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2025 Genealogy Workshop
2025-11-08 09:00:00 2025-11-08 15:00:00 America/Chicago 2025 Genealogy Workshop Join the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for a day-long workshop designed for genealogists, family historians, research professionals, and community leaders in the newly renovated Main Library’s Darragh Center. Main Library - 529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

Saturday, November 08
9:00am - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-08 09:00:00 2025-11-08 15:00:00 America/Chicago 2025 Genealogy Workshop Join the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for a day-long workshop designed for genealogists, family historians, research professionals, and community leaders in the newly renovated Main Library’s Darragh Center. Main Library - 529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

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529 | Fred Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom

Join the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for a day-long workshop designed for genealogists, family historians, research professionals, and community leaders in the newly renovated Main Library’s Darragh Center.

Join the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for a day-long workshop designed for genealogists, family historians, research professionals, and community leaders in the newly renovated Main Library’s Darragh Center. The 2025 Genealogy Workshop offers a fresh, multidisciplinary approach to genealogy research and personal archiving with featured speaker Kate Forry Guanci from Archoral.com.

What to Expect: 

  • New For You: Genealogists, Family Historians and Research Professionals 
    A different look at how to gather and present your genealogical research findings.
  • Inviting Community Service 
    Expanding the view of what historical societies and museums can do in their communities.
    LUNCH BREAK
  • Family Care through Aging  
    Dignity through the aging process by using the memory care toolkit.
  • Small Business Opportunities  
    How you can help your community with digitizing and historian services. 

Featured Speaker: Kate Forry Guanci, CEO Archoral.com 

Kate Forry Guanci is a former film industry professional turned entrepreneur, caregiver, and innovator. With over 25 years as a prop master, she built a reputation for creativity, precision, and problem‑solving. She now brings that expertise to Archoral.com, the platform she founded to help families and communities preserve their histories. Guided by her experience as a full‑time caregiver to her husband living with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Guanci blends caregiving, genealogy, and cultural archiving to uncover the details that define people’s lives. Deeply community‑oriented, she offers audiences not just abstract ideas, but practical insights rooted in lived experience and collaboration. 

Event details: Doors open at 9:00 AM; program begins at 9:30 AM. Free parking is available in the surface lot or the CALS parking deck which you can access from Rock Street. Please bring your ticket into the event for full day validation. Snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the workshop. Registration is encouraged but not required to attend. This event is in person and will not be livestreamed.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History & Genealogy |

TAGS: | RobertsLibrary |

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