PCGS 10-Year Anniversary
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS!
Story by
Jim Hamilton
From the Bolivar
Herald-Free Press, August 4, 2004, page 17-A.
(Reprinted with permission. A big thank-you to BH-FP!)
The Polk County Genealogical Society hosted guests July 28-29
at the organization's library on the
southeast corner of the Bolivar square.
The open house celebrated the 10th anniversary of the PCGS and
the pending completion of renovations to the main floor of the
90-year-old Carnegie library building.
The society was formed in 1994 within the Friends of the
Library and became an independent society in 1996. The PCGS
was incorporated in August 1999 and became a not-for-profit
corporation in January 2001. In October of the same year, the
PCGS bought the former Polk County Library building and by
July 2002, the ground floor was renovated and opened.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic
Places a year ago.
A grant from the Delarue Trust in 2003 permitted renovations
to begin on the main floor. This year the society received a
state grant for preservation of government records.
"One of the society's goals has been to improve access to
primary source records and to increase
the availability of finding aids to further the work of
researchers in the pursuit of their family histories," PCGS
President Susan Sparks stated. "This has been an exciting
project; some of the records to be housed by PCGS in our
facility have not been utilized by researchers for many years
because of their location or condition."
Hours at the genealogy library are from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Contact PCGS at
777-2820.
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