

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Badges and Bloodlines-Free Genealogy Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 am – Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Spend the day digging deeper into your family history at this hands-on genealogy workshop focused on records connected to law enforcement — including sheriffs, police officers, and the Texas Rangers.

Whether you’ve always heard there was a lawman (or outlaw!) in the family tree or you’re just beginning your research journey, this workshop will introduce practical tools, key records, and expert guidance to help you uncover new stories.

Throughout the day, you’ll learn how to locate and use:
• Personnel and service files
• Sheriff and police records
• Texas Ranger archives
• Newspaper stories and historical context
• Cemetery records, private collections, and more

Our lineup of local historians, librarians, and research specialists will walk you through real case studies, common myths, research strategies, and the best places to search — so you leave with clear next steps for your own family research.

? Schedule Highlights:
Doors open at 8:30 AM
Sessions run 9:00 AM – 3:50 PM
Lunch on your own from 12:30 – 1:30 PM

This event is co-sponsored by the Central Texas Genealogical Society.

✨ Registration is required. Join us for a full day of discovery, history, and hands-on learning — and see what stories are waiting in your family’s past.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/waco/badges-and-bloodlines-free-genealogy-workshop/200029747768946
- **Event Categories**: Workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://calendar.wacolibrary.org/event/14926042?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=waco-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Waco
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: West Waco Library & Genealogy Center
- **lat**: 31.533708948354
- **long**: -97.194825922187
- **full address**: West Waco Library &amp; Genealogy Center, 5301 Bosque Blvd, Waco, TX 76710-4200, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Waco-McLennan County Library (https://allevents.in/org/waco-mclennan-county-library/15358501)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** West Waco Library &amp; Genealogy Center, 5301 Bosque Blvd, Waco, TX 76710-4200, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Waco-McLennan County Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Badges and Bloodlines-Free Genealogy Workshop ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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