For last minute updates, see the Nutfield Genealogy Facebook page at this link: https://www.facebook.com/nutfield.gen/
Notice: The Friends of the
Little Library in Littleton, Massachusetts are sponsoring an “Evening Genealogy Series” this month –
see below on March 9th, 15th, and 23rd.
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March 1, Wednesday, 10am, A Soldier's Mother Tells Her Story, at the Marrion Gerrish Community Center, 39 West Broadway, Derry, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Amoskeag Questers, presented by living historian Sharon Wood who will speak as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg. Free to the public, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
March 1, 6pm, Book Event: Darkness Falls on the Land of Light, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Free to the public, presented by author Douglas L. Winiarski.
March 1, Wednesday, 10am, A Soldier's Mother Tells Her Story, at the Marrion Gerrish Community Center, 39 West Broadway, Derry, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Amoskeag Questers, presented by living historian Sharon Wood who will speak as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg. Free to the public, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
March 1, 6pm, Book Event: Darkness Falls on the Land of Light, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Free to the public, presented by author Douglas L. Winiarski.
March 4, Saturday, 2pm, Tea & Sweets: A Colonial Tea, at the Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts. Non members $20, members $15 includes museum admisstion. Space is limited, please reserve a seat at 978-369-9753 ext. 216.
March 4, March 11, 25 and April 1st. Saturdays, 4:30- 5:30pm, The Course of Irish History: The History of St. Patrick, at the Irish Cultural Center of New England, Canton, Massachusetts. The course will be taught by Sean Murphy. $65 for 4 weeks/ members $50. Walk ins on the day $20. Call 781-821-8291 to sign up today. This course will cover his life, recorded works and his legacy.
March 4, Saturday, 1pm, The DAR Genealogical Research System, at the East Bridgewater Public Library, 21 Union Street, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Plymouth County Genealogists, Inc. Presented by Gail E. Terry, Honorary State Regent of the Massachusetts Daughter of the American Revolution, and Vicent President General of the National DAR. Join PCGI members at the meeting (FREE and elevator accessible). Socialize with refreshments at 12noon. Visit PCGI at http://www.plymouthcountygenealogist.org and on Facebook.
March 4, Saturday, 1pm, Greater Portland Genealogical Society Meeting, at the First Congregational Church of Christ, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine. Free, but donations are requested. Refreshments at 12:30. A program is planned.
March 5, Sunday, 2pm, “If I am Not for Myself, Who will Be for Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave, at the Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hosted by the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail and sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Presented by living historian Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti portraying Oney Judge Staines who ran away from Mount Vernon to freedom in New Hampshire. Free to the public.
March 5, Sunday 1pm – 4pm, American Canadian Genealogical Society Brick Wall Meeting, at the ACGS Library, 4 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. The first Sunday of every month. Please email your brickwall challenge a few days prior to ACGS@acgs.org. For more information see www.acgs.org
March 5, Sunday, 11:30am, Boston Massacre Re-enactment, at the Old State House, 206 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Council of Minutemen and Militia. Free.
March 6, Monday, 6:30pm, Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Avenue, Atkinson, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Friends of the Kimball Public Library, Free to the public. Presented by award winning fiddler Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki.
March 6, Monday, 7pm, The Washington's Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Free to the public. Presented by historian and professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar and author Annett Gordon-Reed for a discussion on Dunbar's latest book "Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge".
March 7, Tuesday, 7pm, The History of Squamscot Soda, at the Exeter Historical Society, 47 Front Street, PO Box 924, Exeter, New Hampshire. Presented by Tom and Dan Conner. $5 suggested donation for non-members. Refreshments at 6:30pm. http://www.exeterhistory.org/
March 8, Wednesday, 6pm, The Fun of Writing Oral History and Biography: Lessons from Author and Historian Larry Ruttman, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 -101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. Book sales and signing to follow the presentation.
March 8, Wednesday, 6:30pm, Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the New Boston Community Church, 2 Meetinghouse Road, New Boston, New Hampshire. Hosted by the New Boston Historical Society. Free to the public. Presented by award winning fiddler Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki.
March 9, Thursday, 5:30pm, The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: US Slave Trading in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1795 – 1809, at the Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, Rhode Island. Presented by Alex Borucki, author. $5 per person. RSVP online at NewportHistory.org or call 401-841-8770.
March 9, Thursday, 1pm, Rally Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong, at the Rye Congregational Church, 580 Washington Road, Rye, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Town of Rye Recreation Department. Presented by Woody Pringle and Marek Bennett. Free to the public.
March 9, Thursday, 7pm, The Culinary Lives of John and Abigail Adams: A Cookbook, at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, National Park Visitor Center, 2 New Liberty Street, Salem, Massachusetts. Doors open at 6:30pm. Free to the public. Call for more information 978-740-1650. Presented by author/historian Rosana Wan.
March 9, Thursday, 7pm, Documentation Without Tears, at the Littleton Public Library, 41 Shattuck Street, Littleton, Massachusetts, for more information 978-540-2600 www.littletonlibrary.org Sponsored by the Friends of the Reuben Hoar Library, and presented by Denise Picard Lindgren, MSOG state President.
