Have you come across accounting or financial records in your research? Are you tempted to skip them? Don’t! Alison Herring, a former Audit Senior Manager in a global accounting firm, will discuss historic financial records and how you can use them to shed light on genealogy and other research projects. These records, while often tedious, can be a marvelous source of information on the lives of the people you study, the economic conditions they lived in, and the decisions they made. Alison will demonstrate some practical ways to approach these documents and share examples of the insights you can learn. Alison is currently researching the Powell Family Papers, which are held at Swem Library at William & Mary.

Pre-registration is required for this event. Please call 703-737-7195, email balchlib@leesburgva.gov or register online https://tinyurl.com/TBLEvents