What should you do when a certain official vital record cannot be found do to fire or other incident? Search for the next best thing. This session will discuss reliable, unofficial records.

At each program, authors will speak, followed by a question and answer session. This event is free, but registration is preferred. For other Genealogy and Local History fair events and offerings, visit https://www.toledolibrary.org/genealogyfair/.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG, AGL, FOGS, has an amazing ability to bring laughter into the lives of her audience members.

For forty years, Peggy has been a frequent lecturer at Family History seminars and has presented at Brigham Young University, and ICAPGen, and taught Continuing Education classes at community colleges and The Ohio State University. She was tested through ICAPGen to become an Accredited Genealogist, a credential she has maintained for twenty-eight years, working hard to polish her research skills.

Recently retired as a featured columnist in Reminisce magazine, she has written several Legacy QuickGuides, and has filmed as an instructor for Ancestry Academy. In 2018, she was honored to be awarded Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society and received the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy. Most recently she was honored by the National Genealogical Society by being awarded the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists. Peggy and her husband Kerry serve as FamilySearch Center Directors in northcentral Ohio.