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Discover Your Family's History: Genealogy at the Cincinnati Library

Program Length: 3 minutes

Cincinnati's Public Library, along with the Library of Congress, ranks in the top nine of U.S. genealogy libraries. The list of resources at the Main Library is extensive and continues to grow. Here's a video overview of the basic elements you can find. Also, John Bryant describes his search for his ancestors.
Archaeology in Shawnee Lookout
Shawnee Lookout has been a center of activity since prehistoric times. Dr. Ken Tankersley talks about the University of Cincinnati summer field school he leads there. Evidence recovered from this archaeological dig indicate that this site has been continously inhabited by Native Americans from the time humans first arrived in the Ohio Valley until the time of European contact. Dr. Tankersley explains how scientists know that the living conditions on the site changed over time and how the people adapted to those changes.
Discover Your Family's History: Genealogy at the Cincinnati Library
Cincinnati's Public Library, along with the Library of Congress, ranks in the top nine of U.S. genealogy libraries. The list of resources at the Main Library is extensive and continues to grow. Here's a video overview of the basic elements you can find. Also, John Bryant describes his search for his ancestors.
Hahn Site Field School
Bob Geinheimer, George Rieveschl Curator of Archaeology at Cincinnati Museum Center, gives us an overview of the Archaeology Field School that takes place at the Hahn Site each year. The Hahn Site is a Late Prehistoric village site located near Cincinnati, Ohio. Preliminary excavations by Peabody Museum at Harvard in 1886 uncovered an array of prehistoric items including flint, stone, bone, ceramic, and shell artifacts. While little was learned of village layout, subsequent surface collections in the 20th century indicate that Hahn is a circular to oval village with a central plaza. CMC's dig has exposed a portion of a wall trench house dating to the Middle Fort Ancient period (ca. A.D. 1300-1500) and two corners of the wall trench structure. Field school participants learned about the prehistory of southwest Ohio, the development of sedentary agricultural villages, and the importance of the Hahn Site in our understanding of local Fort Ancient-age societies.