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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Last chance to register online for #NERGC2025 —deadline Oct. 17!

Join us at #NERGC2025 Oct. 29–Nov. 1 in Manchester, NH, for 70+ sessions, expert speakers, research consultations, and more. Great for beginners and advanced researchers alike.
🎟️ Learn more: www.nergc.org

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Oct 4

Join us at #NERGC2025 Oct. 29–Nov. 1 in Manchester, NH, for 70+ sessions, expert speakers, research consultations, and more. Great for beginners and advanced researchers alike.

Online registration ends on October 17th.

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#Genealogy #GenealogyConference #FamilyHistory

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join us at #NERGC2025 Oct. 29–Nov. 1 in Manchester, NH, for 70+ sessions, expert speakers, research consultations, and more. Great for beginners and advanced researchers alike.

Early bird registration ends on Sept 13.

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#Genealogy #GenealogyConference #FamilyHistory

NERGC 2025 Registration hosted by Whova

2025-10-29, Manchester, NH

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Aug 20

Chip Gagnon's website is a "must-read" for anyone with ancestors in the Upper St. John River Valley.

www.upperstjohn.com

#Genealogy #French-CanadianGenealogy

The Upper St.John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A history of the communities and people

www.upperstjohn.com

Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Jun 8

📣 Registration is OPEN for NERGC 2025!
Join us Oct. 29–Nov. 1 in Manchester, NH, for 70+ sessions, expert speakers, research consultations, and more. Great for beginners and advanced researchers alike.
👉 www.nergc.org
#NERGC2025 #GenealogyConference #FamilyHistory

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · May 28

Registration for #NERGC2025 is now open! The conference will be held in October 2025 at the Double Tree Hotel, Manchester, NH. Visit www.nergc.org for all the details and links.

#Genealogy #NERGC

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join #ACGS on May 17th for our 2025 Spring Conference: A Focused View on the Founders of New France.

Click the link below to view the full schedule, learn more about our speakers, and secure your spot today!
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#Genealogy #French-CanadianGenealogy #QuebecGenealogy

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Apr 9

For those who are interested, Yale did indeed record my American Revolution lecture course -- lecture by lecture -- and post it online, where the entire course is available for free:

oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Mar 21

The latest issue of the #NERGC2025 E-Zine is now available at nergc.org/e-zines/ It's packed with exclusive content that will give you a sneek peek into what awaits you at this fall's New England Regional Genealogical Conference in Manchester, NH.

#Genealogy #NERGC

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join us on May 17 for the ACGS Spring Conference - a virtual event featuring three excellent speakers! Registration is now open, and we can't wait to see you there.

Click the email link below for all the details and links to register.

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#ACGS #Genealogy #FrenchCanadianGenealogy

Mid-March 2025 Newsletter

Email from American-Canadian Genealogical Society You don't want to miss this. Visit Our Website! Donate to Digitization Fund Dear ACGS, Join ACGS for its Spring 2025 Conference A Focused View on

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Gail Dever @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social · Mar 3

Latest release of indexes for Alberta births, marriages and deaths available to search online - Genealogy à la carte

The Provincial Archives of Alberta has added indexes for 1904 births, 1949 marriages and 1974 deaths that are newly available this year. The indexes provide a person’s name, location of the birth, mar...

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Bryna O'Sullivan @charteroakgen.bsky.social · Mar 2

State level copies of the federal census from 1850 to 1880 for #Connecticut are available on FamilySearch, thanks to the Connecticut State Library. For more information: libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/census. #genealogy

LibGuides Home: Census Records & City Directories: Census Information on Individuals

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Bryna O'Sullivan @charteroakgen.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is a great discussion of effectively working with #French language historic records. #genealogy #translation

Paleography à la Française | Unwritten Histories

Note From Andrea: Today we have another special post by Stephanie Pettigrew! Enjoy! When I first started doing my research, the biggest problem I encountered was simply deciphering my texts. As many o...

www.unwrittenhistories.com

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 7

Downtown Providence flooded from the storm surge. Thankfully, she was home by then.

Photo credit: Providence Journal.

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 7

The bus never came, so she and a friend started walking home and were able to hitch a ride part of the way home.

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 7

My mother-in-law had finished classes for the day at RI College of Education and was waiting in downtown Providence for the bus home to Cranston. Folks at the bus stop noticed it was getting windy and had no idea what was coming.

Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · Feb 7

#FamilyHistory #genealogy
Want to experience what it was like to live in a time where we didn't have modern weather forecasting?

Want to know what it is like when you're just going about your business but a hurricane shows up unexpectedly?

Watch this film, via PBS.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

The Hurricane of '38 | American Experience | PBS

Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 5

Join us at the 18th New England Regional Genealogical Conference in Manchester, NH from Oct. 29 through Nov. 1, 2025. Catch up on the latest updates in the current issue of our e-zine: nergc.org/wp-content/u...
#Genealogy #NERGC2025

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 2

Join #ACGS for its Winter 2025 Webinar, "Gene-ology: How We Understand Genetic Disorders Through Genealogy," with Alexis L. Peters on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 4 p.m. ET. For more information, click the link below.

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#Genealogy #French-Canadian

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Feb 2

"Thanks to advances in forensic science and investigative genetic genealogy, researchers say they have finally uncovered the story behind the remains, tracing them back to a family with links to Quebec more than 200 years ago."

#Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy

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Decades-long mystery solved: Skull found in New Hampshire linked to child of Quebec family

New Jersey researchers have uncovered the story behind a human skull found in New Hampshire and traced to a Quebec family in the 19th century.

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Kenneth Marks @marksology.bsky.social · Jan 14

Free Online #Genealogy Website of the Day

The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is an electronic historical research and reference tool. It presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and changes in the size, shape, and location of every U. S. county.

https://buff.ly/4aewkrN

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Dec 29

Join #ACGS for its Winter 2025 Webinar, "Gene-ology: How We Understand Genetic Disorders Through Genealogy" with Alexis L. Peters on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 4 pm ET. For more information, click the link below.
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#Genealogy #French-Canadian

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International Society of Genetic Genealogy @isogg.bsky.social · Jan 10

TIME magazine on the Netflix series, “The Breakthrough” -
“The turning point in the Linköping case came when genealogist Peter Sjölund joined the investigation. By analyzing the DNA evidence, Sjölund traced the killer’s ancestry.” #dna #isogg #netflix #thebreakthrough
time.com/7205773/the-...

The True Story Behind Netflix's Swedish True Crime Drama 'The Breakthrough'

The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.

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Judy G. Russell @legalgen.bsky.social · Jan 9

It's a good day when The Legal Genealogist finds a new collection of public domain images... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/09/n...

New public domain images!

The Public Domain Image Archive launches It's always a good day when The Legal Genealogist comes across a new source of public domain images. These are, after all, by definition, images that are free ...

www.legalgenealogist.com

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Dec 31

If you're using Ancestry, it's under the Acadian Drouin Collection.
www.ancestry.com/search/colle...

In the 1940s the Institut Généalogique Drouin began microfilming records pertaining to French Canadians throughout French Canada and America. Consequently, this filmed set of records has become known as the Drouin Collection.

www.ancestry.com

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Sandra L. Duffy @sandralduffy.bsky.social · Dec 29

Join #ACGS for its Winter 2025 Webinar, "Gene-ology: How We Understand Genetic Disorders Through Genealogy" with Alexis L. Peters on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 4 pm ET. For more information, click the link below.
conta.cc/49Jinlc

#Genealogy #French-Canadian

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