Medieval Genealogy At Newtown

Club Meeting

Newtown Genealogy Club will host Timothy Field Beard as its speaker Wednesday, January 14, at 7 pm, in the lower meeting room of Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

All interested visitors are welcome to attend. Mr Beard will speak about medieval genealogy.

A graduate of Williams College with a BA in history, Mr Beard followed graduation by serving for more than two years in France as the US base supply officer at Bordeaux Air Base. He later earned an MS degree in library science from Columbia University.

For 21 years he served as a librarian in the Local History and Genealogy Division of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. During that time, he authored How to Find Your Family Roots (McGraw-Hill, 1977), a guide to finding genealogical sources around the world.

As a result of that publication, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. He is also a Fellow of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. In 1983 he and his late wife, Annette, moved from New York City to Roxbury, where he worked as the town librarian until 1998. He now serves as chairman of the board for Minor Memorial Library in Roxbury and as Roxbury town historian.

Mr Beard is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the States of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and California. He is the president of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Sons of the Revolution in New York State, Sons of the American Revolution in Connecticut, The Order of the Crown of Charlemagne (past president), The Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Colonial Governors, The Order of Indian Wars, and The Americans of Royal Descent (past president). In 1997 he became registrar general of the General Society of Colonial Wars.

Newtown Genealogy Club meets on the second Wednesday of each month from September through June and warmly welcomes all interested visitors. For additional information call Harlan Jessup at 270-7887.