Fincastle Librarian Paige Ware was talking about the new genealogy fair that will be held in the fall at the Fincastle United Methodist Church Family Life Center.

Ware and Rena Worthen (pictured here) are helping to organize the genealogical event that will be Saturday, 13 October, 2007. The name of the fair is Start Exploring Your Roots, and they hope it will become an annual event. The first fair will be part of the Botetourt County’s participation in Jamestown 2007 events that are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the establishment of that English colony.

Some of those genealogical research materials that are available at the Fincastle Library include copies of the Layman family Bible, the Snyder Bible, the Kessler files, the Brugh collection, cemetery records, funeral home records, many editions of The Fincastle Herald that are on CD-ROM, The Buchanan News and The Fincastle Herald on microfilm and other genealogy and historic learning tools.

The fair is being sponsored by the Botetourt Genealogy Club, Botetourt County Historical Society, the Virginia Room at Roanoke City Library, Homespun Legacy, Bedford Historical Society and the Fincastle Library. For more information, Worthen can be contacted at the Fincastle Library at 473-8339.

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