Historical newspapers are treasure troves of valuable information, not just about major historical figures and events, but also about ordinary people who lived in the past. Join Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage, for a deep dive into the vast collection of newspapers on MyHeritage and learn what you can find in them about your ancestors.r

 

 

 

Mayflower Society Virtual Program Schedule for 2021, 2022, and 2023

 

 

 

See attached file for the FREE webinars throughout 2024.

 

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The attached file here lists all of the free webinars, or you can look through the web site.

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This presentation discusses why a person might want to work with more digital research, and gives suggestions as to how to organize and think about your digital genealogy within the wider range of your genealogy paperwork and research. It discusses the pros and cons of making suggestions as to how organization can help move research forward, particularly for brickwall problems.
 
Sara Gredler is a genealogist, architectural historian, and historian with over 20 years of genealogical research experience. Sara took over the family history research from her parents, also both historians, as a school project as a teenager. She currently holds a Certified Genealogist® credential and an Accredited Genealogist® credential in the MidAtlantic region. Sara worked at AncestryProGenealogists between 2018 and 2023.  She served as the President of the Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society and is also the chair of its DNA Special Interest Group.  She also serves as a Director on the Board of the National Genealogical Society. She has spoken at many conferences at the state and national level
 
Sara is a native Virginian with copious family roots north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Her current projects include a descendant study of all the descendants of Jonathan Richardson of Livonia, New York, and the Patrick Mahan family of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, though she deviates from these projects quite a bit to study other families.

 

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Writing the Biography of Frederick Douglass and the Bailey/Douglass Family: Scenes from the Archives”

 

 

 

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Jonathan Lane is an historian with the Massachusetts Historical Society and the coordinator for Revolution 250, an organization dedicated to commemorating the American Revolutionary War. He will discuss how the Mayflower passengers and their descendants were so impactful and influential in how the American Revolution ultimately took place.

 

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Dependence on tobacco shaped the social, economic, and physical development of the five Southern Maryland counties for more than 300 years, spanning from their founding until its demise by the end of the 20th century. The Southern Maryland Tobacco Barn Survey is a two-year project aimed at identifying and documenting the dwindling numbers of the region’s surviving pre-1870 air-cured tobacco barns. The survey is a partnership between the University of Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust, supported by an award to the university from the MHT Non-Capital Grant Fund. Dr. Dennis Pogue and Chris Bryan, project staff working for the University, will share their findings and offer new insights into both the past and the future of these iconic features of the cultural landscape.

 

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Tyler Anbinder with Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York

 

 

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Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier with Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

 

 

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Whether a researcher has been collecting information for a long time or has suddenly inherited someone else’s research, they will need to: 1.) Organize it, 2.) Decide what is valuable and what isn’t, 3.) Make it available to others through some type of publication, and 4.) Provide for the collection’s survival.  This lecture will encourage organization (both paper and computer) and preservation of the materials; analysis and writing the family history using standard numbering systems including NGSQ and the Register systems. Evidence analysis and source citations will be discussed as will the use of computer programs as tools for organization and writing. Discussion also includes the use of artifacts and photographs in the family history and a genealogical will or codicil for the disposal of both the material and paper collections.
 
Speaker:  Elissa Scalise Powell
Board-certified since 1995, Elissa Scalise Powell, CG®, CGLSM, is a western Pennsylvania researcher and co-director of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP). She also is the course coordinator for “Genealogy as a Profession” at the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) in Athens, Georgia, author of two chapters in the 2018 Professional Genealogy book, and 2017 APG Professional Achievement Award winner.

 

Members will be sent the Zoom meeting ID by email or may go to the member’s only page to obtain it. If you are a visitor and not a member yet - click here to obtain the Zoom meeting ID.

 

Members will be sent the Zoom meeting ID by email or may go to the member’s only page to obtain it. If you are a visitor and not a member yet - click here to obtain the Zoom meeting ID.
 

 

As 2024 is an election year, Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, an historian of the Presidency, political culture, and the government—looks at how our second President set the stage for many later traditions and trends.  

 

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Despite the opinion of Alexander Hamilton that the Electoral College was the only part of the Constitution to escape criticism, few clauses in the Constitution have been subjected to more consistent and withering disapproval than the Electoral College. Thomas Weaver will explore the people and events that shaped America’s unique form in choosing a chief executive, telling the story through the eyes of people who lived it—including stories that involve murders, duels, shootouts, corruption, greed, teenage elopement, and a secret midnight ride in the back of a mail carriage to save the Constitution.

 

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The sailing of the Mayflower was not just a foundational American event—it was also the culmination of a radical English religious movement. This is the story of that underground church, one of prison and killings, spies and subterfuge, theological controversy and sexual scandal, and the invention of religious freedom.

 

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