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Contact:
Josh Taylor
617-226-1226
education@NEHGS.org

Location:
99-101 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116-3007

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Education/Tours
101 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116-3007

Windows to the Past: Newspaper Research
September 15, 2010 10:00AM – 11:00AM
Guest Speaker: Elissa Scalise Powell, CG

Newspapers contain more than obituaries — they record many important events in our ancestor’s lives and can be a substitute for missing vital records. Learn how to access them online and off in order to reap the huge rewards that are hidden in their pages.

About the Speaker: Elissa has been doing genealogical research since 1985, and has been helping others find their ancestral roots since 1990. The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) certified her in 1995 as a Certified Genealogical Records SpecialistSM (CGRS), and changed her designation in 2005 to Certified GenealogistSM (CG). She is one of about a dozen certified associates residing in the state of Pennsylvania. She is a past Trustee for the Board for Certification of Genealogists (2006-2009).

She is the course coordinator for the Professional Genealogy course at the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research held in June at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama and an instructor in the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy held in January in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is a subject matter expert and instructor in Boston University’s Certificate in Genealogical Research program. She also lectures both nationally and regionally.

Elissa enjoys writing articles and book reviews for NGS NewsMagazine, the NGS Quarterly, the APG Quarterly, Digital Genealogist, and the now defunct Genealogical Computing. She was a Director for the Association of Professional Genealogists from 2000 through 2005 and the Participating Societies Chairperson for the National Genealogical Society’s 2003 Conference in Pittsburgh. Elissa is a past president of both the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society and the North Hills Genealogists as well as past newsletter editor for both, and past Program chairperson and Book Review Editor for the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society.

Free and Open to the Public

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Australian Research Seminar
September 22, 2010 10:00AM – 12:00PM

Join NEHGS and guest speaker Helen D. Harris, OAM for two lectures relating to Australian genealogy, “Beginning Your Family History Research in Australia,” and “Finding your Long Lost Relatives in Australia.”

Free and open to the public.

About the Speaker: Helen D. Harris has lived in Whitehorse for more than 30 years, with the past 13 years in Elgar Ward. She is married with two adult daughters. Her main areas of interest are heritage, health and environmental issues. She is affiliated with several local groups including the Box Hill Historical Society, ELGAR Contact, Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies and the Whitehorse Branch of the Greens. Her achievements include: Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 1993 for services to community history; Master of Arts (History); founder and Honorary Life Member Avoca and District Historical Society; inaugural Frances Brown Award for Excellence from the Victorian Association of Family History Organizations in 2004.

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
September 22, 2010 6:00PM – 7:30PM recurs

From the best-selling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries. Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century. Dolin shows how the fur trade, driven by the demands of fashion, sparked controversy, fostered economic competition, and fueled wars among the European powers, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. The trade in beaver, buffalo, sea otter, and other animal skins spurred the exploration and the settlement of the vast American continent, while it alternately enriched and gravely damaged the lives of America’s native peoples. Populated by a larger-than-life cast—including Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant; President Thomas Jefferson; America’s first multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor; and mountain man Kit Carson—Fur, Fortune, and Empire is the most comprehensive and compelling history of the American fur trade ever written. Dolin’s talk, accompanied by slides, will tell the story of fur trade in America, from East to West.

About the Speaker: Eric Jay Dolin is the author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children (www.ericjaydolin.com).

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October New Visitor and Welcome Tour
October 6, 2010 10:00AM – 11:30AM

Starting your family genealogy can seem a little daunting at first. There is so much information found in a variety of locations. Let NEHGS help you make sense of it all by attending this FREE lecture for both members and non-members. This talk introduces you to the NEHGS research library, located at 99 Newbury Street in Boston.

Founded in 1845, NEHGS is the country’s oldest and largest non-profit genealogy library and archive. With more than 15 million artifacts, books, manuscripts, microfilms, journals, photographs, records, and other items, NEHGS can provide researchers of every level some of the most important sources of information.

You will also have an opportunity to describe your research interests to one of our expert genealogists on staff, who can offer some advice on how to proceed. The program starts with a thirty-minute introductory lecture and will be followed by a tour of the library and its vast holdings. Make plans to start your genealogy with this great tour.

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