Hello,
I wanted to send a friendly reminder to all genealogists who may be
planning to make out-of-town research trips in the future.
It is always a good idea to call ahead to your planned destination to make
sure your trip runs smoothly. Last Friday, a couple arrived in Knoxville
eagerly looking forward to researching in the East Tennessee Historical
Center.
This couple drove 700 miles from Texas and arrived on Friday morning to
find the McClung Historical Collection closed for the day! The Knox County
Library System (of which the McClung Historical Collection is a part)
closes one day a year for a staff training in-service day. As fate would
have it, it was the day the researchers from Texas arrived in town.
We were all naturally quite upset for them. It was an expensive, but
valuable, lesson learned. *ALWAYS* call in advance before visiting an
out-of-town research site. In addition to the various national holidays,
you never know what local holidays or other events may conspire to change
the normal operating schedules of various research sites across the
country.
On our part, we will try to keep everyone updated of the East Tennessee
Historical Center's schedule adjustments through these mailing lists and on
our web page at
http://www.korrnet.org/eths/
Good luck in all your ancestor hunting.
Sincerely,
Shane S. Rhyne, Public Relations Coordinator
East Tennessee Historical Society
P.O. Box 1629, Knoxville TN 37901-1629
ETHS(a)netstarcomm.net
http://www.korrnet.org/eths/
***Please note ETHS cannot respond to online requests for research
assistance at this time. For a listing of professional researchers in this
area, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to ETHS at the address in the
signature above.***