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From: Sharon Sergeant <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL COUNCIL
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:18:04 -0800 (PST)


MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL COUNCIL
The Massachusetts Genealogical Council acts as a frontline advocate to the genealogical community,
monitoring legislation relating to vital records and working to ensure the publics right to
access.

ANNUAL MEETING AND SEMINAR
"Beyond Vital Records", Alumnae Hall, Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA
Saturday, March 29, 2003

8:00 to 9:00Registration Desk, Vendor Booths and Continental Breakfast (included) in Upper
Student Union foyer
9:00 to 10:00Annual Meeting with Update on Public Records Issues and Legislation, led by Bernie
Couming, President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council in Upper Student Union Lounge

10:00 to 10:15Break and Vendor Booths
10:15 to 11:15FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK: RECORDS RESOURCES AND ISSUES IN MASSACHUSETTS
TOWN AND CITIES by Peter Koutoujian, retired Waltham MA City Clerk Learn about other town and
city records in addition to the birth, marriage and death records, as well as the issues that
that town clerks have had to deal during the rapid growth of genealogy research requests.

11:15 to 11:30Break and Vendor Booths
11:30 to 12:30USING PHOTOGRAPHS TO GATHER ORAL HISTORY: STIRRING MEMORIES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND
GROUPS by Ruth Thomasian, Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, Watertown, MA An overview
of how to help collaborate with others to identify photographs and collect oral histories
especially helpful for refugee populations or other situations when vital records sources have
been destroyed.

12:30 to 1:30Lunch (included) in Upper Student Union cafeteria, Vendor Booths in the in Upper
Student Union foyer
1:30 to 2:30GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATIONS FOR RECORDS PRESERVATION : WASHINGTON COUNTY MAINE RECORDS
PRESERVATION FUND MODEL by Sharon Howland, Grantor and Trustee of the Washington
County, Maine Records Preservation Fund Learn how local people can collaborate to preserve
deteriorating records and those that have never been copied through simple and cost effective
methods providing backup in the case of government budget cuts, fires and floods.
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2:30 to 2:45Break
2:45 to 3:45READ BETWEEN THE LINES: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
by David Allen Lambert, NEHGS Reference Librarian Learn how newspapers can give you both
specifics of your ancestors lives and clues for other resources in your family history research.

Please make checks payable to Massachusetts Genealogical Council and mail to
PO Box 5393, Dept. AM, Cochituate, MA 01778-5393

The cost, including continental breakfast and cafeteria lunch, is $20 for 2003 members and $30 for
non-members. For more information, please visit http://massgencouncil.home.attbi.com/index.htm for
details, call (781) 209-8861 or email




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Sharon Sergeant
Ancestors and Ephemera
http://GenealogyFair.com
Bring Your Ancestors Home!

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