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Attend Archives Without Tears in June! 

The Pennsylvania State Archives is excited to announce registration is open for in-person Archives Without Tears (AWOT) training this June at the Somerset Historical Center and Susquehanna University.

AWOT is a workshop that focuses on practical ways to preserve and make available the historical records in your care. Whether you are a curious individual collecting and caring for family or community materials, a local government employee tasked with records storage, a volunteer at a local historical society, the director of a large institution, or anyone in-between, we invite all to attend. You will receive practical advice and learn basic principles of archives.

Each workshop includes one full day (first day) and one half day (second day) of instruction.

Workshop dates and information:

Tuesday, June 9^th- Wednesday, June 10^th

Somerset Historical Center

10649 Somerset Pike, Somerset, PA 15501

Maximum registration: 40

Register online  or by calling (814) 445-6077 or emailing info@somersethistoricalcenter.org.

Tuesday, June 23^rd- Wednesday, June 24th

Blough-Weis Library, Susquehanna University

514 University Avenue, Selinsgrove, PA 17870

Maximum registration: 40

Register online  or call (570) 372-4327 or emailing garnett@susqu.edu.

Registration for each workshop is $40, which includes both days of training, coffee and pastries on both days, and lunch on day one.

We hope to see you there!

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New on Ancestry.com

  New Ancestry.com additions of Pennsylvania State Archives holdings are the 1916 &1917 birth certificates and the 1972 death certificates.  Go to the Archives page on Ancestry.com for more information.