Overcome the challenges of searching for your Chicago area relatives. Discover resources that family historians often overlook, including fire insurance maps, inquest records and probate cases.
Grace DuMelle, family researcher and historian at the Newberry Library, will present tips from her award-winning book, Finding Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginners Guide to Family History Research in the City and Cook County.
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