Genealogy Events Calendar
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March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 27, (10am – noon and 1pm – 2pm) Basic Hands on Genealogy Class, sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts at the Polish Center of Discover and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts. Presented by Alan Doyle Horbal, professional genealogist. There will be a combined class on April 27th at 11am. All students must be computer literate. Limited space, please sign up for sessions. Please attend all four classes. Bring your own laptop. To register, go to www.PGSMA.org
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.
April 1, Saturday, 10am, New Visitor Tour, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free orientation and tour of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit genealogy library and archive. Tour attendees are welcome to use our resources following the tour. No registration necessary.
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, 1 - 2:30pm, Discover Mount Auburn Cemetery, at 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 1.5 mile walking tour will focus on the history, monuments and lives of those buried here. Click here to purchase tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/discover-mount-auburn-tickets-32557072079
April 1, Saturday, 1pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the First Congregational Church, 1 Concord Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Women’s Association of First Baptist Church. Presented by Pam Weeks. Participants are invited to bring one quilt for identification or story sharing. 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 1, 8 and 15, Saturdays, 2pm – 4pm, Building Your Genealogical Skills, a three session course, at The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Ann Lawthers, genealogist. $50 fee. Register here: https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/building-your-genealogical-skills-three-session-course-spring?pass-through=true
April 2, Sunday, 2pm, The Making of Strawbery Banke Museum, at the Ray-Fre Senior Center, 64 Main Street, Raymond, New Hampshire. Hosted by the Friends of the Dudley Tucker Library. Presented by Portsmouth historian, J. Dennis Robinson, who is the author of an award winning book on the Strawbery Banke museum. Free to the public.
April 2, Sunday, 1pm, Life and Death in Colonial Times, at the Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. $10 nonmembers. Presented by the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Luncheon buffet at noon, followed by a lecture by Judy Chevarley and docent lead house tours 2pm – 3pm.
April 2, Sunday, 2pm, Meet Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, at the Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main Street, Lancaster, Massachusetts. A person show researched, written and performed by Katie Green, about Lancaster's own Mary Rowlandson who was captured by the Indians in 1675 during King Philip's War, and later redeemed. . Free to the public.
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 4, Tuesday, 6:30pm, New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones, at the Newport Historical Society, 58 North Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire. Presented by Glenn Knoblock with rubbings, photographs, and slides to illustrate the rich variety of gravestones in New Hampshire, and tell of historical events such as the Great Awakening, the Throat Distemper epidemic, and the American Revolution. Free to the public.
April 5, Wednesday, 7pm, Genealogy Research Night, at the Beverly Historical Society, 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. Tips and techniques for researching your family tree with historian and researcher, Terri McFadden, and local historian Ed Brown. Free for members, $5 nonmembers.
April 6, Thursday, 6:30pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Fremont Public Library, 7 Jackie Bernier Drive, Fremont, New Hampshire. Presented by Pam Weeks. Participants are invited to bring one quilt for identification or story sharing. Free to the public.
April 7, Friday, noon, Applying to Lineage Societies, at the New Engand Historic Genealogy Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. A step by step look at the application process, with a case example from the research services team. Free. Register here: https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/applying-to-lineage-societies?pass-through=true
April 7, Friday, noon, Songs of Emigration: Storytelling through Tradtional Irish Music, at the Mountain View Senior Center, 134 East Main Street, Bradford, New Hampshire. Presented by Jordan Tirrell- Wysocki with his fiddle and guitar. Free to the public.
April 7, Friday, 6:30pm, Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War, at the Goshen Town Hall, 54 Mill Village Road North, Goshen, New Hampshire. Free to the Public. Presented by historian Carrie Brown. Free potluck begins at 5:30.
April 8, Saturday, 9:30am, Irish Study Group, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Led by Mary Ellen Grogan megrogan@ix.netcom.com Free, no registration necessary.
