California native Christine Cohen will be the featured speaker at the April 9 virtual meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown.
Cohen will present “Online Cemeteries: What Lies Beneath,” reviewing some of the best online resources of deceased including Internet.net, GraveStonePhotos.com, FindAGrave.com, and BillionGraves.com, among others.
Online sites have both US and international information about the resting place of ancestors. Cohen will also detail how to help fellow genealogists by volunteering to take photos of gravestones, transcribe headstones, or create memorials for posting online.
The meeting is co-sponsored by the genealogy club and C.H. Booth Library. The meeting will be conducted via Zoom and will begin at 7 pm.
All who are interested in genealogy are welcome to attend and can receive a link to the meeting by sending an email with name, address, phone number and email address to [email protected] by April 7. The link will be sent April 8 or 9.
Those planning to participate are asked to sign in beginning at 6:45 so that everyone can be admitted before the meeting begins.
Cohen is experienced in presenting exciting and informative programs on all aspects of genealogy. She is a longtime member and current program director of The Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS). In addition to WAGS, she is a member of the El Redondo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (past 1st vice president), the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, the Association of Professional Genealogists, New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, among others.
Her interest in genealogy began in 1977 with the airing of the TV mini-series “Roots.” Her enthusiasm was piqued when she was given a typed pedigree chart, commissioned by her maternal grandfather, of their Dutch heritage from the New Netherlands in the 1650s.
Cohen is a graduate of UCLA in political science. She is retired and pursues her genealogy journey full time.
The Genealogy Club of Newtown meets the second Wednesday of each month, September through June. Anyone interested in finding out more about their family history and who would like to hear interesting speakers on aspects of genealogy is welcome to join.