GENEALOGY WORKSHOP

OF THE

HUNTINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

209 Main St., Huntington, New York 11743

Tel. (631) 427-7045

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY,  WWI  VETERAN  DATABASE:

Our Resource Center at 209 Main St. in Huntington has records on nearly 4500 World War I veterans from throughout Suffolk County, Long Island,. To search the index and to order a copy of a record, click here.

FALL  2009

GENEALOGY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

For additional information, call (631) 427-7045, ext. 401

For directions to our meetings, click here

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Wednesday,: September 23^rd, 7:00 pm

At the Conklin House Barn, Huntington, NY

Open and free to the public

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY,

ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST AND MOST ACCESSIBLE  GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS

JUST GOT EVEN BIGGER!

This presentation will include an overview of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society’s collection, which was donated to the library last year.

Speaker: MAIRA LIRIANO,  Manager of the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. & 42^nd St., New York, NY.

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Wednesday, October 28^th, 7:00 pm

At the Conklin House Barn, Huntington, NY

Open and free to the public

FAMILY GENEALOGY SOCIETIES AND

ONE-NAME STUDIES

CAN HELP BREAK DOWN YOUR BRICK WALLS

Speaker: William Chamberlain

Sunday, October 18^th, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

At the Setauket Neighborhood House, Setauket, NY

Visit our booth at

HISTORIC SUFFOLK COUNTY

For details and directions, go to: <www.historicsuffolkcounty.org/>

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Wednesday, November 11^th, 7:00 pm

At the Huntington Public Library, 338 Main St., Huntington, NY

Open and free to the public

Speakers:

Juliana Smith, a Senior Education Communications Associate and editor of Ancestry Weekly Discovery and

Loretto Szucs, Executive Editor, ANCESTRY Magazine

Co-sponsored by

the Huntington Public Library and the Huntington Historical Society.

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Wednesday, December 16^th

At the Conklin House Barn, Huntington, NY

ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY

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Sunday, April 18, 2010 to Sunday, April 25, 2010

ANNUAL RESEARCH TRIP TO

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY IN SALT LAKE CITY

For information, please contact the Huntington Historical Society,

209 Main St., Huntington, NY 11743, Tel# 631-427-7045

ABOUT THE GENEALOGY WORKSHOP

The Huntington Historical Society’s Genealogy Workshop conducts monthly meetings from September through June, with guest speakers to discuss issues of common concern to family historians. Meetings are held in the Barn at the Conklin House or at a public library..

Other activities include field trips to resource centers, research and indexing projects, and participation in all-day seminars and family history fairs.

The Workshop publishes a monthly Newsletter featuring local, national and international topics of genealogical interest

PROJECTS

Members of the Genealogy Workshop participate in activities such as research for publications, indexing of records at The Huntington Historical Society’s Archives  and cemetery tombstone readings. 

Our members also participate, along with members of other organizations, in database projects of the Genealogy Federation of Long Island.  These databases include indexes to Naturalization, Military, Vital Records and other records in Long Island – New York Metropolitan area depositories. Over ten million names are available online now, with another two million to be added shortly.  For details, click here

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

Tel # (631) 427-7045

The Huntington Historical Society maintains a Resource Center (Library and Archives) at the Trade School Building, which is also the location of the Society’s offices, at 209 Main St., Huntington, NY 11743-6993

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 For membership information, click here "

Huntington Historical Society membership

For information about other Long Island

genealogy organizations, click here "

Genealogy Federation of Long Island

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