eNews Vol. 1, No. 2
Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc.
May 2008 eNews Vol. 1 No. 2
Welcome to our second installment of news from Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc. As announced in our February 2008 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:
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
June 22nd, 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.
Check out http://www.connecticutancestry.org/activities.html for upcoming activities occurring at other locations throughout the area.
News:
Our May Journal, “Connecticut Ancestry” has gone to print, so keep an eye on your mailbox…. And, if you have yet to renew, this May journal will be your last. Please send in your renewal soon to keep those journals coming. Renewal forms are available in the Journal or you can download the order form from our website at: http://www.connecticutancestry.org/about.html
In other news, our collection will be going into storage temporarily while Ferguson Library undergoes an extensive renovation. While the renovation will begin in June 2008, the Stamford Room will remain open until September 2008. If you have been putting off visiting, please do so soon. We are looking forward to the re-dedication of the Stamford Room when it returns and will keep you posted on planned events.
If you have any ideas or comments about this “monthly” broadcast, please contact me at: webmaster@connecticutancestry.org