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 for genealogical information but there are other records that can fill gaps or simply provide more information. One of these underused records is guild records....

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 identify descendants of both free people and formerly enslaved ancestors.

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 by examining previously unexplored name change petitions. In 20th-century New York City, thousands of ordinary Jews legally changed their names to respond to institutionalized antisemitism....

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 like to share with our members? Do you have a favorite ancestor? A famous or infamous one? We’d love to hear about them. Would you...

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 relating to Spiritualism.

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 of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst to Sag Harbor, laying the...