MRHS Program: Getting Children Interested in Family History

Casey Zahn presents "Hook'em While They're Young: Getting Children Interested in Family and History."   Drawing on personal and professional experience, Zahn will introduce ideas and techniques in getting children interested in their family history. From hands on activities to websites, this presentation will show how adults can involve children and keep their excitement and interest in any type of history.

Catherine "Casey" Zahn is a Norwich, CT native with deep family roots in the Mystic and shoreline Connecticut area. A third grade teacher in Robbinsville, NJ, she is a past trustee of the Genealogical Society of NJ and was the 2008 program chair for the FGS Conference in Philadelphia. Casey has written two teacher guides for the National Genealogical Society and had two articles published about teaching children genealogy which in appeared in the November 2004 Heritage Quest Magazine.  She was recently elected to serve on the National Alumni Council for her college, Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, WV and was a 1997 recipient of the NJ Governor's Teacher of the Year for her school district. She is an America History Fellow for the Nathanael Greene Liberty Foundation and often teaches adult genealogy classes throughout NJ. Currently Casey resides in Pennington, NJ with her husband and daughter and often comes home to New England to seek out her relatives past and present.

The program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Mystic Congregational Church Parish Hall and is followed by a question and answer period and refreshments.  It is free and open to the public.  For more information, call the Mystic River Historical Society 536-4779, or email info@mystichistory.org.