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Yesterday, we visited the Mark Twain Library to explore the Margaret Wixted Collection and present our latest issue to the First Selectman of Redding and other officials.

Above, Library Director Heather Morgan welcomes us.

Above, our President Richard Roof presents a copy of our Journal with newly discovered Redding Vital Records to Redding First Selectman, Natalie Ketcham.

Our Editor, Harlan Jessup, renowned expert on Barbour Collection Errors and Omissions, explains the discovery of new Redding Vital Records.

Jean Taylor, reference librarian, details the resources available in the Margaret Wixted Collection at the Mark Twain Library.

We visited the Trumbull Library yesterday to present newly discovered Vital Records to town and library officials.

Pictured are Ray Baldwin (Trumbull First Selectman), Lois Levine and Warren Blake (Directors of the Trumbull Historical Society), Mary Rogers (Associate Director of Library Information Systems), Walter Dembowski (Head of Reference Services) and Richard Roof (President of Connecticut Ancestry Society).

The presentation was followed by a rousing presentation by lecturer Bill Stansfield entitled Genealogy 101.