Dione Longley, a former director of the Middlesex County Historical Society, and Buck Zaidel, a dentist in Cromwell, are working on a book about Connecticut soldiers in the Civil War.

The book will feature images and words of local soldiers and their families, and is expected to be published in 2012 by Wesleyan University Press.

Longley and Zaidel will speak at Russell Memorial Library in Middletown on Wednesday, May 11, about how you can learn of your ancestors' military history to find out if one of them were part of the Civil War. The program starts at 7 p.m. and is free.