Ask the Patch Pro: Researching Your Family Tree

It's time for another edition of Ask the Patch Pro, where each week readers get to interact with professionals by asking questions on a wide variety of topics. Our team of experts stop in to help you out and answer your questions.

This week, we've teamed up with librarians Jim Rhodes and Cynthia Millar to get all of your questions about genealogy research answered. 

Rhodes and Millar will answer reader questions in the comment section of this article on Wednesday, Sept. 18.

Have a question about about researching your genealogy or the tools available to do so at local libraries? Ask below!

Jim Rhodes has been the Information Resource Manager for Local History and Genealogy for the St. Charles City-County Library District since 2004.  Prior to that, he was the Manuscript Curator at the St. Louis Mercantile Library.
He is a graduate of Northeast Missouri State University (B.A. History 1990) University of Missouri--St. Louis (M.A. History 1995) and the University of Missouri—Columbia (M.L.S. 2002)He lives near Cottleville with his wife and two children. In his spare time he works on his own genealogy.

Cynthia Millar the genealogy librarian at the St. Louis City Public Library Headquarters. Millar has been with the library district since 1976.