Digitizing and Expanding Access to New York Records: Genealogy Discoveries

Darien Library and Middlesex Genealogical Society welcome Kalyn Loewer, Manager of Digital Collections with the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B). Kalyn will discuss the organization’s initiative to preserve records via digitization from across New York State. In addition to a discussion on the NYG&B’s digital preservation techniques, Kalyn will demonstrate the ways in which this initiative has expanded access to these important records and will provide an in-depth tutorial on how to search and use the NYG&B’s online collections catalog for research.

An informal social hour will begin at 1 p.m.
Kalyn Loewer's lecture will begin at 2 p.m. 

About the Presenter

Kalyn Loewer, MA, uses digital preservation and archival techniques to support the NYG&B’s mission to preserve, document, and share family history. She works to digitize documents from all over the state and makes materials available to researchers via the online collections catalog, as well as educates and empowers communities to use these collections for research. As an early modernist, her research is focused on the historiographical significance of Tudor era family history documents relating to Scottish clans. Kalyn was the recipient of the John. C. Gorman '38 Medal for Excellence in History from St. Francis College in 2021.