The Immigrant Experience: Genealogical Discoveries

Darien Library and Middlesex Genealogical Society welcome Toni McKeen to discuss this month's genealogy program.

Discover fascinating historical details in this lecture on the immigrant's experience. What was it like to travel from a small village to a large emigration port, and then travel by steamship to a new world to begin life over without speaking the language or knowing the culture? How difficult was the process at Ellis Island? What documents were used? Then how did our ancestors adjust to their new lifestyle?

Toni will share all this and the insight she has developed to help locate difficult relatives who seem like they do not want to be found. 

An informal "meet and greet" will begin at 1 p.m. Toni McKeen's lecture will begin at 2 p.m. 

About the Presenter

Toni McKeen is on a mission to expose as many people as possible to the fun and importance of tracing their own genealogy. Toni's research on her extensive Italian family, her husband’s Irish family, and son -n-law’s German family spans the last 37 years. Toni's training from a MS in Biology helped her to establish organized systems and charts for recording family information.

She is a popular lecturer at various genealogy societies in the New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Boston, and Long Island areas and is Chairman of the Genealogy Club of Newtown for the second time.