March 2024 Meeting- Zoom- Kerri Tannenbaum- Researching the New York City Irish

Virtual

Register for Zoom Event HERE Looking for your Irish ancestors in New York City?  This presentation will review specific records in the city's five boroughs that can move your research forward, including passenger manifests, censuses, city directories, newspapers, and some lesser-known resources.  Professional genealogist Kerri Tannenbaum will provide tips, tools, and strategies to find the...

Members Only: A Dozen Things You Can Do With Your Research to Celebrate St Patrick’s Day! with Joe Hunter, TIARA VP

Researching your Irish Ancestors can be challenging. However, the rewards can go far beyond the interesting research findings. The creative use of technology, online databases, free and available software programs, coupled with creative ideas, affords researchers the opportunity to do more than simply locate the land of distant ancestors. For researchers that plan on visiting Ireland,...

April 2024 Meeting- Saving the Stories III by Thomas M Toohey (In person and via Zoom)

Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Rm. G3 415 South St, Waltham, MA, United States

Register for Zoom meeting HERE Register for In Person HERE Every month more more facts become available about our ancestors. These facts are like their skeletons. Family stories about them can add flesh to their bones and give life to their existence. In many families only one or two members remember these stories. These family...

May 2024 Monthly Meeting- Hybrid- Getting Started in Family History Education with Dustin Axe

Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Rm. G3 415 South St, Waltham, MA, United States

**Members Only Meeting** This is a hybrid meeting. Members can join us at Brandeis University as well as Zoom. Dustin will join us via Zoom It can be extremely rewarding for students to learn about themselves and their family history, yet genealogy is a challenging subject to teach and learn. Hear American Ancestors Youth Genealogy...

June 2024 Meeting – Hybrid – Persevere! Finding the Impossible Ancestor, With or Without DNA by Kate Peace

Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Rm. G3 415 South St, Waltham, MA, United States

Register for Zoom meeting Here  Register for In Person Meeting Here Using both record sources and additional resources that many people will not be familiar with, the speaker was able to first trace her great-grandfather's mother in Scotland. With no clues regarding the paternity of her son, the speaker turned to DNA analysis, using Y-DNA data from...

2024 Summer Library Open House

The TIARA Office and Library 121 Boston Post Rd, Sudbury, MA, United States

Come to the Open House to: Get Research help View our unique and rare books on Irish genealogy/history Exchange stories and research with fellow members Enjoy refreshments

TIARA Sharing Our Stories: Write Your Own Family Story. Three Interactive Sessions

Virtual

Three sessions of interactive workshops  Facilitators: 3 TIARA Writing Group Members Judy Barrett, Maureen Kenney, Kathy Sullivan Novices Welcome Goal: Write a family story based on an important memory, research, or oral history.  Method: Using prompts and proven writing process techniques, participants write ONE STORY about Irish ancestor(s) or personal memory.   Space is limited to...

TIARA Sharing Our Stories: Write Your Own Family Story. Three Interactive Sessions

Virtual

Three sessions of interactive workshops  Facilitators: 3 TIARA Writing Group Members Judy Barrett, Maureen Kenney, Kathy Sullivan Novices Welcome Goal: Write a family story based on an important memory, research, or oral history.  Method: Using prompts and proven writing process techniques, participants write ONE STORY about Irish ancestor(s) or personal memory.   Space is limited to...

The Orphan Train Movement: History, Genealogy, Legacy- by Michael Brophy

Weston Public Library 87 School Street, Weston, MA, United States

The Orphan Trains operated between 1854 and 1929, transporting 200,000+ children from New York to the Midwest and beyond. Over two million descendants live on to tell the stories of this uniquely American movement through oral history, genealogy research with ongoing, careful care of the unique records. Registration This meeting is hybrid.  Please register for either in person...

TIARA Library Fall Open House

The TIARA Office and Library 121 Boston Post Rd, Sudbury, MA, United States

TIARA is hosting a Fall Open House Saturday, 7th September 2024 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm following the meeting at the Weston Library