The 2021 Fall Seminar – Here at Last!
by Jim Thornhill
Chief Genealogist David Lambert will be presenting our Fall Seminar for 2021. He has been with the New England Historic Genealogical Society for almost 20 years and researching in New England for even longer.
David was originally scheduled to be with us for our Fall Seminar in 2020, just in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Massachusetts. You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men! Fortunately, we were able to reschedule David to be here this year, to help us celebrate the 401st anniversary. Better late than never!
Since he lives 1800 miles away in Boston, some of you may not be familiar with this talented researcher. David has authored many works, including the NGS research in the States Series for Massachusetts and articles for American Ancestors, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The Mayflower Descendant, and many more. David has spoken internationally on New England research, Native American and African American genealogy in New England, and research in the colonial military and the British Isles.
David will first cover colonization during the colonial period of America prior to the Revolutionary War, giving us an overview of resources available to find our ancestors that arrived in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Then we will drill down on New England resources, discovering the details of probate, land, and court records for the region.
For those of us who had ancestors who arrived during this time, this seminar will be a great resource. Since records of this early time were often organized like they were in Europe, it requires a new set of skills to find these records. Join us at this seminar as we use a hash mark on an early census to discover your ancestors in wills and on probates, in court ordered jury duty and road maintenance, and how your ancestor inherited the land where they lived.
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