Tracing family lineage is a time consuming and tedious project, but the Kyle Public Library is looking at initiatives to help local residents find their roots.

Genealogy Gems, which meets on the third Saturday of the month, is a new program hosted by Assistant Library Director Cara Waits.

For Waits, tracing her family’s roots has been years in the making, researching on numerous databases and sending letters to churches and universities as far as Mexico for answers.

In her quest to finding...