Please join Kalyn Loewer, NYG&B's Digital Collections Manager, Anna Gardner, NYG&B's Digitize New York Manager, and Steven Eustis, Wyckoff descendant and a member of the Wyckoff Cousins and Community Calls steering committee for a look at the Wyckoff House Museum partnerships. The speakers will discuss the local partnership with the Wyckoff House Museum that was integral to this Digitize New York preservation effort, share how the materials were digitized using two NYG&B Digitization Kits, and go in-depth on how to locate and view the digital images on the NYG&B’s Online Collections Catalog.
About the Speakers
Steve Eustis lives in Essex Junction, Vermont, and has been an electrical engineer in the semi-conductor industry for 34 years. He has been doing genealogy research since 2015 and specializes in New Netherland families and their descendants, particularly the Duryea family. He is a Wyckoff descendant and a member of the Wyckoff Cousins and Community Calls steering committee.
Anna Gardner supports the statewide growth and operations of the NYG&B’s Digitize New York initiative through project development and community outreach from her base at the Central New York Digitization Center in Syracuse. Prior to joining NYG&B, she was the senior manager of marketing and communications at Henry Street Settlement, where she played a key role in driving grassroots and digital outreach efforts to connect New Yorkers to social service, health care, arts, and history programs. Anna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Photography, and Visual Arts from Ithaca College and is an alumna of its prestigious Park Scholar program.
As the Manager of Digital Collections, Kalyn Loewer uses digital preservation and archival techniques to support the NYG&B’s mission to preserve, document, and share family history. She works to digitize documents from all over New York State and makes materials available to researchers via the online collections. She also educates communities about how to access and maximize the NYG&B’s online collections. Kalyn was the recipient of the John C. Gorman '38 Medal for Excellence in History from St. Francis College in 2021.