Events
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
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Telling Lives, Living Histories - Roxbury Oral History Project is an intergenerational oral history project that brings local young adults and Black elders together to share stories, reflections, and lived…
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Ms. Tori from the Pierce House is back for another fun hands-on workshop! For this session, we’ll be making sailors’ valentines, a geometric mosaic made of shells given by whalers and merchant seamen to loved ones when they safely returned…
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Join us for an enlightening and engaging two-part program centered on The Historical Contributions of African American Women of Roxbury, hosted by Hist-oric-aly Cor-rect!
From 3-4 pm, there will be a teens-only gallery…
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Contribute to a public history database and tell Hyde Park’s story! Join The West End Museum at Hyde Park Branch for an interactive community history workshop. Learn to use the crowdsourced history database When and Where in Boston…
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Out of Order, Fortification of Dorchester Heights is a large scale quilt created by Michael Thorpe in response to the historic painting Washington at Dorchester Heights by Emannuel Leutze (1852) from the Library's collection. Both are…
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
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Researching your family history is very possible and it's a lot of fun. In this presentation Carol Clingan will cover getting started with research in Jewish genealogy and the major types of records that exist. She will provide how-tos for…
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Researching your female ancestors can be a difficult task. The largely standard practice of changing their surnames after marriage can make women hard to track, and many historical records focus on men with women being listed only under…
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Professor and author James C. O’Connell discusses his recent nonfiction book, Boston and the Making of a Global City.
O'Connell will explain Greater Boston’s historical rise in the network of competitive global…
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Local filmmaker Roger Hagopian presents his documentary film, Memories Flow Beneath It, From Valley to Quabbin. This 69-minute film traces the displacement of people and the loss of a way of life in the Swift River Valley of western…
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
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Many family history researchers know how useful obituaries published in newspapers can be. But did you know there are a lot of other things in newspapers that can help with your research? In this class we will cover how to access newspapers…
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This virtual talk with Reference Archivist Samuel Edwards from the Massachusetts Archives will cover how to research your Revolutionary War-era ancestors using our collections.
We will cover how to utilize muster rolls on…
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Former exotic dancer Lucy Wightman discusses her 2025 memoir, Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston's Most Famous Stripper.
How did a debutante from Lake Forest, Illinois, end up in Boston's notorious “Combat Zone” and become its most…
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
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In collaboration with the Partnership of Historic Bostons we present a panel of Indigenous speakers to ask how do we reckon with the legacy of King Philip's War today? This event is hybrid and will also be live-streamed.
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Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…
Join other family researchers to discuss interesting family research and stories and to seek suggestions on how to break through some obstacles in your genealogy research. This club, which meets monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month,…