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Genealogy Series: Researching Your Institutionalized Ancestors

 

Researching institutionalized ancestors can be a real task and can require close research at the local level to unearth clues. Whether your ancestor was at the state hospital, a children’s home, a prison, or another institution, the path you take to research them can be well off the typical databases. What can you expect to find, if anything, and where should you begin to look? Join us for a case study as we track one ancestor from the institution to the archives.

 

Genealogy Series: Researching Your Institutionalized Ancestors

 

Researching institutionalized ancestors can be a real task and can require close research at the local level to unearth clues. Whether your ancestor was at the state hospital, a childrens home, a prison, or another institution, the path you take to research them can be well off the typical databases. What can you expect to find, if anything, and where should you begin to look? Join us for a case study as we track one ancestor from the institution to the archives.

 

Genealogy Series: Using American Ancestors with Rhonda R. McClure

This program introduces the viewer to American Ancestors – New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS). With a focus on what is available to virtual viewers, this program talks about navigating the website, exploring databases, finding subject guides, research templates, and more. The online accessible collections cover a wide range of genealogical records from the 17th to 21st century and span geographic locations from New England, the rest of the United States, as well as Canada and Europe.

The Life of Gene Siskel

It's a sequel! As a follow-up to last year's program on Roger Ebert, we're looking at Gene Siskel- the other half of Siskel and Ebert. We'll look at his early life, his path to film criticism, and his favorite films.

Oh, and some fun disagreements with Roger.

This program will be presented via Zoom.

Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares

Jennie Powers took a stand against social vices in New Hampshire and Vermont in the early twentieth century. She was a humane society agent in Keene from 1903-1936 and one of the first humane society agents to become a deputy sheriff in New Hampshire. Jennie was known across the country as "The Woman Who Dares" cited by the Boston Post newspaper in 1906 as having arrested more men than any other woman in America. As a photographic activist, she used her camera to document animal cruelty, family violence, and wide-spread poverty in New Hampshire's Monadnock region and beyond.

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