‘Finding Your Civil War Ancestors’

The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown will take place at 7 pm on Wednesday, February 8, in the meeting room of C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

This month’s guest speaker will be professional genealogist and founding member of the group Harlan Jessup, whose topic will be “Finding Records of Your Civil War Ancestors.” Mr Jessup will discuss how to locate Civil War ancestors by searching service and pension records, as well as less well known census and burial records and published unit and personal histories. He will illustrate his program with examples from two of his great-great-uncles, one who fought for the Union and one for the Confederacy. Time will be allotted for questions and answers after the presentation.

Harlan Jessup of Newtown is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and of the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council. His work focuses on Connecticut and nearby areas of Massachusetts and New York. He also maintains the genealogy and local history collection at the C.H. Booth Library.

Visitors are always welcome. For further information, contact Mr Jessup at 203-426-3981.