Learn to trace your family tree! Join Hagaman Library’s monthly Genealogy Club. Whether you are a novice or an experienced family history researcher, or somewhere in between, this is the group for you. The club is free and open to everyone and meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m.
Join us on Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m.! (Please note: this meeting will be held virtually over Zoom and will NOT be in-person) On May 14, Genealogy club member Elliot Croll will do a presentation on emigration from Europe and why people left Europe. People left for economic, social, and political reasons. Mr. Croll will give a basic review of the transport methods people used to leave Europe and come to the USA.
Elliott Croll started doing genealogy in 2017 after retiring from a career in Mechanical Engineering spanning 43 years including 20 years at Yale University.He started his genealogy by using the free ancestry program on the internet to build a family tree home. The library copy of ancestry provided information on his family tree. He then purchased his own membership to Ancestry.com. He has listened to about 100 webinars by zoom or in-person. In 2019 he joined the CT Jewish Genealogy society and went to the International Jewish Genealogy Society in 2024 for a week. His family tree has 7,800 people.
If you are interested in finding out more about Hagaman Library’s Genealogy Club, or if you would like to join the Genealogy Club, please send an email to Cynthia Gwiazda, Community Services Librarian at [email protected].
If you are an East Haven resident, you can use your East Haven Hagaman Memorial Library card to access the library’s genealogy resource MyHeritage Library Edition. Click here to access this resource. You will be asked to put in your library card barcode number (located on the back of your library card) with no spaces or dashes and click on Sign in. MyHeritage Library Edition is available to be used remotely. You do not need to be inside the library to access it.
MyHeritage Library Edition is a cutting edge search engine to help you discover more about who your ancestors were and the lives they led. By searching billions of historical records from around the world, you can break through brick walls in your family history research. Search the complete U.S. and U.K. census collections, gravestone records, and more than a billion family tree profiles as well as birth, marriage, death, immigration and military records from around the world.
Extra parking for evening and weekend library events is available in the East Haven Town Hall parking lot on 250 Main Street (across the street from the library), in the KeyBank parking lot next to the library (after 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays and after 5:00 p.m. on weekdays) and in the Stop and Shop lot behind the library, accessible from Messina Drive.
