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by Susan Weinberg


“I often get thrown out of archives and museums at closing time,” I remarked.


I was at the local Family History Library with a genealogy client as we watched closing time quickly approach, too quickly.


“Most people say that about bars,” he quipped. 


I burst into laughter. Yes, I thirst for information and art! The places we don't want to leave are indeed telling.


We had come to the local Family History Library (FHL), a small room with computers housed in a Church of Latter-day Saints, a satellite library to the mothership in Utah.


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