Genealogy Workshop

Reconnecting with your best friend from kindergarten on Facebook is fun. Reconnecting with your great-great-great-great grandmother on ancestry.com? Thrilling.

History Listens

A workshop in collecting oral histories will be held tomorrow, Saturday, March 6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 59 School street in Edgartown, with a follow-up meeting on Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to noon.

It’s a Cooking Class, Daal

The Datta family has been teaching and preparing food for patrons at the Vineyard Haven library for many years. On Tuesday, March 9, at 7 p.m., Uma Datta will offer an Indian cooking class and demonstration, providing instruction on how to cook using Indian spices and recipes. Class size is limited, so sign up early, either at the front desk or on the library Web site, vhlibrary.org.

The spring session of the ACE MV adult education program begins Monday, March 8, International Women’s Day, with a free seminar, Women and the African Diaspora, commemorating black history and women’s history months.

Library Reading Series

The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association in collaboration with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, presents a free winter reading series featuring some of the center’s poetry and fiction fellows. The readings, held throughout the month on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m., begin March 4 at the West Tisbury library and continue at the Oak Bluffs library on March 11, at the Edgartown library on March 18 and finish at the Vineyard Haven library on March 25.

Census Explained

It is time for the census. Learn more about the process on Tuesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven library when census bureau representative Gordon Bryden presents a talk: The 2010 Census: It’s in Our Hands.

Mr. Bryden will discuss the upcoming count, its importance to our communities, the simplicity of this year’s 10-question census form, and how each of us can work toward getting an accurate count. The talk is free.