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April 18, 2026 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
The next hybrid In-Person and Zoom meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on “Searching for Summer Camps: A Genealogical Exploration, presented by WCGIG member, Michael Bosworth, and
Finding Ancestors in FamilySearch,” presented by Wayne Blanchard, on Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 10:30 AM to 12:30PM, Zoom and at Brooks Memorial Library.
Free and open to all.
Please register at this link https://bit.ly/WCGIG-2026 A Zoom link will be sent before the meeting. For those people in the local vicinity, an in person meeting will also be conducted at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., Brattleboro, Vermont.
“Searching for Summer Camps: A Genealogical Exploration”
Michael Bosworth will review his family’s New England summer camp heritage. He will demonstrate how he built a much more complete picture of his family’s history at seven camps in Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire through tying together such diverse sources as family lore, family photos and other family archives, site visits, camp archives, online searching, and even college transcripts and 8-track film.
“Finding Ancestors in FamilySearch”
FamilySearch has new tools to search millions of records that were difficult to find in the past. At the recent RootsTech genealogy conference, several presenters from the company explained how to use the new features to make research easier. Because the sessions were both in person and online, the presentations are still available to everyone.
We will take a look at how tools like the AI Research Assistant and Full Text Search are making it easier to find records, decipher handwriting and navigate the collections. Users still need to review the information to confirm that it is accurate.
FamilySearch continues to experiment with new ways to make the process easier and we will take a look at what they are working on in the Lab. .
