Westchester County Genealogical Society (NY) Upcoming Meeting The Westchester County Genealogical Society welcomes Toni McKeen with her program titled Let City Directories Work For You on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10am. City Directories are very valuable and useful tools that genealogists use to track people over a span of years, especially the years falling between the takings of the census. They give you a person’s address and an occupation in a given year and several members of the same family unit who were gainfully employed will appear in the alphabetized list. Toni McKeen has been passionate about genealogy for over 20 years. Toni has been researching her huge Italian family as well as her husband’s Irish family during this time. Her research has led her to the ancestral homes of her grandparents in Sicily, Calabria, and the Amalfi Coast of Italy and she have made several trips to the "homeland" in search of documents. Ms. McKeen has taught several levels of genealogy in Founders Hall in Ridgefield, CT for more than 5 years as well as given other lectures in New York and Connecticut. This lecture will focus on the use of city directories in genealogical research. The meeting opens at 10:00 a.m. at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 600 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY. All are welcome to come to the meeting. Coffee and conversation precede the meeting at 9:30 a.m. MEETING INFO: TOPIC: LET CITY DIRECTORIES WORK FOR YOU WHEN: Saturday, MARCH 14, 2009 @ 10 a.m. WHERE: Aldersgate Methodist Church, 600 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry (across from Mercy College on route 9) For information about Westchester County Genealogical Society (Westchester Connection or Surname List), visit WCGS home page -- _http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/) Hope to see you on Saturday!! RESERVED THESE DATES FOR WCGS Future Meetings Apr 11, 2009 Getting the Most Out of the US Census on Ancestry.com Gordon L. McDaniel May 9, 2009 Voyage to America Leslie Albrecht Huber June 13, 2009 NYC 1890 Police Census Debra Braverman