Are you looking for ways to further your family history research? One of the best ways to do this is to learn how others are facing their genealogy challenges. Ancestry, the company which makes the online resource Ancestry.com available, has announced it is sponsoring a new television show debuting on NBC which features real people…
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Time to Start Vegetable Gardening
Now that we are past the Vernal equinox, the sun is stronger and it's time to start planting/planning for the 2020 growing season. If you have pepper, tomato, eggplant or basil seeds, you should be starting them now to transplant outside in 6-8 weeks. Plant them in small containers/flats, a few seeds in each container/cell…
Free Photo Colorization from MyHeritage
Would you like see your family's black and white photographs in a new light? You may want to look into a service offered by the genealogy online resource MyHeritage. The company revolutionized the world of online genealogy web sites recently when the company announced that anyone could upload black-and-white photographs to MyHeritage.com and then the…
Historical Newspapers
Something you might wonder about when staying safe inside is how people rose to meet other challenges in history. A good way to find out is through historical newspapers. In these you will be able to find headlines, articles, pictures, opinions and the even the weather report at that time. Here are Mount Prospect Public…
New Web Resource: Newspapers.com Library Edition
Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive online database of 4,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s. It contains a diverse blend of well-known regional and local newspapers in the U.S. and other countries. Here, you will find articles from The Daily Herald from 1902 to 2009. Find all newspaper resources on the…
Getting History Right: Mayflower’s 400th and Your Own Family Story
Thanksgiving Day, 2019 marks the start of the 400th annual celebration of the landing of the Mayflower ship at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The celebration committee is working hard to look beyond the myth of Thanksgiving and colonial experiences to better tell the stories of the women of the Mayflower and the Native American tribes which lived…
New Genealogy Resource
October is Family History Month, and the Library is celebrating by announcing the acquisition of My Heritage, a genealogy subscription database. Like Ancestry Library Edition and Ancestry.com, My Heritage has indexed census, vital records and family tree information. My Heritage,however, can be accessed at home by Mount Prospect Public Library cardholders! To find more clues…
Food for Mount Prospect Families during the Summer
Summertime can be full of fun times and fabulous food. For some families, however, it can mean going without. Children who qualify for school lunches are often not able to get as much nourishing food during the summer. In Mount Prospect families with school-age children who receive free or reduced-price lunch at school can obtain…
Mount Prospect in the Illinois Digital Archives
This website hosted by the Illinois State Library offers images and descriptions of historical items in libraries and museums across the state of Illinois. Mount Prospect’s history is represented by three collections. The items included in these collections are primarily from the collections of the Mount Prospect Historical Society and the Mount Prospect Public Library. Dimensions…
Mount Prospect in the News
Events in Mount Prospect over the past 100 years have been documented by a few local newspapers; occasionally the Chicago Tribune would make brief mentions of the village, and the Daily Herald has been a source of Mount Prospect news since 1901. Two other newspapers were focused just on Mount Prospect. Both papers document life…