April 8, Saturday, 10:30am, Bedford Parade and Liberty Pole Capping, at Wilson Park in Bedford, Massachusetts. Minutemen from all over New England will march down The Great Road to Wilson Park for the Liberty Pole Capping tradition. Contact the Bedford Minuteman Company for more information: http://www.bedfordminutemancompany.org/
April 8, Saturday, 1pm, Meriam’s Corner Battle Re-enactment, at Meriam’s Corner, Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts. Contact the Minute Man National Historical Park for more information: https://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm
April 8, Saturday, 3pm, Paul Revere Capture Ceremony, at the Paul Revere Capture Site at Minute Man National Historical Park, Route 2A in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Music, dramatic reading, musket fire, marching re-enactors. For all ages. Contact the Lincoln Minute Men: http://www.lincolnminutemen.org/
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 8, 15, 22, and 29, Saturdays, 4:30- 5:30pm, The Course of Irish History: The Viking Invasion, 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 look at the effect that the Vikings had on Ireland from their arrival in 795AD until the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.
April 10, 10am, Genealogy and DNA, at the Littleton Library Genealogy Club, at the Reuben Hoar Public Library, 41 Shattuck Street, Littleton, Massachusetts. Presented by Sandra Murray. Free to the public.
April 10, Monday, 6pm, Author Talk: Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. $10 registration fee. Pre-talk reception at 5:30pm. Presented by author Ronald H. Epp. https://www.masshist.org/calendar
April 11, Tuesday, 7pm, Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: An American Idol, at the Pierce Manse, 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by Alan Hoffman. Sponsored by the Buntin-Rumford-Webster Chapter DAR and the NH Humanities council.
April 12, Wednesday, 6pm, The Rise and Fall of the American Party, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Peter Drummey, who will lecture about the “Know Nothings”. https://www.masshist.org/calendar
April 13, Thursday, 5:30pm, Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano present “John Singer Sargent in Boston”, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. $10 fee for members of Nichols House Museum and NEHGS, $15 non members. Book sale and signing to follow. Register here: http://www.nicholshousemuseum.org/programs_events.php
April 13, Thursday, 7pm, Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast about Early American History, 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 historian/podcaster Liz Covart.
April 13, Thursday, 2:30pm, Vanished Veteran’s – New Hampshire’s Civil War Monuments and Memorials, at Heritage Heights, Tad’s Place Arts Center, 149 East Side Drive, Concord, New Hampshire. Presented by George Morrison, who located, inventoried, and photographed New Hampshire’s Civil War memorials. Free to the public.
April 14, 3:30 - 6:30 pm, Failte Fridays by TIARA (The Irish Ancestral Research Association), at 84 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. This monthly meeting is a chance to meet other members and browse the TIARA library. http://www.tiara.ie/
April 15, Saturday, 10am, New Visitor Tour, at NEHGS, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free orientation and tour. Attendees are welcome to use the library following the tour. No registration necessary.
April 15, Saturday, 1pm, Dead People I Have Met, at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Literary historian Rob Veiella discusses his chatty memoir of his visits to author's graves across the United States, and what motivates his hobby. Admission fee. See this page https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dead-people-i-have-met-lecture-tickets-32696526190?aff=erellivmlt
April 15, 1pm, Finding the Stories of your Ancestors, at the Essex Society of Genealogists, at the Centre Congregational Church, 5 Summer Street, Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Parking available at the rear of the building off Main Street. Presented by Pamela Holland. http://www.esog.org/ Noon social and BYO lunch, followed by the 1pm lecture.
April 15, Saturday, Battle Road, Parker’s Revenge/ Tower Park events in Lexington, Massachusetts will be re-created all day see this event page http://www.battleroad.org/
April 15, 10:30am, Explore Bloody Angle with Edmund Foster, at the Hartwell Tavern area, Minute Man National Park, 100 North Great Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts. A re-enactor will portray Edmund Foster, a Minute Man volunteer, who will lead a tour to this key battle site where he fought in 1775. Free to the public.
April 17, Monday, 5:30 am, The Battle on Lexington Green, will be re-created in Lexington Center, on the Green. See the Town of Lexington schedule of events for important details and restrictions on backpacks, containers and ladders. http://www.battleroad.org/
April 17, Monday, 8am, Commemoration of the Battle at the North Bridge, at the Minute Man National Park, North Bridge location, Concord, Massachusetts. A re-creation of the “Shot heard ‘round the world”.
