Genealogy Month at Memorial Hall
Library, 2012
 Genealogy
Lock-In
Friday, March 2, 2012 from 5:30 - 10 pm
Register for an evening of after-hours
genealogy research with exclusive access
to databases, computers, microfilm, and
the Andover Room. A light dinner will be
served.
$10 fee. Space is limited. Register
online or
by calling 978-623-8401 x31.
 Countdown to the 1940 Census
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 7:00 pm
The United states census release is a
once in a decade occurrence that the
historic and genealogy community await
with great anticipation. The last
publically released census from 1930 was
released in 2002.
The 1940 census, which chronicles the
Great Depression into World War II, will
be released this April. Professional
genealogical researcher Michael Brophy
will discuss trends and statistics in
the census as well as how to use this
resource for genealogy research.
anonymous New England Family, 1800s
oil on cavnas 52 1/8 in. x 72 3/4 in.
(132.4 cm x 184.79 cm)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1947.13
Family Portraits: From Your Collection
and the Addison Gallery of American Art
When:
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., Andover,
MA 01810
Come explore family portraits—yours and
those in the Addison's collection.
How do you read a family portrait? What
information can we discover about family
members and their relationships from
portraits? Bring a family portrait, and
learn from some of the Addison's
portraiture as well.
Space is limited. Register
online or
by calling 978-623-8401 x31.
 An Irish Family History: Poet Kieran
Furey
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:00 pm
Irish poet Kieran Furey draws on his own family history and the tragic stories around the Strokestown estate as told in the Strokestown house’s Irish Famine Museum to explore the conflicts, outcomes, generational changes, and memory of the 1840s famine, many of whose exiles arrived in the cities and towns of New England.
Register
online or by calling calling
978-623-8401 x31.
Sponsored by the
Friends of Memorial
Hall Library.
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