eNews Vol. 1, No. 1
Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc.
April 2008 eMail Vol. 1 No. 1
Welcome to our first installment of news from Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc. As announced in our February journal, this eMail will inform you of upcoming events currently scheduled. We are expecting to send these roughly once a month to help remind you of upcoming plans.
Upcoming Meetings:
April 20th, 2008: Please join us for our next Board Meeting to be held at the Fairfield Museum and History Center at 2:00 PM. All Connecticut Ancestry Society members are welcome.
May 17th, 2008: Irish Genealogical Workshop at Bridgeport Public Library. As a follow-on to the co-sponsored seminar in March at the Housatonic Community College, Connecticut Ancestry Society and the Historical Collections staff at Bridgeport Public Library would like you to bring your Irish “challenges”. Starting at 10:30am, professional genealogist Nora Galvin will point out additional resources not presented during the March seminar. The workshop is open to the public, but please RSVP to the Historical Collections staff at Bridgeport Public Library at (203) 576-7417 or via email at mwitkowski@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us.
May 18th, 2008: Annual Meeting hosted at the Keeler Tavern in Ridgefield and co-sponsored by the Ridgefield Historical Society. Following our “brief” annual business meeting at 2:00 PM, Harlan Jessup, editor of Connecticut Ancestry, will present on “The Settlement of the Oblong: How the boundary between New York and Connecticut was determined”. Certainly North and South Salem were largely settled by Ridgefield families, but what about the other areas of this “narrow strip of Equivalent Lands”? The lecture is open to the public, but please RSVP with the number of attendees to the Ridgefield Historical Society at (203) 438-5821 or via email at ridgefieldhistory@sbcglobal.net.
News:
Vital Record Access
Following the difficulties imposed on our local city registrars and town clerks by conflicting federal and state statutes, there has been a growing desire by certain political groups to further block our access to vital records. Connecticut Ancestry Society is endorsing (through our membership in the Federation of Genealogical Societies) a position paper developed by the Keeping Genealogical Records Open Workgroup (KGROW) of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG). Please take a moment to view this information through our website: http://www.connecticutancestry.org/20071107VRLetter.html which links to: http://apgen.org/publications/press to view the press release and position paper.
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