**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

The Tewksbury Genealogy Group, which generally meets the first Monday of every month, is open to everyone who's interested in genealogy. Each meeting -- which will take place via Zoom -- consists of a presentation from a guest speaker (typically a professional genealogist), followed by a period where members can briefly share their latest genealogy research, and then the library will share a genealogy resource its patrons can access for free. 

The presentation for the November 2021 meeting is "Italian Genealogy Basics" with Peter Barbella. Barbella will discuss how to establish your genealogical goals and provide helpful guidance -- tools, techniques, and demonstrations -- on how to research U.S. and Italian genealogical records. He'll also recommend sources -- including genealogy clubs, social media, and websites -- that he utilizes in his own Italian genealogy research. Barbella is a third generation Italian American, born and raised in the small village of Tarrytown, New York on the banks of the Hudson River. Retired, after a long career in radar systems electronic engineering, he now lives in Massachusetts with his wife, three out of four children and nine grandchildren. Barbella is webmaster for “The Sassano Project”, online indexed vital records dating from 1640 to 1940 for the comune of Sassano in the Campania region.  He is the author of two books -- 1800 Kilometers in a Fiat 500 (a genealogical adventure through southern Italy) and 27 Cottage Place (a memoir of growing up in an Italian neighborhood.) Barbella has taught local adult education classes in computers and genealogy and is currently a member of the Italian Genealogical Group.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.