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If you live within driving distance of Pittsburgh or have ancestors who lived in western Pennsylvania, you have a great resource available to you! WPGS houses a collection of genealogical research materials at the Carnegie Library available 7 days a week.

Learn what’s in the collection, some great stories of discovery, and how to access the collection if you can’t make it to Pittsburgh. WPGS also has special resources available to members that you can access from home, along with a fabulous newsletter.

Listen in on how WPGS and the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library can help  new researchers and experts alike!

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Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society main site:  www.wpgs.org

Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library

Directions to the Carnegie Library, Oakland (Main Branch) - home of the WPGS collection and the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library

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Music: My Days Have Been So Wondrous and Free, composed by Francis Hopkinson in 1788 in Philadelphia, www.amclassical.com, Creative Commons license, some rights reserved.

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