March 11, Saturday, 9:30 am – noon, NEHGS/TIARA Irish Genealogy Seminar, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Registration is necessary and seating is limited. Register at 617-226-1226. Speakers Deborah Sullivan Gellerson, Margaret Feeney LaCombe, Jean Maguire, and Eileen Pironti. https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/nehgs-tiara-irish-genealogy-seminar?pass-through=true $20 per person.
March 11, Saturday, 10am, Sandy River Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society Meeting, at the Farmington Public Library, 117 Academy Street, Farmington, Maine. See the website www.sandyriver.maineroots.org
March 11, Saturday, 11am, Textile Conservation, at the Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Sponsored by the Manchester Historic Association and presented by Camille Myers Breeze, director of Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. Included with admission to the museum.
March 11, Saturday, noon – 1pm, Irish Genealogy at the Middlesex Genealogical Society, at the Darien Library, 1141 Post Road, Darien, Connecticut. Irish genealogy will be presented by Jonathan Shea. www.mgs.darien.org/meetings.htm
March 11, Saturday, 6pm, Hearthside Bounty, at the Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Experience an evening in a 19th century tavern with a meal cooked over a hearth, old fashioned entertainment, and a look at table manners in the 1800s. Music and stories, period games and entertainment. $54.95 per person, OSV members $49.95. Registration required at this link: https://www.osv.org/event/hearthsidebounty/hearthside-bounty-Mar11
March 11, Saturday, 9:20am – 4:30pm, Hacking Heritage Unconference, at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Who decides what is preserved? How are these decisions made? Who funds heritage preservation? Why? See this link for more information http://blogs.brown.edu/hackingheritageunconference/
March 12, Sunday, 1pm, Notable Women of Watertown Tour , at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Join volunteer docent Rosemarie Smurzynski to visit graves and learn about the painters, writers and sculptors buried here. Get tickets at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/notable-women-of-watertown-tickets-27609383409?aff=es2
March 15, Wednesday, 1pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate Carriage House, 266 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire. Hosted by the New Hampshire Weaver's Guild. Presented by Pam Weeks. Participants may bring in one quilt for identification and/or story sharing. Free to the public.
March 15, Wednesday, 4pm, Which Matthew O’Neill is Mine?: Approaches to Irish Genealogy, presented by Jake Fletcher, for the Eagle House Senior Community Center, 25 Memorial Drive, Lunenburg, Massachusetts. Free to the public.
March 15, Wednesday, 6pm, Penobscot County Genealogical Society Meeting, at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine. Meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. See www.pengen.org
March 15, Wednesday, 6pm, Finding your Revolutionary War Ancestors at the Massachusetts Archives, to be held at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. Presented by John Hannigan, the head of reference services at the Massachusetts Archives, and a PhD. Candidate in the History Department at Brandeis University.
March 15, Wednesday, 7pm, A Tribute to Sarah Josepha Hale, at the Marion Gerrish Community Center, 29 West Broadway, Derry, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Londonderry Women's Club. Presented by living historian Sharon Wood. Free to the public.
March 15, Wednesday, 7:30, The Renaissance of the Railroads, one of the Wednesday Evening Lectures in the Appleton Room of the Ipswich, Museum Heard House, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Presented by speaker Darius Gaskins. Members free, non-members $10.
March 16, Thursday, 7pm, Navigating Online Genealogy Research, at the Littleton Public Library, 41 Shattuck Street, Littleton, Massachusetts, for more information 978-540-2600 www.littletonlibrary.org Sponsored by the Friends of the Reuben Hoar Library, and presented by Claire Smith, certified genealogist.
March 17, Friday, 7:15pm, The Lost Gettysburg Address: Charles Anderson's Civil War Odyssey, at the Epping Town Hall, 157 Main Street, Epping, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by David Dixon and sponsored by the Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire. There were two orators on stage with Lincoln at the Gettysburg dedication. The concluding speech by Anderson was lost until recently when an anthropologist found it in a cardboard box on a remote ranch in Wyoming. http://cwrt-nh.org
March 18, 2017, Saturday, History Camp Boston, at Sargent Hall, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts.
March 18, Saturday, 9:30 - noon, Irish Genealogy Study Group, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. The Irish Genealogy Study Group meets every month to talk about research problems and share solutions. Contact Mary Ellen Grogan at megrogan@ix.netcom.com for more information. No registration neccessary.
March 18, Saturday, 1:30 – 3pm, Connecticut Society of Genealogists Meeting, at the CSG Library, 175 Maple Street, East Hartford, Connecticut. Please join us for a special event just in time to prepare for the 14th New England Regional Genealogical Conference in April. Free, but please pre-register at csginc@csginc.org or call 860-569-0002.
