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MAY 19, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 into your family roots this Saturday By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes If you’ve seen enough Iris Festival parades in your lifetime and you want to get out of town before traffic gets nuts, the Keizer Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) has an opportunity for you. On Saturday, May 20, the Keizer Stake is sponsoring Family Discovery Day at the Family History Center, 862 45th Av- enue N.E. in Salem. From 8:30 a.m. to noon, the center is of- fering free classes on discovering family roots. “The fo- cus is on how to use the available tools and how to put it all together once you have the information,” said Don Garrett, director. Attendees won’t spend time on computers, but will learn how to start a genealogy search and begin compiling informa- tion. Garrett suggested bring- ing a pen and paper for taking notes, but handouts will also be available. All family members are welcome, but there are no ac- tivities planned for children 12 and under. While many of the data- bases available online – like an- cestry.com or myheritage.com – require a subscription to ac- Ask Mr. Trash Q: Do local garbage haulers remove large items and junk from basements, attics, and garages? A: Sure we do! We’ve been cleaning up like this for ©1986 nearly 50 years! Just call your regular hauler, and they'll give you all the details, including the lowest price in town for special cleanup/removal services! It's easy as 1-2-3, call today! Serving Keizer for Nearly 50 years! LOREN'S VA L L E Y SANITATION & RECYCLING SERVICE, INC. RECYCLING & DISPOSAL, INC. 503.393.2262 503.585.4300 cess, the Family History Center offers access to those resources for free twice a week, Tues- days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. “After they’ve found some of the information, we can help them fill out a pedigree chart or family group record,” Gar- rett said. Depending on where a family originates from, there are some volunteers who can assist in reading, and teaching others how to read, foreign language records. Investigating genealogy can lead to all sorts of surprises, Garrett said. Garrett himself spent time looking into his father’s histo- ry and it led him to Scotland. When he had trouble pinning down his great grandfather’s birth records, he realized that a tombstone might be his best bet for a date. “I sent for a phonebook in the area where he lived and thumbed through it for two weeks before finding the cem- etery where he was buried,” Garrett said. He wrote a letter to the caretaker and received a re- sponse with a Polaroid of the tombstone marking his an- cestor’s grave. There was only one problem: the name on the stone was completely wrong. “My great grandfather’s name was John Garrett and the tombstone had the name Wil- liam Robertson,” Garrett said. The letter explained the discrepancy. Garrett’s great grandfather had been buried atop Robertson, and another relative had been buried on top of John Garrett. The note also invited Garrett to pay £1-per-letter fee to have the additional names added to the tombstone. “Those are the kinds of things that happen when you do the work,” Garrett said. While the Family History Center is sponsored by the LDS church, Garrett said any- one of any faith is welcome. “There is no missionary work or prosthelytising at the center,” he said. ROBBERY, continued from Page A1 with the courts by the Mari- on County District Attorney’s Office. During an interview, Sides provided information that was not known outside of law en- forcement and said he com- mitted the robberies to fuel a heroin addiction. The female accomplice, Kalinda Rae Strader, was ar- rested at a Salem bar Friday, May 12, and charged with a parole violation. Sides is being held at Mar- ion County Correctional Fa- cility and his bail has been set at $500,000. The identity of the vehicle owner led FBI and Salem po- lice investigators to Sides, who had a criminal history of bank robberies and most recently came off federal supervision in 2012. After the Key Bank rob- bery, on May 11, Salem po- lice officers arrested Sides at his home on Bever Drive Northeast. More than $1,000 was taken from Key Bank ac- cording to paperwork filed