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 February 10th. Feel free to bring your lunch.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Our next meeting will be September 6th at 10 a.m. This meeting will include a field trip to the Van Block storage facility with the archivists at the Connecticut State Library and Family Search. Please check your email for details.