Ancestry.com resources are available to library patrons

Please note: The public library will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28, as well as Friday, Nov. 29, in recognition of Thanksgiving. Enjoy the holiday.

TaleSpinners Storytime will meet at the library this coming Monday, Nov. 25, at 10:30 a.m. Preschool-aged children and their caregivers are invited to attend this 30-minute activity for ages 7 and under. This week’s story time will be Thanksgiving themed. We are excited to see you and your little one at the library.

Ancestry.com Library Edition is available for all to use in the public library on either our public access computers or your own personal device. Ancestry Library Edition is the full worldwide Ancestry with access to billions of records around the globe. With census records, military records, extensive immigration and vital records worldwide, you are sure to find plenty to populate your family tree.

New book

This week’s new book is “From Here to the Great Unknown” by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. Here is the publisher’s synopsis: In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter Riley Keough to help finally finish her memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and it looked like the world would never know her story in her own words, would never know the passionate, joyful, caring and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.

So Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts with her friends in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her world-famous father, Elvis Presley, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her lifelong relationship with David Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in comm on. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About eve r-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world. To make her mother known. “From Here to the Great Unknown” is a book like no other — the last words of the only child of an American icon.