ITALIAN FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR featuring Marcia Iannizzi Melnyk and Jonathan D. Shea on Saturday, March 14, 2009 from Noon to 4:00 PM at Housatonic Community College (Beacon Hall Events Center, 2nd Floor) 900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, Connecticut Before You Jump the Pond: Explore how to use American records to document your family members who came to the United States in vital records, church registers, US census records, ship passenger lists, and naturalization records. Italian Records: See what records are available both in Italy and from home to research your family and how history affected the record types and availability of birth, marriage, publication, and death records, including military, processeti, and church records. Translation of Documents: See how to make sense of Italian language documents of genealogical value, even without fluency. Admission is FREE thanks to the generosity of Connecticut Society of Genealogists members, Connecticut Ancestry Society members, and the Housatonic Community College. Ample parking is available in a security monitored garage, and check in will be available beginning at 11:45 AM. While the lecture is FREE, please RSVP with the number of attendees to either: Stephanie Hyland, CSG at (860) 569-0002, csg@ctfamilyhistory.org Robert Locke, CAS at (203) 778-4794, info@connecticutancestry.org Unfortunately, we are not equipped to record and provide remote access to these seminars.