Genealogy Path

Gen. Soc. of Bergen Co. Meeting and Special Program
January 25, 2010

Free for All : Old and New Ways to Access Maps in the Collections of The New York Public Library Ms Kandoian will offer tips for mining the map resources of the library via the old book catalogs, the new online catalog, the NYPL Digital Gallery, and the world of Library 2.0. In honor of the GSBC’s restoration of the Ridgewood Public Library’s 1861 map of Bergen and Passaic Counties and in celebration of NYPL going public with its Map Warper, she will offer a preview of this new online tool for overlaying old maps on a modern base with the example of the Hopkins 1861 map.

Nancy Kandoian is Map Cataloger at the New York Public Library, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, Room 117, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Ms Kandoian graduated from Ridgewood High School. She studied geography at Mount Holyoke College, got her library degree at Rutgers, and has been looking at maps and helping others find the maps they need at The New York Public Library since 1978.

The program will be preceded by a dedication ceremony of the Hopkins 1861 Map of Bergen County, that was donated to the library by the Hillmann Family of Ridgewood, and restored with funds, donated to the GSBC in memory of our late past president Arnold Lang. A representative of the Hillman Family, Mrs Etta Lang as representative of her husband Arnold H. Lang, and Ridgewood Library and GSBC officials will be present.

For further infromation:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/index.html

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