Presenter: Diane L. Richard Hit a brick wall? Wondering why your ancestors did what they did? Need to separate several same-named contemporaries? Learn about timelines and how they might help...

Presenter: Justin Cascio Mafiosi and their victims have always lived side by side. The same ships that brought honest people to America also brought criminals and a unique culture in...

Presenter: Michael Cassara There has never been a better time to pursue Italian genealogical research with more and more records available online. This presentation is an overview for the beginning...

Presenter: Judy G. Russell America’s doors were open to all before the Civil War, with few restrictions. Afterwards, the laws began tightening, with exclusions, quotas, even required visas. How did...

Presenter: Lynn Palmero Palermo shares several key steps to help you start turning your research into entertaining and shareable stories. You will leave this presentation armed with the first steps...

Get help with researching your ancestors. Come discuss strategies and learn how others have succeeded. Open to all. To register, go to: https://pmlib.libnet.info/event/6584182

Presenter: Peter Ward Learn about Presbyterian church records including how to find them and how they are organized.

Presenter: Rachel Silverman This presentation will detail the work of Operation Benjamin, a non-profit dedicated to locating Jewish personnel at World War II American military cemeteries all over the world...

Presenter: Lisa Alzo This is a Zoom presentation that will be shown in the library but can also be viewed from home. There is a limit of 20 in person...

Presenter: Fritz Juengling Quite often, family history researchers stick to the usual record types when researching their family history; birth/baptismal, marriage, and death records. Of course, these are useful sources...

Presenter: Susan Jaycox

Presenter: Elyse Hill Discover the challenges, assumptions and myths involved in African American research. Learn how the presenter overcame obstacles in her research and strategies on how to locate and...

Presenter: Janice Lovelace Learn about unique resources along with standard censuses, probate records and vital records to identify emancipated enslaved persons and their prior slave owners.

Presenter: Loretta Bonacorso

Presenter: Kirsten Fermaglich Our images of name changing are frequently clichés: movie stars who adopted new names or Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names. Kirsten Fermaglich upends these cliches...

After a pandemic-induced hiatus of three years, our genealogy show-and-tell will return. Do you have an interesting research story? Did you make any genealogical discoveries during the lockdown that you’d...

Get help with researching your ancestors. Come discuss strategies and learn how others have succeeded. Open to all. To register, go to: https://pmlib.libnet.info/event/6584182

Presenter: Peter Ward Join librarian Peter Ward as he shares a few of his discoveries and tips for using the IAPSOP database which contains hundreds of newspapers and other publications...

Presenter: Brad Kolodny, president of the Jewish Historical Society of Long Island He will discuss his new book -- The Jews of Long Island, 1705-1918. The book tells the story...

Presenter: Teresa Steinkamp McMillin Germany does not have large subscription-based websites for accessing newspapers for genealogical research. In spite of that fact, there are thousands of digitized German newspapers available...

Presenter: Tom Phelan Tom will discuss his book "We Were Rich and Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood," a story of growing up in Ireland in the...

Presenter: Sarah Gutmann Learn how to trace the paths of your Irish immigrant ancestors. Discover how to gather information about them through U.S. records and then where and how to...

Presenter: Diane Haberstroh Learn about Diane's recent trip to Ireland and how she connected with a distant cousin who took her on a tour of her family's area in County...

Presenter: Victoria Calabrese