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We are available to help you with your family history or local property research. Expanded Local History and Genealogy Research Assistance Available! A lot of us are spending time at home researching our distant relatives or thinking about the history of our neighborhoods or houses. In order to help patrons who may not be able to visit the Library, the Local History and Genealogy Department at the Covington branch is offering more options for patrons to connect with staff to get help with their research needs. Starting Monday, July 6, 2020 patrons can schedule a one-hour appointment via a phone call or online through a virtual meeting. Appointments are available Monday - Friday between 10 AM and 4 PM. Invitations for virtual meetings will be sent via email. Patrons can still request an in-person one-hour appointment as well. To schedule an appointment, please call the Local History and Genealogy Department at (859) 962-4070. To get the most out of your appointment, be sure to have a specific research question in mind, and bring or prepare any materials you may have pertaining to the question, so that we can best utilize the appointment time. Common appointment topics include: introduction to genealogy, research on a specific ancestor, assistance with online genealogy databases, or the basics of property research.  

For many of us, our idea of normal has changed drastically in the last 30 days (and continues to change daily!), and we’ve settled into new routines. We’re changing our habits: staying home, eating out less, cooking more, taking more walks, navigating schooling at home - the list goes on. Eventually, things may return to exactly the way they used to be, and we’ll switch up our routines once more. Many years down the road, people will ask us what it was like to live through the COVID-19 pandemic, just like we’ve asked our ancestors what it was like to live through the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919.  That said, now is the perfect time to consider preserving some of the memories we’ve made and new routines we’ve fallen into. It may not seem important now, but we are making history! Imagine if your grandparents or great-grandparents had kept a diary or scrapbook for the Spanish Influenza Pandemic and passed it down through the generations - you would have a firsthand account of someone who lived through a major historical event! That, my friends, is gold to historians.  There are so many ways to document your journey: a daily journal, a scrapbook of photos and clippings, or folding all of these items and more into a time capsule!  Journaling Journaling is a great way to keep track of little, day to day details, and big happenings alike, that you may not remember with clarity years down the road. Sometimes it’s the small details that make history so very interesting to go back and read into! A daily journal entry can be as long or short as you like it to be. Consider jottings down things [...]