April 18, Tuesday, 10am, Finding Cousins Using Autosomal DNA, sponsored by the Cape Cod Genealogy Society, at the Brewster Ladies Library, Rt. 6A, Brewster, Massachusetts. Presented by Pamela Guye Holland. Refreshments start at 9:30am. Free to the public.
April 18, Tuesday, 7 - 9m, The City That William Pynchon Built: The Agawam Plantation, sponsored by the Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society, at the American Legion Post #129, 22 Elm Street, Gardner, Massachusetts. Presented by Dave Robison.
April 19, Wednesday, 6pm, American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public, presented by author Vincent Cannato.
April 19, Wednesday, 6pm, Book Event: Puritan, Entrepreneur, Heretic?, at the NEHGS, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by author David M. Powers who will lecture about William Pynchon (1590 – 1662). Book sales and signing to follow. Free to the public. Register here: https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/book-event-puritan-entrepreneur-heretic?pass-through=true
April 19, Wednesday, 7:30, Reinterpretation of 16 Elm House, one of the Wednesday Evening Lectures in the Appleton Room of the Ipswich, Museum Heard House, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Presented by author Bob Booth, who will talk about his work with the Smithsonian Museum’s exhibit of the house from 16 Elm Street, Ipswich. Members free, non-members $10.
April 19, Wednesday, 7:30pm, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, 15 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts, presented by author and historian Wendy Warren. Copies of New England Bound will be available for purchase and signing.
April 19, Wednesday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the North Hampton Town Hall, 231 Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton, New Hampshire. Hosted by the North Hampton Historical Society. Present by Steve Taylor. Free to the public.
April 19, Wednesday, 7pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Paul Memorial Library, 76 Main Street, Newfields, New Hampshire. Presented by Pam Weeks. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Free to the public.
April 20, Thursday, 7pm, Customs Enforcement in Salem, Massachusetts: Prelude to War 1760, 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 park ranger Curtis White, using notebooks and journals of comtoms Comptroller, John Mascarene. For information call 1-978-740-1650
April 20, Thursday, 5 – 8pm, Open Doors Arts and Cultural Tour, at the Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. FREE to the public. Hop on the trolley and visit art galleries and museums in the city of Manchester including the Millyard Museum, SEE Science Center, Art’s Gallery, Art on the Wall at City Hall, Langer Place, E. W. Poore, Studio 550, Framer’s Market and Arbor in the Millyard at Manchester Vineyard Community Church. The trolley stops every 20 – 30 minutes all evening. Easy parking at Langer Place at 55 S. Commercial Street, or at 200 Bedford Street (site of the Millyard Museum).
April 21, Friday, noon, Middays at the Meeting House: Boston’s Neighborhood Churches: Restoration Stories and Lost Treasures, at the Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. $6 per person. Presented by stained glass historian and preservation advocate Judy Neiswander.
April 21, Friday, 10:15am, “If I am Not For Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave, at the Community Church of Durham, 17 Main Street, Durham, New Hampshire. Presented by living historian Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti portraying Ona Judge, a runaway slave. Free to the public. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.
April 21, Friday, 1:30pm, "Ours Faithfully, Florence Burke", at the Rodgers Library, Hudson, New Hampshire. Presented by the author Ellen B. Alden based on Civil War letters. Free to the public, sponsored by the Hudson Library Genealogy Club.
April 22, Saturday, 10:30am – 11:30am, Fire Engine Day, at the Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Suite 103, Manchester, New Hampshire. A chance for kids to learn how a hand tub fire engine and a steam fire engine work. Including a visit from one of the Manchester Fire Department’s modern fire trucks.
