Fairfield County Historical Museum Director Pelham Lyles addresses a group who met to reorganize the Fairfield County Genealogical Society which has been dormant.The meeting was held in the Christ Central Theater next door to the Museum.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will meet on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 1:30 p.m., in Middletown.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION...Mr. Gordon Craig, grandson of Sam Henry, who presented a collection of Sam Henry items to Alderman Maurice Bradley, Mayor of Coleraine, for the Causeway Museum Service.
On Saturday, Aug. 5, Jerome and Sharyol O'Connor celebrated 50 years of marriage the best way they knew how, gathered with their large extended family and friends at their farm southwest of Preston on "Kind Road." Whether or not the main meal was ready on time or someone dropped a plateful of potato salad on the lawn meant little to this crew ... (more)
In search of a lost graveyard. LOST BURIAL SITE: Local genealogist Lloyd Henry points to the only gravestone he was able to find after an afternoon of searching where the Salvation Army Cemetery should be.
Betty C. Wynn and daughter Makleigh Wynn look at the more than 200 photos of veterans and active duty soldiers posted on the walls of the Saddletree Community Center.
Sometimes when we look at things, they are not what they appear to be at first glance.
Family Tree Maker comes with a variety of default reports, and it also has a Custom Report that lets you mine your family tree for the information you’re interested in. Using it I’ve created family health histories, address lists, residency reports, and more. But the report I get asked about most often is a custom cemetery report. I first created one several years ago when I was planning a trip to a cemetery and wanted to take photos of tombstones for my family members buried there. The report helped me keep track of the photos I’d taken and also worked as a research resource to confirm (and contradict!) the facts I had in my tree.
Before you get started, you’ll want to make sure you’ve recorded burial and cemetery information the same way for all the individuals in your tree; otherwise, you report won’t necessarily include the correct individuals. In my tree I use the Description field in the Burial fact to record specific cemetery names.
Now we need to determine which individuals should be included in the report–the people who have been buried at a specific cemetery.
4. In Individuals to Include, click Selected Individuals. The Filter Individuals window opens.
5. Click Filter In. The Filter Individuals by Criteria window opens. 
6. Click All facts. In “Search where” choose the Burial fact and Description field. (If you’ve recorded cemetery information in a different fact you’ll choose that here.) In the next drop-down choose “Contains.” Then in the Value field, enter the name of the cemetery and click OK. 
The Filter Individuals window now shows all the individuals who are buried in the selected cemetery. Click OK to display the report. 
Now it’s your turn. Have you tried the custom report yet? If you have, how do you use it?
Police say one of the men was investigating a noise outside his home in Kingsley, in Perth's north, about 3.30am on Tuesday when he saw the 15-year-old boy, who he thought could be a burglar, jumping the fence.
Kelly, an experienced, professional genealogist, provides services ranging from research, to interpretation of documents, assisting with visits to genealogical repositories and helping guests map out the locations where ancestors once lived.