Word Of The Week
Breeches Bouy: A device used by lifesaving crews to extrect persons from wrecked vessels, usually fired from a cannon onto the deck of the wrecked vessel. (Wisconsin’s Great Lake Shipwrecks)
Ancestry.com Offers Access To U.S. Military History
Since the American Revolution more than 43 million men and women have served in the U.S. Military. Now Ancestry.com is offer access to 90 million records associated with American Military history. Providing genealogists with a valuable new tool to discover their family’s military heritage.
These records document the more than 3.5 million soldiers lost and the millions more that were wounded in battle. Documentation dates back to the first English Settlement in Jamestown in 1607 and they have records as recent as the Vietnam War’s end in 1975. Records even document those soldiers that have tragically left us during the War in Iraq.
These records are available free to the public until D-Day (June 6, 2007) where provided by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. It took Ancestry.com over 1 year to digitize the collection. There efforts will assist to fill in many of the missing historical gaps in genealogy research.
Word Of The Week
Thermocline – the layer of water in a lake in which the temperature changes 10C with each meter increase in depth. (FishResource.com)
Word Of The Week
Sockdologer: (Sock-dol-a-ger) A conclusive blow or remark. Something really outstanding. (Answers.com)
Word Of The Week
Zythum: (Noun) A drink made in ancient times from fermented malt.
On another note this is the last word in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Fifth Ed., v.2, p.3718)
May’s Book Display
This month we are highlighting biographies from our collection. Whatever your interests, we are sure to have something you will love!
*Just in case you don’t know, our display is located on the second floor of the library, near the Information Services desk.
Welcome!
The staff at the Belleville Public Library would like to extend a warm welcome to our new CEO, Mark Gagnon. We wish him well in adjusting to life in a new city and library! 