April 22, Saturday, Broadening Your Research Horizons: Spring Conference of the American Canadian Genealogy Society, at the ACGS Library, 4 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. See the conference brochure at this link: https://acgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/ACGS%20SPRING%20CONFERENCE%202017%20order%20form.pdf
April 22, Saturday, 1 – 3pm, French Canadian Genealogy Society Spring General Membership Meeting, at the Tolland Recreational Center, 104 Post Road, in Tolland, Connecticut. Coffee, a brief business meeting, followed by guest speaker Ron Blanchette who will give on presentation on the 1759 Battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec. Open to non-members.
April 24, Monday, 10 - 11am, General Stark Day, at the Stark Park, Riverside Road, Manchester, New Hampshire. Assemble at the Stark family burial plot for a memorial ceremony in honor of General John Stark, Revolutionary War hero. There will be proclamations by the mayor and governor, militia musket salutes, wreath laying and an honorary ceremony by the DAR and SAR. Free to the public. Bring blankets or chairs.
April 24, Monday, 7pm, Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War, at the Stone School Museum, 1 Granite Street, Newmarket, New Hampshire. Presented by historian Carrie Brown. Free to the public. Sponsored by the Newmarket Historical Society and the NH Humanities Council.
April 25, Tuesday, 7pm, Historic US route 20, at the Peter Rice Homestead, 377 Elm Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts. This is the annual meeting and elections of the Marlborough Historical Society, with speaker Bryan Farr.
April 25, Tuesday, 7pm, “If I am Not for Myself Who Will Be for Me?”, at the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. A one person play about George Washington’s runaway slave Oney Judge Staines. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/public-program-gwendolyn-quezaire-presutti
April 26, Wednesday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Plymouth Old Webster Courthouse, 6 Court Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor. Free to the public. Sponsored by the Plymouth Historical Society and the NH Humanities Council.
April 26 -29th, 2017, NERGC 2017, at the Mass Mutual Center, 1277 Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts www.nergc.org
April 27, Thursday, 7pm, Crosscut: The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin River, at the Pierce Manse, 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire. Presented by Rebecca Rule, who uses oral histories and vintage photos to tell the story of the logging industry. Assisted by John Rule with a Power Point presentation of information on his own research into the history of the Brown Company as an archivist at the New Hampshire Historical Society. Free to the public.
April 29, Saturday 4pm, Revolutionary History at the Central Cemetery, at the Beverly Historical Society, 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. $5 nonmembers, free to members. Join Terri and Ed McFadden on a walk through Central Cemetery.
April 30, Sunday, 9:30am – 4:30pm, Breaking Down Genealogical Brick Walls: Strategies for Success, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Cost $125 breakfast and lunch included. Register here: https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/breaking-down-genealogical-brick-walls-strategies-for-success?pass-through=true
May 3, Wednesday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Veteran’s Hall, 105 Old Homestead Highway, Richmond, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor. Free to the public. Sponsored by the Richmond Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.
Future events:
May 2, 9, 16 and 23, Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11am, Basic Hands on Genealogy Class, sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts at the Polish Center of Discover and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts. Presented by Alan Doyle Horbal, professional genealogist. All students must be computer literate. Limited space, please sign up for sessions. Please attend all four classes. Bring your own laptop. To register, go to www.PGSMA.org
June 22-24, Wednesday, 26th Annual World History Association Conference, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts. http://www.thewha.org/2017-boston-conference/
August 5-6, Redcoats and Rebels, at The Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. New England’s largest military re-enactment with nearly 1,000 soldiers portraying British, Irish, Spanish, Scottish, French and Colonial troops. Mock battles, skirmishes, tour the camps, listen to martial music, and much more.
September 30, Saturday, American Canadian Genealogy Society Fall Conference, Manchester, New Hampshire.
October 14, Saturday, 1 – 3pm, French Canadian Genealogy Society Fall General Membership Meeting. Coffee, a brief business meeting, followed by guest speaker Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Open to non-members.
December 16, The 243rd Anniversary Boston Tea Party Reenactment, at the Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Witness the debate over the tea tax, then join the procession to Griffin’s Wharf and witness the destruction of the tea by the Sons of Liberty. Fee for the meeting inside the Meeting house.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "April 2017 Genealogy and Local History Event Calendar", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 30, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/april-2017-genealogy-and-local-history.html: accessed [access date]).
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