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The Irish Ancestral Research Association
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Robert Johnson-Lally |
Robert Johnson-Lally is the Archivist and Records Manager at the Archdiocese of Boston Archives in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Robert spoke of the holdings at the Archives, the history of record-keeping in the Catholic Church in Massachusetts, and how to access the records. Genealogy researchers are welcome, but since space is very limited, reservations must be made in advance. The Archives do not hold a copy of every sacramental record: often the individual parish churches hold those records. It is important to know the parish your ancestor lived in, particularly in Boston, where there were at one time 60 different parishes! Check the Archdiocese web site for contact information and a list of parish records held at the archives.
Connie Reik, M.S.L., M.A., has been a reference librarian (for history, political science, economics and other related social science fields) and Government Publications Coordinator at Tisch Library at Tufts University, for almost 20 years. She teaches as many as 40 library instruction sessions a year, teaching students how to do research in history and other social science fields. She has a B.A. in History, British Studies and Medieval Studies, an M.A. in Medieval Studies and a Masters of Science in Librarianship. She has been working on her family history since college when she took a mini-course in genealogy. She has written a series of articles for NEHGS's New England Ancestors in 2006-2007. She is Vice President of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and a member of APG, the Genealogical Speakers Guild, the American Library Association/Reference and Services Association/History Committee and Government Documents Round Table/Rare and Endangered Publications Committee, and many state and local genealogical and historical societies.
Connie explianed how to use Federal publications to research World War II veterans. Using her father as a case study, Connie discussed the resources you can use to uncover your veteran's story. Some of the publications that have genealogical and historical information include campaign and unit histories of all the armed forces, accounts of African-Americans and women in the armed services, campaign histories, and autobiographies.
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