All students also attend prep meetings to be prepared and help plan the trip agenda. 100 students do their own fundraising to pay the $1625 needed to fund their way. Along with the relief workers and students the group also brings 2 tonnes of supplies. The trips are 7 days and since 2003 have just been with the Georgian Students for simplicity and logistical reasons. The teams have partnered with Rayjon Share Care, an ecumenical charitable organization. Sue has been on the service trips for 15 years and is very well versed in how to plan and what is required. Sylvia returned with Sue Boderic who is taking over directorship of this 23 year old program.
Sylvia Vanderveut spoke to us last year about a project taking Georgian College nursing students to the Dominican Republic / to do health relief work. Please check out the Library's clubs, services and programs to enjoy all it has to offer, including its MakersSpace and Achive Rooms. These are larger than than the membership ones that can be purchased and includes extensive WWI records of metals and movement of troops. The library also has an extensive and Free to the Public Library Version of the Ancestry.ca databases. These resources include family heritage databases, find a grave databases, as well as providing research recording forms to ensure you capture all of the information and can keep it organised. The Library has an extensive set of resources to help you do research in many areas of family and local history.
The area of genealogy has grown continually in popularity as people put more value in oral and written histories and as more and more databases around the world come on-line. We are pleased to welcome Kim from the Midland Public Library who has taken up the reins of Ancestry and & Genealogy from Bonnie Reynolds our long time Library Historian and Keeper of the Kids.
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