Free help for researching family history

May 28, 2009 at 5:10p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — Donna DeBlasio, director of Youngstown State University’s Center for Applied History, will head a free workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday on using historical sources to research family history.

“Be Your Own Historian” will be held in the meeting room of the main branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 305 Wick Ave.

DeBlasio will show how to use data from census records, city directories and other public documents to learn about when family members moved to the Mahoning Valley, where they lived, their occupations and more.

The program is open to the public.