Genealogy

Saturday, June 5, 2010
MSOG, Merrimack Valley Chapter Meeting
When June 5 at 9:30 AM
Where Lawrence History Center, 6 Essex St, Lawrence,MA.
Come & Join Us !
Be prepared to make a three minute presentation on one of the following:
* discoveries made
* brick walls encountered
* resources and websites used
* interesting websites
* surnames, ethnicity, locations of your ancestors
* a portion of your pedigree

It will be a fun and great way to introduce ourselves!
For those interested, information may be put in a MV chapter notebook to share with members.

Karen Trearchis, President, Merrimack Valley Chapter

(Directions go to http://www.lawrencehistorycenter.org/ & massog.org)
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Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG)

It's official! We have been voted in! The State Board of MSOG has voted to accept the Merrimack Valley as a official chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists! Our new officers are:
President- Karen Trearchis
Vice-President- Frances J. Ford
Secretary- Susan Fougstedt
Treasurer- Diane Laferriere
Membership- Beth LaPlume

Thank you to Frank, Susan, Diane and Beth for stepping forward to assist our chapter!

I look forward to us working together as a chapter to learn new strategies in doing our genealogical research and sharing our results with each other.

Our next meeting is Saturday, June 5th, at 9:30 AM at the Lawrence History Center, 6 Essex St. Lawrence,MA

http://massog.org/
http://www.lawrencehistorycenter.org/
More information will be sent out on what to bring with you at our next meeting.
Karen Trearchis, President, Merrimack Valley Chapter
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Language Translation sites
One of our members stated at our last meeting that she knew of a website for translating French to English. Here is the information she sent me.
Karen Trearchis, Pres., MV Chapter

Here is the URL I promised and a few other urls follow at the end of the email.

Search the wiki @ FamilySearch | https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
search on any or all of the following terms: french genealogical word list

The following is an example of the kind of translation help you can find on their site (best of all it's free).

R E S E A R C H G U I D A N C E
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/RG/guide/WLFrench.asp#language_ch...

French
Genealogical Word List
Table of Contents
Language Characteristics
Additional Resources
Key Words
General Word List

Numbers
Dates And Time
Also available:

The following [word list] includes only words most commonly found in genealogical sources.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/RG/guide/WLFrench.asp#additional_...

Quebec Language and Languages
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Quebec_Language_and_Languages

France Language and Languages
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France_Language_and_Languages

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Public Libraries Facing Challenging Times
Please support our public libraries. Contact your local and state legislators - Libraries are not just for books any more - they are a genealogy center, community center, respite, research center, education site, melting pot of the community, technology center - filled with talented, resourceful people who enrich our lives and our communities.
The State is discussing major cuts to libraries in the amount of 28%- for this year alone. This is so serious and could decimate libraries as we know them today. Libraries are vital, especially in serious financial times - they are a free, public resource for everyone.

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Note from Karen Favazza Spencer
Although he grew up in Boston and lived his life in Gloucester, my dad, Salvatore J Favazza was born in Lawrence on 7 April 1923. His toddler sister also died in a tragic accident in Lawrence and his two aunts raised their families in Lawrence.
If you're interested, I have some research concerning these events on my website. The most interesting page is this one:
Story Page: http://web.me.com/seabreezes1/Karen_Spencer/Favazza_History.html
In the audio by Mary Orlando, she describes the fire that killed her sister in Lawrence.
The one that is most data rich with 8 reference to Lawrence would be this one (there is some missing info):
Favazza Family: http://web.me.com/seabreezes1/Karen_Spencer/Family_Tree_files/FrankPaulF...
You have my permission to add my website as a link on yours. http://web.me.com/seabreezes1

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Note from Rebekah Craft
Hello,
I recently enjoyed visiting your website and discovering information related to the state of Massachusetts!
We've placed your link on our Massachusetts resources page at MyGenealogist.com. A lot of visitors and clients check our site for helpful resources related to Massachusetts, so this link will definitely be of interest to them in their research efforts.

We were wondering if you might also be able to place a link to us on one of your resource pages? We would really appreciate the help as we are trying to make people aware of how we might assist them with their local genealogy research at the MA State Library, MA State Archives, local public libraries, and at the LDS Family History in Salt Lake City, Utah. We've done thousands of research hours in Massachusetts, surrounding New England states and we love what we do!

In addition to the researchers who work for us at the state capital in Augusta and throughout the state, we also have researchers who've had great success tracing many families to their place of original outside of the United States. We often do original onsite research in Ireland, the UK, Italy, Poland, etc, and then end up connecting different branches of a particular family on both sides of the Atlantic!

We welcome any project and enjoy being of help and service to people of many different backgrounds. Diversity is important to us and we are also specialists in African-American and other types of genealogical research having worked on hundreds of cases with many different types of people from just about everywhere.
Here are a couple of links where you can learn more about us:
http://www.mygenealogist.com (home page)

http://www.mygenealogist.com/massachusetts-genealogy.htm (MA county links and resources pages)
Thanks so much for all your help!
Kind regards,
Rebekah Craft
MyGenealogist.com
www.mygenealogist.com

Note from Bob Hull, LHC Genealogy member
Mr. Hull reports that for those of you who are interested , he was able to acquire an e-card from the Boston Public Library on-line and he now has access to Heritage Quest .

Genealogy Meeting September 2008

Author Alvin Oikle speaking to Genealogy Group

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For a complete list of upcoming genealogy and other events, please see our calendar.

You might want to take a look at the web site remembering the Canobie Ballroom from the 1930's to the 1950's. The address is: www.canobieballroom.com

The Lawrence History Center Genealogy Group is often an informal sharing of information and insights into the process of researching family histories. There are also frequent guest speakers and field trips. Join us!,

The Genealogy Group has been very helpful to the Lawrence History Center by encouraging people who have completed family histories to donate a copy to the organization. This offers a significant benefit to new researchers in their own efforts, because many current or former Lawrenciens share ancestors. We currently have family histories that provide information on about 900 surnames.

Research assistance is available for people who live too far away to come to the Center or use other local resources. We charge $20 per hour for this service.