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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We are happy to celebrate Family History Month in October with webinar/training opportunities with ProQuest trainers on HeritageQuest Online. Your local genealogy
society members are also welcome to attend. Teachers will be interested in using HeritageQuest for classroom Family History assignments! One of the Introduction and Beyond the Basics webinars will be recorded. Please see below for content and registration
information and share widely!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Introduction to HeritageQuest</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Did you know that HeritageQuest Online is now powered by Ancestry.com? Join us for this course which will cover tips for using HeritageQuest for family history projects,
new search pages for the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790-1940, more than 28,000 family and local history books, Revolutionary War and Freedman's Bank collections, and the U.S Serial Set of action of the U.S Congress. Join a ProQuest Training & Consulting
Partner to walk you through all of the exciting features. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">October 13, 2015 @ 9:30 am Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=715183770&t=a">https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=715183770&t=a</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 22, 2015 @ 3:30 pm Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=710620213&t=a">https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=710620213&t=a</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">HeritageQuest: Beyond the Basics</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Join a ProQuest Training & Consulting Partner to learn specific search strategies for many of the major collections in HeritageQuest, especially the Census,
the Books, the Revolutionary War records and the Freedman’s Bank Records. This 60-minute session is packed with information about each of these collections and tips for searching them. Other collections will be explored if time allows.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:30am Eastern</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=717832528&t=a" target="_blank" id="LPlnk584924"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=717832528&t=a</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Tuesday, October 20, 2015 3:30pm Eastern</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=714438160&t=a" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?d=714438160&t=a</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Also, the page you access when visiting this link is our standard registration page. On the top left side of the page (next to Event Status), you will find the registration
link for each webinar. After registering, participants will receive an email with meeting access information and the meeting password. Registrants will also receive two additional reminders - one two days before the webinar and one two hours before the webinar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0">Deb Biggs Thomas, MA AMLS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Michigan eLibrary & Outreach Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Library of Michigan/Michigan Dept. of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">702 W. Kalamazoo St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Lansing, MI 48909<br>
Phone: 517-373-4466<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;background:white">The Library of Michigan is pleased to share a new video series highlighting Michigan libraries and how they are making a difference in their communities. To experience Michigan
libraries in a new light, v</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">isit
<a href="http://brightside.cedam.info/"><span style="color:blue">http://brightside.cedam.info/</span></a> and watch the 21<sup>st</sup> Century Libraries episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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