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Josiah Schmidt to crack ancestral mysteries for STL County Library. Detective hat not included

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Josiah Smith

Josiah Schmidt is a new history and genealogy specialist at the St. Louis County Library.

His responsibilities include helping patrons access the many free genealogical and historical resources with a one-on-one session, delivering presentations and programs on various aspects of conducting research, caring for the collections of books and microfilms, coding software for the history labs and writing historical/genealogical articles for the library’s monthly publication.

A member of Central Reform Congregation, Schmidt will office out of the new Clark Family Branch on Lindbergh, opening on July 9. 

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