Middlesex Chapter Meeting
Filling in the Gaps with US Censuses and City Directories
We will explore how to find your ancestors in the US Federal and State Censuses and City Directories. Look at the information that can be found that may help fill in the gaps in your family tree. If you are having trouble finding your Ancestors in these records, bring your questions to this meeting and if time allows, we will try to help you find them.
Diane Laferriere has been a member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists since 2010. When the Merrimack Valley Chapter was formed and was the Chapter Treasurer until 2021. She has also attended and volunteered at many of the New England Regional Genealogical Conferences, or NERGC (pronounced “nerk”), a gathering of genealogists from all over the U.S. and other countries: three days’ worth of all thing’s genealogy. The next conference will be in 2025 from October 29th through November 1st in Manchester NH.
Diane began researching her family in the late 1970s after a school project to create a family tree could only be completed back to her grandparents. In the beginning her research consisted of looking at the US Federal Census at the National Archives in Waltham on microfilm readers, visiting libraries to look at city directories and writing letters. Today she has subscriptions to most of the online genealogy sites.
This program is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
This meeting will be online via Zoom.