eNews Vol. 1 No. 6
Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc.
October 2008 eNews Vol. 1 No. 6
Welcome to our next 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:
October 26th, 2008: Our Fall Program has us going back to the Revolutionary War with renowned Loyalist expert Paul J. Bunnell, U.E. “Fairfield County Loyalist Documents and Ghostly Encounters” will be hosted at the New Canaan Historical Society, 13 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, CT on Sunday, October 26, beginning at 2:00 PM. Paul’s talk will be centered around the Loyalist ship, Union, and its passengers, many from Fairfield County, who fled from New York City in 1783 for Saint John, Nova Scotia (New Brunswick) and their settlement at Kingston, New Brunswick. Paul will also discuss other families from the area and the type of documents you will find during research. His encounter with his Loyalist ancestor’s ghost in 1985 and the documents, photos and psychic experiences that followed will shock you in what some research can uncover. This lecture is open to the public, but please RSVP to Connecticut Ancestry Society with the expected number of attendees at (203) 778-4794 or via email at rlocke@ralii.com.
November 8, 2008: Fall Research finds us exploring the Special Censuses of the U.S. with professional genealogist, Nora Galvin, at the Bridgeport Public Library, Burroughs-Saden Main Branch, 3rd Floor, 925 Broad Street, Bridgeport, CT, starting at 10:00 AM on Saturday, November 8th. The US census is a well-known tool for genealogical research. Most of us use the population schedule to locate ancestors geographically and fill in blanks in our family histories. We can learn a great deal of information from these censuses ranging from age to workplace including birthplace, immigration and literacy. In this lecture you will learn about additional schedules filled in by enumerators, primarily in the years 1850-1880. These included: Mortality, Agriculture, Industry/Manufacture and Social Statistics. Come and find out the details of your ancestor’s life in the world of work and get an overview of the towns and cities of the period. This lecture is also open to the public, but please RSVP to our host, the Historical Collections Department at the Library, with the expected number of attendees at (203) 576-7417 or via email to mwitkowski@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org
Board Meeting: Our next Board meeting will be on Sunday, November 16th, at 2:00 PM at the home of our president, Robert Locke, in Bethel.
Later this Winter, mark your calendars now:
December 7, 2008: Connecticut Ancestry Society Holiday Party: “Sunday Dinner” at 2:00PM in Stamford.
Check out http://www.connecticutancestry.org/calendar.html for upcoming activities occurring at other locations throughout the area.
News:
Only a short six months away now, the New England Regional Genealogical Conference: “Discovering Family Treasures” will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, April 22-26, 2009. This is the largest conference in our
region, held every two years. As a charter member, Connecticut Ancestry Society will be well represented. Of course, we are always looking for volunteers to help staff our exhibitor table or to just generally help out. Even if you cannot volunteer, please stop by and say hello to the many of us who will be there. To find out more about the conference,
please visit http://www.nergc.org/2009 If you would like to volunteer, please email our NERGC Delegate and Vice President, Joe Hoefflinger at joseph.hoefflinger@snet.net
Other news:
In other news, our website got a “slight” facelift. What this means is that while the homepage http://www.connecticutancestry.org remains the same, if you had bookmarked some of the other pages, they may or may not still work. In other words, some of the pages have been renamed when they were redesigned. You can, as always, get to any of the pages by following the links on our home page.
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