Genealogists traditionally have done their research in dusty old courthouses and libraries for many years. When computers came along, this all changed. Now researchers can get documents off the internet without stepping foot in a courthouse or library.
“With all the changes, research looks very different than what your grandmother did,” officials with the Genealogical Society of Rockingham and Stokes counties said. “Researchers spent hours looking for birth, death and marriage records as well as wills and estates. Today, companies like Ancestry have a search engine that can bring up these records in seconds. Some AI can even read the cursive handwriting.”
The Genealogical Society will be meeting on Sunday, July 13, at 2:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Danbury Public Library, at 1007 Main St. in Danbury, to take a look at programs which can do that…