39th Annual Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank, CA In June 2008, NEHGS headed west to the 39th annual Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank, CA. The three-day event proved to be a terrific show, gaving NEHGS a chance to say hello to some old friends and make many new ones too. Staff genealogist Chris Child lectured to a packed house on researching New York and New England ancestors and NEHGS President and CEO Brenton Simons gave an insightful talk on researching witchcraft in New England. Chris and Gary Boyd Roberts also hosted a Sunday breakfast talk on presidential genealogy.
Quebec Research Tour June 15—22, 2008, twenty-four NEHGS members and four staff took part in the Society’s inaugural research tour to Montreal, Quebec. Throughout the week, members enjoyed guided research at two of Montreal’s top repositories, the Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française (SGCF) and the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BAnQ). In addition to NEHGS genealogists Pauline Cusson and Michael Leclerc, both repositories offered bilingual staff and volunteers to assist members with research and record translation. To help provide historical and cultural context for researching in Quebec, members and staff took a mid-week field trip to Drummondville, Quebec to visit the Village Québécois d'Antan, a living history site comprised of seventy structures highlighting the period of 1810-1910.
Annual Benefit Gala Dinner 2008 NEHGS celebrated its Annual Benefit Dinner on April 27, 2008 to support its “Bringing Your Heritage Home" Campaign.
Over 185 guests attended the reception and dinner at the Algonquin Club on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The evening’s theme was "Re-examining History: Using Genealogy to Understand Our Past," with Cornell University professor, historian, Mary Beth Norton, as the guest speaker. Ms. Norton is also an award-winning author whose most recent book is the bestseller, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.
Bringing Your Heritage Home, April 22, 2007 On April 22, 2007, NEHGS hosted its first annual fundraising gala to benefit the “Bringing your Heritage Home” campaign. Held at the venerable Algonquin Club in Boston’s Back Bay, the event included guest speaker acclaimed historian and Brandeis professor David Hackett Fischer, who won the Pulitzer-Prize in 2005 for his book, “Washington’s Crossing.”
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