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From: Sharon Sergeant <>
Subject: [MAWORCES] MGC seminar registrations
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:06:28 -0800 (PST)


Please call 781-209-8861 or email if you have not yet sent your
registration in for the March 29 annual meeting and seminar at Regis College in Weston.

There are now at least 18 bills pending that affect vital records in the Massachusetts legislature
for the 2003.

If you cannot attend the March 29 meeting, you can join MGC and get the newsletter updates!




MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL COUNCIL
The Massachusetts Genealogical Council acts as a frontline advocate to the
genealogical community, monitoring legislation relating to vital records and working to ensure the
public's right to access.

ANNUAL MEETING AND SEMINAR
"Beyond Vital Records", Alumnae Hall, Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA
Saturday, March 29, 2003

8:00 to 9:00 Registration Desk, Vendor Booths and Continental Breakfast (included) in Upper
Student Union foyer
9:00 to 10:00 Annual Meeting with Update on Public Records Issues and Legislation, led by Bernie
Couming, President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council in Upper Student Union Lounge

10:00 to 10:15 Break and Vendor Booths
10:15 to 11:15 FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK: RECORDS RESOURCES AND ISSUES
IN MASSACHUSETTS TOWN AND CITIES by Peter Koutoujian, retired Waltham MA City Clerk Learn about
other town and city records in addition to the birth, marriage and death records, as well as
the issues that that town clerks have had to deal during the rapid growth of genealogy research
requests.

11:15 to 11:30 Break and Vendor Booths
11:30 to 12:30 USING PHOTOGRAPHS TO GATHER ORAL HISTORY: STIRRING MEMORIES FOR
INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS by Ruth Thomasian, Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, Watertown,
MA An overview of how to help collaborate with others to identify photographs and collect oral
histories especially helpful for refugee populations or other situations when vital
records sources have been destroyed.

12:30 to 1:30 Lunch (included) in Upper Student Union cafeteria, Vendor Booths
in the in Upper Student Union foyer
1:30 to 2:30 GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATIONS FOR RECORDS PRESERVATION : WASHINGTON
COUNTY MAINE RECORDS PRESERVATION FUND MODEL by Sharon Howland, Grantor and Trustee of the
Washington County, Maine Records Preservation Fund Learn how local people can collaborate
to preserve deteriorating records and those that have never been copied through simple and
cost effective methods - providing backup in the case of government budget cuts, fires and
floods. http://hometown.aol.com/shwkrp/shwkrp.html

2:30 to 2:45 Break
2:45 to 3:45 READ BETWEEN THE LINES: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
by David Allen Lambert, NEHGS Reference Librarian Learn how newspapers can
give you both specifics of your ancestors' lives and clues for other resources in your
family history research.

Please make checks payable to Massachusetts Genealogical Council and mail to
PO Box 5393, Dept. AM, Cochituate, MA 01778-5393

The cost, including continental breakfast and cafeteria lunch, is $20 for 2003
members and $30 for non-members. For more information, please visit
http://massgencouncil.home.attbi.com/index.htm for details, call (781) 209-8861 or email





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Sharon Sergeant
Ancestors and Ephemera
http://GenealogyFair.com
Bring Your Ancestors Home!

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