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MSOG, Inc.
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Ashland, MA 01721-0215 |
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Saturday, December 13
French-Canadian Patriots (Middlesex)
10:15 am to 12:30 pm Virtual only via Zoom
Janine Penfield Presents French-Canadian Patriots
Janine will speak about several topics:
- French-Canadian migration to New England;
- A Short History of French-Canadian involvement in the American Revolution;
- How to join The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), especially focusing on your French-Canadian Patriot ancestor.
10:15 AM EST Business Meeting
10:30 AM EST Socializing
11:00 AM EST Presentation
Janine LaFleur Penfield is a genealogist and active DAR member. Janine graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Art History. She holds the Genealogical Research Certificate from the Boston University Genealogical Research Program. Janine has completed the DAR Genealogical Education Program, courses 1 through 8.
This program is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact: mxvp@msoginc.org
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Saturday, December 20
Preserving and Passing Down Your Genealogical Legacy (Bristol)
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Attend in Person or Virtually via Zoom
Presented In-person by Kevin Desforges
This two-part presentation will cover two subjects closely related: Tools to Help Your Life's Genealogical Work Survive into the Future and Ancestor Photographs and Facial Recognition AI. After a lifetime of passionate research and compiling your family history, there comes a time when you consider who in the future will appreciate, benefit, and hopefully cherish your work and even build upon it. Let's consider a few tools to help your life's genealogical work survive into the future. The second part will be about how Facial Recognition AI offers a powerful tool to help identify your ancestors in other peoples' photographs.
Kevin Desforges brings together past experiences in programming, data science, database management, and dynamic web development. He worked as a professional programmer and data scientist in the military, in finance, and in health care for such notable organizations as the New York Stock Exchange (NYC), FINRA (NYC), Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA (Boston), and Research Triangle Institute (Cary, NC / Waltham, MA). He attended Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH), Bristol Community College (Fall River, MA), and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He served four years as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (San Antonio, TX) and proceeded to earn a continuing Ed degree in Small Business Entrepreneurship from the Borough of Manhattan Community College (NYC).
In 2006, Kevin began to focus his technical skills in the area of genealogy and the preservation of family legacy by starting Visual Ancestor ( www.visualancestor.com), an elite online library of ancestor photographs, after having been inspired by the antique community in Warren, Rhode Island. In 2022, he co-founded a tech company called Echodify ( www.echodify.com) which specializes in passing on family legacies to future generations. Currently, he continues to pursue his passion for preserving ancestor photographs bringing the subject matter into the realm of modern, AI-driven technology such as facial recognition.
SOMERSET PUBLIC LIBRARY
1464 County Street
Somerset, MA 02726
Business Meeting 11:00-11:30 am
Member Sharing 11:30-11:55 am
Presentation Begins at Noon.
This program is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information contact: bristol@msoginc.org
Schedule of Events Available at: https://msoginc.org
Those who wish to attend virtually, can pre-register at https://tinyurl.com/BristolDec25 |
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Saturday, January 3, 2026
Navigating the Records From The War of 1812 (Worcester)
9:30 am to 11:30 am Worcester: Virtual
Brian Rhinehart presents;
Navigating the Records from The War of 1812
From bounty land to pensions, there are no shortage of genealogical records for soldiers from The War of 1812. Learn why these records were created, how to make sense of them, and what those records can contain for your ancestors.
About Brian Rhinehart:
Brian Rhinehart is an historian and genealogist who provides on site research and record retrieval at the National Archives in Washington DC, focusing primarily on 19th century military records (Civil War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War) and federal land records (bounty land, homestead land, etc). He is open to other projects aside from these, as long as the records can be accessed at the National Archives in Washington DC.
9:30 AM EST Socializing
9:45 AM EST Business meeting
10:00 AM EST Presentation
This program is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
Land Ownership and Transfer in New England, 1600s-1850 (Middlesex)
10:00 am to 12:30 pm Virtual only via Zoom
Diane Gravel presents Land Ownership and Transfer in New England, 1600s-1850
Tracing land ownership is often the key to solving challenging genealogical problems. The laws and practices governing land distribution and transfer changed dramatically over the years and should be understood for an effective search. Explore
the proprietors of the earliest settlements to the evolution of dower rights, navigating the abundance of available records in the New England states.
Diane Florence Gravel, CG®, is the President of the NH Society of Genealogists. She currently serves on the Program Committee and chairs the Society's NERGC Committee. She also served as co-editor of New Hampshire Families in 1790. She has lectured at NGS, GRIP and SLIG. She previously served on APG’s Board of Directors, chaired its Chapter Review Committee, served as president of its New England Chapter, and was awarded APG’s Grahame T. Smallwood Jr. Award of Merit.
10:15 am ET Business Meeting
10:30 am ET Socializing
Presentation begins at 11:00 am ET
This program is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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