WELCOME 
The Morris Area Genealogy Society (MAGS) provides a lively forum for resource sharing, mutual assistance, and instruction for those interested in family history and genealogy. Beginners as well as more experienced genealogists profit from monthly lectures on topics relating to genealogy. 
Starting in 2020, beginning genealogists may attend our Beginners and Beyond SIG without being a MAGS member.

Since our origin in 1988 at the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, our Society has grown and we now meet at the Morris County Library*, 30 East Hanover Ave., Whippany, NJ on the first Tuesday evening of the month. Visitors are welcome at our monthly meetings. Refreshments are served at 6:30; the program begins at 7:00.

If a monthly meeting needs to be cancelled, every effort is made by the MAGS Board to notify the Morris County Library before 3 pm, with a cancellation notification posted on this page of this website. When in doubt, please call the Morris County Library directly.

​Among the benefits of membership are a subscription to the quarterly Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter and participation in our Special Interest Groups which focus on particular challenges and topics such as research strategies in a smaller, less formal setting.

While the library is closed for meetings, the Morristown-Morris Township Library, North Jersey History and Genealogy Center librarians continue to provide genealogical research. Email the NJHGC at  james.lewis@mmt.mainlib.org .

2020 Change:  The Special Interest Group for Beginners and Beyond is now open to all - MAGS membership is not required.  If you think you might be interested in genealogy, come to our SIG meeting and try it out!


Members are encouraged to volunteer their time and share their expertise by serving on committees.

*Directions to the Library. Telephone number: 973-285-6930.
Although the NJ Governor has allowed libraries to open starting July 6, 2020,  our meeting host, the Morris County Library,  has announced that the meeting rooms will remain closed indefinitely.

ALL IN-PERSON MEETINGS - PUBLIC MONTHLY AND SIG MEETINGS - HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

​​While the library meeting rooms are closed, the BEGINNERS AND BEYOND SIG, the BRICK WALLS SIG and the DNA SIG are being held  ONLINE VIA ZOOM. The COMPUTER GENEALOGY SIG and the COMPUTER GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY WRITING SIG will have combined meetings ONLINE VIA ZOOM.  SIG members should watch their email for ZOOM notices.   

If you are a MAGS member and are interested in joining a SIG, send an email to: 
               All-Members+owner@MAGS-Members.groups.io 
and advise what SIG(s) you wish to participate in. 

Beginners and Beyond  SIG is open to all, not just members. All other SIGs require MAGS membership.

​MAGS - UPCOMING MEETING


​6 Oct 2020
*** THIS MEETING WILL BE ONLINE VIA ZOOM ***
Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors  
By Catherine "Casey" Zahn
Sometimes your genealogical research gets stymied by lack of information or not knowing what record to use next-especially with your immigrant ancestors. Tracing Your Ancestors shows you how to move beyond census records and to examine passenger records as well as naturalization records to lead you across the ocean and into the village where your ancestor once lived.
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Catherine “Casey” Zahn is a Norwich, CT native. A retired teacher of the Robbinsville [NJ] Board of Education Casey, and a former trustee of the Genealogical Society of NJ. In 2008 she was the national 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 appeared in the November 2004 Heritage Quest Magazine.  She served 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 is actively completing articles for future genealogical publication.
Website last updated: 2020 September 22
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