Demystifying the Big 3 Free Sites for Genealogists in Mass
When:
Monday, Aug 07, 2023 7:00p -
8:00p
Monday, Aug 07, 2023 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Good for Groups, History, Lectures & Conferences, Virtual
Event website:
https://bit.ly/TheBig3DigitalSites
Join Linda B. MacIver for Demystifying the 3 Big Free Digital Sites for genealogists in Massachusetts: The Internet Archive and Beyond! on Monday, August 7 at 7 PM to visit (or revisit) a whole truckload of freely available materials on Internet Archive, Digital Commonwealth, and the Digital Public Library of America. Whether you are grumbling at the ever-increasing costs of commercial databases or unsure of whether you are using the free site to their fullest potential, MacIver will walk through the Big 3--and a few more!-- to aid in your genealogical research discoveries.
Linda B. MacIver is an educator, lecturer, librarian, and genealogy researcher. She recently retired from a 27- year career at the Boston Public Library where she inaugurated the BPL patron genealogy classes, teaching the multi-week beginners’ course for five years. She organized two popular seasons of the Local and Family History series and developed the Intermediate Genealogy Summer Lecture series. Linda is the former Secretary and Civil Records Director for Federal Records for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG) and the Essex (Mass.) Society of Genealogists (ESOG.) She serves as the New England Representative for the Essex (England) Record Office. Linda has a BA in History from the University of New Hampshire, an MEd from Boston University and earned her MLIS at Simmons College. She was the 2018 recipient of the Richard S. Lackey Scholarship to the Genealogical Institute for Federal Records (GEN-FED) and the inaugural recipient of the 2019 Senior at the Center of Excellence Award sponsored by Xerox Corporation and the City of Boston.
Please Register for the Zoom here.
NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.
This program is in collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library.
