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Monday, April 29, 2024, 6:00 pm. “Customizing! A very important often unused feature of Family Tree Maker.” Presented by Mark Olsen.
The presentation given by Mark Olsen, Genealogy Community Ambassador for Family Tree Maker genealogy software. It will be held in the Conference Room on the third floor of Darien Library and will be a Zoom presentation by Mark to a live audience. This will be an informative event for both those who already use FTM and those who are thinking of it. Also, learn about Family Tree Maker 2024.
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Mark Olsen
Saturday, May 11, 2024, Darien Library, 1441 Post Road (at Hecker Avenue) Darien, Connecticut
- 1:00 pm: Pre-meeting social
- 2:00 pm: “Untangling the Fishing-line Mess of Your Family Tree or a “Do-Over” Process.” Presented by Sara Zagrodzky
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Topic will cover multiple ways to look at your tree for accuracy, duplicates located, and separating people of the same name. The focus will be on the use of sources and time and place.
Sara is currently President of Middlesex Genealogical Society, a Board Member for the Norwalk Senior Center Genealogy Club. She is also a member of the following: Goodwives River Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Darien Historical Society Education Committee, National Genealogical Society, Connecticut Ancestry Society, New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Cos Cob Genealogy Club. She is a past Board Member of the Goodwives River Chapter NSDAR and the Darien Historical Society. Sara served as Past Chair for the Darien Memorial Day Parade and past assistant to Janeen Bjork’s Norwalk Community College Lifetime Learners Beginners Genealogy Class. She has made presentations to Norwalk Senior Center Genealogy Club on: “Spelling Varieties - checking name spellings on all records” and “Comparison of Ancestry and Family Search Ancestry DNA tree tags and ThruLines.” She works as a genealogy researcher and has attended numerous conferences around the United States.
Middlesex Genealogical Society
The Middlesex Genealogical Society is located in the town of Darien, which is in Fairfield County, Connecticut, not far from New York City. Membership is open to all interested in family research, regardless of where they live. MGS draws members from various towns in Fairfield County, Connecticut, including Darien, New Canaan, Stamford, Greenwich, Norwalk, Wilton, Ridgefield, Westport, Weston, Redding, Fairfield.
The Middlesex Genealogical Society was established in 1982 for the purpose of encouraging those interested in researching their family history and to provide guidance to that end. The Society does not limit its focus to Darien or Fairfield County. It provides assistance for all researchers, wherever their ancestry leads.
A Newsletter is published quarterly.
MGS holds program Presentation Meetings on five Saturdays during the year, presenting speakers on various topics of interest to all genealogists. These presentations are sponsored jointly by the Middlesex Genealogical Society and the Darien Library. These presentations are normally made at meetings in the Community Room of the Darien Library, but are temporarily being done by Zoom through the Library.
If you are new to genealogy, see our Getting Started page.
Volunteers are available at the Darien Library to help you with research problems, or just to get you started.
Member Pages display the genealogical interests of members and help them connect with distant relatives.
The MGS project at Family Tree DNA helps you understand your Y-DNA results and what to do next.
MGS is registered with the State of Connecticut, thereby giving members access to vital records at town and city record offices in Connecticut.
About Our Name
The MGS name is derived from Middlesex Parish, the original name by which Darien, Connecticut, was known before becoming incorporated in 1820. The MGS founders were from Darien and chose "Middlesex" to honor the town. The name "Middlesex" is shown below on part of a 1789 map of Darien by Christopher Colles.
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The main road is part of the 1,300-mile road from Boston to Charleston, South carolina, ordered by King Charles II (now Old Kings Highway North) N in the upper left corner is north + is the 1744 Darien Congregational Church Z is Brookside Road 47 is miles from Federal Hall Scofield is the 1736 Bates-Scofield house (now the Museum of Darien) The squiggly arrow is the Goodwives River Y to Oxridge is Sedgwick Avenue |