March 18, Saturday, 9am – noon, Half Day Members Meeting of the Rhode Island Genealogical Society. http://www.rigensoc.org/
March 19, Sunday, 2pm – 3pm, Taconnet Falls Chapter Maine Genealogical Society Meeting, at 10 Lithgow Street, Winslow, Maine. Visit www.taconnett.maineroots.org
March 20, Monday, 1pm, Vanished Veterans - New Hampshire's Civil War Monuments and Memorials, at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South Street, Bow, New Hampshire. Hosted by the State Employees Association Chapter 1 (Retired). Free to the public. Presented by historian George Morrison.
March 22, Wednesday, 7pm, New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State, at the Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, New Hamsphire. Presented by Glenn Knoblock, and hosted by the Kensington Public Library. Free to the public.
March 22, Wednesday, 7pm, German Genealogy Workshop, at the Memorial Hall Library, 2 North Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts. Katherine Schober, a professional German translator and handwriting expert will share her experience helping genealogy clients decipher old German handwritten documents. 978-623-8436. Free to the public.
March 23, Thursday, 7pm, Legacy Preservation: How to Archive Personal History, at the Littleton Public Library, 41 Shattuck Street, Littleton, Massachusetts, for more information 978-540-2600 www.littletonlibrary.org Sponsored by the Friends of the Reuben Hoar Library, and presented by Rhoda J. Chadwick.
March 25, Saturday, 9:15 - 12:45 am, New York and Connecticut: Finding Records, Telling Stories, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Join NEHGS and the New England Association of Professional Genealogists (NEAPG) for a half day seminar. $20 per person. NEAPG members FREE. email smoconnor@verizon.net to register.
March 25, Saturday, 10am, Utilizing DNA in your Genealogy Research - A Workshop, by the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, at the Georgetown Peabody Library, 2 Maple Street, Georgetown, Massachusetts. If you have had DNA testing, bring your results and the name of your testing company. Free to the public. http://www.msoginc.org/msogwp/chapter/mv/
March 25, Saturday, 1 pm, Songs of Immigration: Storytelling through Traditional Irish Music, at the Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Sponsored by the Manchester Historic Association, and presented by Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki, who will relay some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish immigrants. Free and open to the public.
March 25, Saturday, 1:30, Genealogist’s Handbook for Irish Research, at the Chelmsford Genealogy Club, at the Chelmsford Library, 25 Boston Road, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Presented by author Marie Daley. Free to the public. Marie will not be selling her book at this meeting. It is available at NEHGS and Amazon.
March 25, Saturday, 1 – 4pm, Tracing Irish Roots Workshop, at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire, taught in conjunction with the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston. This workshop is $35 members, $50 nonmembers. Space is limited, please register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tracing-irish-roots-workshop-registration-30676666736?aff=erelpanelorg or call 603-856-0621
March 27, Monday, 6:30pm, Robert Frost Program, at the Derry Public Library, Derry, New Hampshire. Join the Derry town historian, Rick Holmes, for a birthday celebration for Derry’s most famous poet. Contact 603-432-6140
March 28, Tuesday, 7pm, Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society Meeting, at the American Legion Post #129, 22 Elm Street, Gardner, Massachusetts. Speaker Patricia Perry will be discussing "Under the Petticoats". Guests are welcome for a $2 donation. See www.cmgso.org For more information email queenkatt64@yahoo.com
March 30, Thursday, 6:30pm, Italian Genealogy Research: Records and Resources in Italy, at the Franklin Historical Museum, 80 W. Central Street, Franklin, Massachusetts. Hosted by Mary Tedesco. For more information http://vbuchanio.wixsite.com/franklingenclub
March 31, Friday, Memorial Hall Library Genealogy Lock In, at the Memorial Hall Library 2 North Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts. This annual after hours event has been very popular. For $10 you will have an evening of genealogy research with exclusive access to databases online, computers, microfilm, and the Andover room. A light dinner will be served. Registration is limited, please preregister at the library or call 978-623-8436.
Looking ahead:
April 1, Saturday, 10:30pm, Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them, at the Hooksett Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, New Hampshire. Hosted by the White Mountain Woolen Magic Rug Hooking Guild. Presented by storyteller Jo Radner. Participants will practice finding, developing and telling their own tales. Free to the public.
April 1, Saturday, 1pm, Greater Portland Genealogical Society Meeting, at the First Congregational Church of Christ, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine. Free, but donations are requested. Refreshments at 12:30. A program is planned.
April 4 and May 2nd, Tuesday, 7pm, DNA and Genealogy, by the Chelmsford Genealogy Club at the Chelmsford Public Library, 25 Boston Road, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Presented by Dr. Sandra Murray. Free to the public. On April 1st she will discuss DNA biology, the four different kinds of DNA tests and the 4 types of DNA. The May 2nd meeting will be a worksheet format and will look at DNA results and how to transfer your test to GED match.
April 8, Saturday, New England Family History Conference, at the LDS Church, 91 Jordan Road, Franklin, Massachusetts. 508-553-0977 or email MA_Franklin@ldsmail.net.
April 26 -29th, 2017, NERGC 2017, at the Mass Mutual Center, 1277 Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts www.nergc.org
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "March 2017 Genealogy and Local History Calendar", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 24, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/02/march-2017-genealogy-and-local-history.html: accessed [access date]).
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