Boston University Genealogy Program Alumni May Meeting and Irish Genealogy Study Group

May's alumni meeting will be held at NEHGS this Saturday, May 18, at 9:30 P.M. with lunch at noon preceding the meeting. The Irish Genealogy Study Group will meet in the afternoon at 1:30 P.M. 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!

Irish Genealogy Study Group at NEHGS

Irish Genealogy Study Group meetings have resumed at NEHGS. They are usually held on the same Saturday as the Boston University Genealogy Alumni meeting. Please check the weekly NEHGS newsletter for any changes in meeting times. The next meeting of the study group is Saturday morning from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

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.

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.

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.

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.