Learn to Trace Your Family Tree! Join Hagaman Library’s Genealogy Club! Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, August 13 at 6:30 p.m.

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, August 13 at 6:30 p.m.! (Please note: this meeting will be held virtually over Zoom and will NOT be in-person) We will watch a webinar called “How Local Histories Bring Your Genealogy To Life” 

Embark on a journey into the past! Join Dr. Kimberly Nagy and learn how local histories provide clues to uncover biographical information about your ancestors. Most importantly, local histories shed light on the lives of your ancestors and provide context about the communities they lived in, the events they witnessed, and the customs they practiced. You can use these discoveries to fill in gaps in your family history!

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 cgwiazda@hagamanlibrary.org. 

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.