Last Sunday afternoon marked the official ground breaking for the Santa Barbara County (California) Genealogical Society's Sahyun Library addition. First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, major expansion donors, top SBCGS officers and expansion chairpersons, and the project architect turned the first shovels-full. Each person who attended this groundbreaking also took their turn with a golden shovel.
The expansion will create a new stack room and multi-media area and will enlarge by 92 percent the footprint of this family history research library.
You can read more in an article (with photographs) by Cari Thomas and John Woodward in the edhat.com web site at http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=29713
