Museum Director to Lead Free Class in Tracing Family History

The Internet has revolutionized the search for family history. Ancestry.com advertises that it’s as easy as clicking on a leaf, but is it really? 

Most people don’t know that the Ocean City Free Public Library has a subscription to Ancestry.com that anyone with a library card can use.  The trick is you have to be in the Library’s Computer Center to use it, but once you are there you get access to other useful databases, too!

To help you get started Jeff McGranahan, director of the Ocean City Historical Museum will lead a five-week class titled, "Genealogy 101: Techniques and Tutorials," that will give you some background, share some of his experience and provide assistance as you being to navigate the past online and off. 

The classes will run from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursdays from Feb. 21 through March 21 in the Ocean City Free Public Library Computer Center.  Workshop is free, but registration is required and space is limited.  Please call 609-399-1801 to reserve your seat.  Basic computer skills and experience with the internet required.

While still new to Ocean City, Jeff McGranahan has been doing family history professionally since 2001. Part bloodhound, part puzzle-solver, he loves helping people find their own personal path through history. 

 The Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 4 pm.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

— News release from the Ocean City Historical Museum