Heading into Thanksgiving gatherings and the winter holidays? It’s the perfect time to connect with family and discover your roots! Join historian Cathy Moran Hajo for Starting Your Family Tree, an introduction to beginning genealogical research. Discover how to turn holiday conversations into rich oral histories by interviewing relatives, organizing home treasures, and navigating online genealogy databases and DNA tools. Whether you're curious about your ancestors' origins or looking for a meaningful family project to start around the holiday dinner table, this session will give you the practical tools and confidence to begin building your family tree.
About the speaker: Cathy Moran Hajo is a historian, archivist, and editor who works as the editor and director of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College and was previously the associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers. She has a Ph.D. in History from New York University and is a graduate of Mahwah High School and Ramapo College of New Jersey and focuses her work on women's history and digital history. She has curated several exhibits at the Museum, including Mahwah’s Herstory Exhibit (2016), A College Comes to Mahwah (2019), and The Gilded Age in the Ramapo Valley (2026). She is the vice-president of the Museum and serves as its Archives Director.
Registration is required for this event, and open now. Reserve your spot today at www.mahwahmuseum.org or at https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/starting-your-family-tree. Tickets are $5 per person, and free for Mahwah Museum members with discount code. Not sure you’re a member? Contact mahwahmuseum@gmail.com to find out.
The Mahwah Museum is open on Saturdays, September 26th - June, from 1-4 pm. Admission to Mahwah Museum is $10 per person. Admission is free for children 18 and under, students, and Mahwah Museum members. The Museum is located at 201 Franklin Turnpike, Mahwah, NJ. Visit the museum website at www.mahwahmuseum.org for further details.
