Meeting Notices

April Meeting and Volunteer Opportunity

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Our next meeting will be on April 4th at 7:00 p.m. Ed Strickland will be presenting “Genograms for Genealogists.” The meeting location has been changed to take place on Zoom. A link will be sent out for the meeting closer to the date.

Our volunteer opportunity (New Haven Court Records) this month will be on April 11th at 10 a.m. at 75 Van Block in Hartford.

If you have not signed up and are interested in volunteering, you can review the description of the project and the Connecticut State Library’s Volunteer Agreement. The applicant information and the emergency contact should be completed. You may disregard the work schedule area. Be sure to sign at the end. You may submit your completed form when you arrive. Feel free to bring your lunch.

March Meeting and Volunteer Opportunities

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Our next meeting will be on March 7th at 10:00 a.m. Nora Galvin, CG® will be presenting “Exploring Your Homeland Through the Power of Maps.” The meeting will be IN PERSON at 75 Van Block in Hartford. Following the meeting anyone who would like to stay and volunteer with the New Haven Court Records would be welcome.

Our next volunteer opportunity is this Friday, February 10th at the Van Block facility at 10 a.m. Instructions will be provided by the archives staff. Additionally this Friday we will be saying good-bye to the Jones as they have finished their assignment here with Family Search.

If you have not signed up and are interested in volunteering, you can review the description of the project and the Connecticut State Library’s Volunteer Agreement. The applicant information and the emergency contact should be completed. You may disregard the work schedule area. Be sure to sign at the end. You may submit your completed form to Carol Witmer at vicepresident@ctprofgen.org or you may bring them in on March 7th. Feel free to bring your lunch.

February Meeting

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Our next meeting will be on February 7th and we will be having Connecticut Trivia Challenge. Meeting details will be provided when available.

Our next volunteer opportunity will be a continuance of working with the New Haven Court Records. It is both interesting and fun to discuss with others in our group. Please consider joining us on January 31st at the Van Block facility at 10 a.m. Instructions will be provided by the archives staff.

If you have not signed up and are interested in volunteering, you can review the description of the project and the Connecticut State Library’s Volunteer Agreement. The applicant information and the emergency contact should be completed. You may disregard the work schedule area. Be sure to sign at the end. You may submit your completed form to Carol Witmer at vicepresident@ctprofgen.org or you may bring them in on January 31st.  Feel free to bring your lunch.

January Notice

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There will not be a regular business meeting in January.

Members who signed up to volunteer with the archives projects at the Connecticut State Library, will meet for a training session on January 3rd at the Van Block facility at 10 a.m.

If you have not signed up and are interested in volunteering, you can review the description of the project and the Connecticut State Library’s Volunteer Agreement. The applicant information and the emergency contact should be completed. You may disregard the work schedule area. Be sure to sign at the end. You may submit your completed form to Carol Witmer at vicepresident@ctprofgen.org or you may bring them in on January 3rd.  The snow date for this session is scheduled for January 10th.

December Meeting

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When: Tuesday, December 6th 2022 at 9 a.m.- 10 a.m.
Where: Hartford (directions will be emailed to attendees before the visit)

This year’s update will be in person with Mel at the Van Block facility in order to accommodate our group size. After Mel’s presentation, some people may wish to travel to the state library for research. The hours are 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. for planning purposes.

For the presentation by Mel, please RSVP to receive directions the day before: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCirdMSfumtCBlLKByE8ZmaQHHA16u6XoxEeqt00VHxj08EA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Additional information about our business meeting, to be held on 5 December at 7 p.m. via Zoom, will be forthcoming from the secretary along with related monthly documents.

November Meeting

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The outing to see the FamilySearch operation was so much fun that genealogists have asked for an encore visit! This time, we will be hosted by Allen Ramsey, Assistant Archivist for the State of Connecticut, as we visit with some of the archival records that are stored at Connecticut State Library’s off-site storage facility.

Registration is required, as we need to provide a head count.  All who register will receive an email with directions before the visit. For the potluck, the conference room at Van Block has outlets so we can plug in crock-pots, etc. Jen will bring paper goods and Rosemary will bring bottled water. Please bring whatever you would like to share.

PLEASE RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/sAm3X7x65rJEREZF8

Rosemary will be sending out the regular notice with the agenda, minutes, and attachments closer to Tuesday. Jen will send out directions to attendees on Monday.

We hope to see many members there. If you have never attended a CPGC meeting before, we would love to meet you. Please feel free to come and if you don’t have something to bring, please just bring yourself. It’s a rare treat to visit the archives and we don’t want anyone to miss out!

October Meeting

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Our next meeting will be October 4th at 10 a.m. via Zoom

Land Platting with Carol Whitmer, CG® 
Carol Whitmer will provide an overview on using land records in your genealogical research as well as a workshop on how to plat land records. For those who would like to follow along in this workshop-style program, an email titled “Preparation Suggestion” was sent out to the list-serve on 09/24. It contains information on helpful tools.

A Zoom link will be forwarded before the meeting.

April Meeting

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Our next meeting will be April 5th at 10 a.m. We will be having a roundtable discussion about future planning for genealogical collections.

A Zoom invite will be sent prior to the meeting.