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Friday, May 18 7pm
at Boston College Fulton Hall Room 511
Irish Estate Records for Genealogists
R. Andrew Pierce has been a professional genealogist since 1984, He formerly worked at New England Historic Genealogical Society. Andy specializes in Irish, New England, and American Indian research.
Andrew has transcribed the Sexton estate papers and donated the resulting information to the County Clare library. His publications include The Stones Speak: Irish Place Names From Inscriptions in Boston's Mount Calvary Cemetery (NEHGS, 2000); and The Wampanoag Genealogical History of Martha's Vineyard (GPC, 2003).
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Saturday, June 9 11:00am at the Lawrence Heritage State Park at One Jackson Street, Lawrence, MA. 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence. Thousands of people, many of them female, and many of them recent immigrants, walked out of the mills to protest short pay. The three-month strike made an impact all over the United States. The strike was settled on March 14, 1912 on terms generally favorable to the workers. Susan Steele and Virginia Wright will give a presentation concerning Foresters who were involved in the strike. Attendees will then take a tour of the Lawrence Heritage Park and see an exhibit at the textile mill about the strike.
Except July and August, TIARA usually meets either the second Friday evening of every month,
or on the following Saturday morning at various locations.
On Friday nights, the meetings are held in Room 511 of Fulton Hall
on the campus of Boston College, Commonwealth Avenue
(Route 30), Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
(See
directions to Boston College and
map of campus.)
The meetings are free and open to the public, but membership is
encouraged. The programs presented at the meetings vary, but may include general topics such as:
how to do genealogical research; Irish history; resources for Irish
research in the New England, Dublin, and Belfast area; and how to locate
ancestors in Maritime Canada, Northern Ireland, or the Republic of Ireland.
- For information about upcoming programs, write to:
- The Irish Ancestral Research Association
2120 Commonwealth Ave.
Auburndale, Massachusetts
02466-1909
To receive meeting announcements by email, send a
request to president@tiara.ie.
Meeting cancellations are given to
Boston's Channel 7 or 56 by 1:00 PM in case of severe weather. Although they do not
broadcast the cancellation on the television, you can sign up at
Channel 7's website WHDH to receive an email with cancellation
information. They also have a cellphone text messaging service for which you
can sign up to be notified if there is a cancellation. See their website for more information.
And of course, check TIARA's own web site!
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