TIARA meeting

For those with an interest in Irish genealogy, the next meeting of the Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) will be held on Saturday, December 8, at 1:30 PM at the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington. Dick Eastman will give a presentation on genealogy apps for mobile devices. For additional information please visit the Meetings page of the TIARA website at: http://tiara.ie/meet.php.

B.U. Genealogical Research Alums November Meeting

November's alumni meeting will be held at NEHGS this Saturday, November 17, at 9:00 A.M. with lunch to follow. For those interested in attending the meeting please email Liz Loveland. For those interested in attending lunch please email Joan Angelosanto. Hope to see you there!

Researching Mayflower Lines

For those with an interest in researching Mayflower lines and in preparing an application to accept lineage from a Mayflower passenger, I prepared a brief presentation at Saturday's monthly alumni meeting at NEHGS. The handout from the presentation can be viewed by clicking here. I hope that you will find the information in the handout useful, and please let me know if there is any information you would like me to add to the handout for reference.

Cemetery Trip to Worcester and Palmer

I just figured out how to make a new post so maybe we can open up a new thread concerning my upcoming trip to Boston 7 November to 10 November to visit two cemeteries, one in Worcester and one in Palmer.  The one in Palmer is considered haunted so if any of you are in the mind to accompany me through this cemetery, feel welcomed ;-)  I need to correct what I believe to be a faulty transcription of a gravestone in the Old Palmer Center Cemetery.  Once I establish that it was 1846 and not 1816 for John Corey's death year I will be able to cite the correction NEHGS will be asked to submit to its vital records of Palmer.  The St. John's Cemetery in Worcester will be easier to navigate since I got a map of the location of the two gravestones I need to document and photograph for submission to Find A Grave website.  There is also, I believe, a Jewish cemetery adjacent to St. John's that Linda may want to add to her itinerary for the Jewish genealogical conference next August.

BU Genealogical Research Alums September Meeting

It is good to be in the blog at last.  I see there is a New Hampshire Genealogy meeting coming up but alas I won't be in New England then.  I am coming to Boston September 28th to October 1st for the Irish Study Group and the BU Genealogical Research Program Alums meeting at the NEHGS.
I hope some of you will be coming to the meetings on Saturday.  I'm back into John Corey and now adding my husband's John M. Daly search through Pennsylvania to Ohio.  At the last meeting August 25th or so I presented 2 brick walls and Marti and Gloria and Liz were very helpful so I've been able to move a bit further on the Corey front.  Please try to come; I miss you all. AND we have a great long lunch for networking.

New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Fall Meeting

The New Hampshire Society of Genealogists is holding their fall meeting at the Holiday Inn in Concord on Saturday, October 6, from 10:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. The cost of the meeting is $15.00 for members and $20.00 for non-members. For more information about the event please visit http://nhsog.org/nhsog/mtgs/mtg_Oct_12.htm. For more information about the society visit their home page at http://nhsog.org.

Connecticut Society of Genealogists

For those with an interest in Connecticut genealogy, the Connecticut Society of Genealogists is holding their annual family history seminar on Saturday, October 20 in North Haven. I have attended the last two family history seminars in 2010 and 2011, and both were terrific. For additional information about this year's event please visit the Connecticut Society of Genealogists website at http://www.csginc.org/csg_view_event.php?event=174. The brochure for the event can be downloaded at http://www.csginc.org/pdf/seminar_brochure.pdf.

The Connecticut Society of Genealogists holds events on a variety of genealogical topics nearly every month of the year. The events are excellent and provide invaluable information for historical and genealogical research in Connecticut. For more information about their upcoming events please visit the events page at http://www.csginc.org/genealogy_events_ct.php. For more information about the society please visit http://www.csginc.org.

Summer Genealogy Courses at Boston University

Boston University is offering two week-long genealogy courses this summer. Advanced Forensic Genealogy begins on Monday, July 30. Writing Family History Narratives and Other Genealogical Works begins the following week on Monday, August 6. For more information please visit the B.U. Center for Professional Education website at http://professional.bu.edu/programs/genealogy.

Massachusetts Genealogical Council Seminar Recap

Linda, Wendy, and I attended the Massachusetts Genealogical Council seminar held at Brandeis University last Saturday. It was a well-attended event with several presentations on Ethnicity and Genealogy. The program sessions and workshops were excellent, and I learned a great deal about Irish and Scottish genealogy, two of my genealogical interests that I am keen to learn more about. I plan to add some notes from the sessions to the blog later this week, and I hope that others will find them useful.

The Massachusetts Genealogical Council is very active in preserving historical records and maintaining public rights to access of records. For more information about the MGC please visit their website at: http://www.massgencouncil.org.

Patience hath reward; I'm finally here...

It took me a while but I've finally made it to this blog.  I'll check on what's been going on and get back to you later....

Irish Genealogy Study Group at NEHGS

For those with an interest in Irish Genealogy, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society hosts meetings of the Irish Genealogy Study Group led by Mary Ellen Grogan. The group usually meets in the second-floor Education Center at NEHGS on the fourth Saturday of the month from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. Please check the weekly NEHGS newsletter for any changes in meeting times. The next meeting of the study group is today from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Mary Ellen Grogan will lead an afternoon workshop on Griffith's Valuation at the Massachusetts Genealogical Council seminar at Brandeis University on Saturday, July 21, 2012. For more information about the Griffith's Valuation workshop at the MGC seminar please view the MGC schedule at http://www.massgencouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119:conference-schedule&catid=56:promotion&Itemid=135 or view a description of the workshop at http://www.massgencouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123:mgc-2012-seminar-presentation-descriptions&catid=56:promotion&Itemid=136.

New Hampshire in the Civil War

For those of you who have an interest in New Hampshire history and in the Civil War, or who wish to escape from the summer heat, the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord is hosting an exhibit on New Hampshire's involvement in the Civil War. Voices from the Front: New Hampshire and the American Civil War, tells the stories of ordinary men from New Hampshire who gave their lives in service and of the sacrifices of their families. This special exhibit will be open to the public until December 31, 2012. For more information please visit the exhibit website at http://www.nhhistory.org/museumexhibits/voices_from_the_front/Voices.html.

For information on other upcoming events at the New Hampshire Historical Society please visit http://www.nhhistory.org/calendar.html.

Massachusetts Genealogical Council Seminar

The Massachusetts Genealogical Council (MGC) will be holding their annual seminar at the Hassenfield Conference Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 21, 2012 from 8:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.  The focus of the presentation is Ethnicity and Genealogy.  For more information please visit the MGC website at http://www.massgencouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=134.

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog! I hope that this blog will provide our group with information on upcoming events, seminars, and conferences, as well as sharing any topic of interest related to our genealogy projects. In order to add a post, please sign in using your Google account and click on the New Post link on the upper right corner of the screen. Please add a label for your post. Please feel free to comment on any posts. Please email me with any questions at cskuzel@yahoo.com.