French-Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut, Inc.
What's new at FCGSC?
Save the Date- Saturday, April 11, 2026
Family Search, that's what we'll find out more about. A free site to help you research more about your family! See below.
Craig Harman
Please plan to attend our Spring Membership meeting scheduled for Saturday, April 11 at 1:00 PM. This meeting will be held both in person in the Library Program Room at the Tolland Public Library, 21 Tolland Green, and it will be broadcast via Zoom.
ZOOM information:
Topic: FCGSC Spring General Membership Meeting
Time: Apr 11, 2026 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83720487091?pwd=LunpbEGvoLJ5tcLYiOW13i1xkG6cyK.1
Meeting ID: 837 2048 7091
Passcode: 290321
Reminder: The meeting is also in-person at the Tolland Public Library
Agenda for the Business Portion will include: 1. Call to order 2. Approval of Minutes 3. President’s Report
4. Library Report 5. Financial Report 6. Membership Report 7. By-law change 8. New Business 9. Good and Welfare 10. Adjournment
We will present and vote on a change in our bylaws. The Bylaws state that Board Meetings are the first Tuesday of each month. This makes it difficult to prepare financial reports. For that reason, we are proposing that it meets the second Tuesday of each month.
Following our business meeting, relax and enjoy a presentation by Craig Harman. Craig will present “Family Search Tips and Tricks”. Family Search is another website, familysearch.org , that you can do genealogical research and the best part is that it’s free!
Our speaker, Craig Harman, is the professional genealogist behind Branch and Root Genealogy. A graduate of Princeton University and Brigham Young University, Harmon holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University. Researching his own family in the late 1990s, Harman caught the genealogy bug, when he uncovered a case of an unknown father, a wrong ethnicity, a disappearing couple, and a forgotten lineage that led back to a village in Alsace, France. Harman specializes in Mid-Atlantic, New England, French, and German research. Alongside his native English, Harman speaks and reads French and German fluently and is competent in Italian, Dutch, Spanish and some Latin. Craig Harman is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council, the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, the Delaware Genealogical Society, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and the National Puzzlers League, and is a volunteer at his local Family Search Center in Bloomfield, CT. Harman is available in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut for in-person and online consultation, online and onsite research, genealogy translations, and lectures and classes.
Other Events of Interest
The Tolland Historical Society has several events coming up, including:
Thursday, April 16, 2027 "The Flight to Set a People Free". Kevin Johnson will portray Jordan Freeman, an African American servant of John Ledyard and the body servant of Col. William Ledyard in the Revolutionary War. This will be held at the Old County Court House Museum at 53 Tolland Green from 6-8 PM.
Saturday, April 18, 2026 "Paul Revere". In honor of this historic event of an ordinary man who helped warn American troops that the British were coming, join the Historical Society for a reading of a poem and the recreation of this important event. This will be held at the Old County Court House Museum at 53 Tolland Green at 6 PM.
Sunday, April 19, 2026 "Who are the Dirty Blue Shirts?" Uncovering history is dirty work! The Dirty Blue Shirts is an experiential history collective of living historians, scholars, and artists based from Eastern Connecticut. Their passion is bringing American History to life. This will be held at the Old County Court House Museum at 53 Tolland Green at 12:30 PM.
For more information, go to https://tollandhistorical.org/
Save the date- FCGSC will be participating!
