Presented virtually by Linda MacIver

You haven't done that "reasonably exhaustive search" unless you include more than the usual federal records. It really is a myth that our families weren't important enough to be in records preserved at the National Archives!

Linda B. MacIver is an educator, lecturer, librarian and genealogy researcher.  She retired from a 27 year career at the Boston Public Library Research Library where she inaugurated the BPL patron genealogy classes. She also organized two extremely popular seasons of the Local and Family History lecture series and developed the Intermediate Genealogy Summer Lecture series.   Linda is the past Secretary and Civil Records Director for Federal Records for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council. She serves as the New England Representative for the Essex (England!) Record Office.  Linda has a BA in History from the University of New Hampshire, an MEd from Boston University and earned her MSLIS at Simmons College.  

Linda was the 2018 recipient of the Richard S. Lackey Scholarship to the Genealogical Institute for Federal Records (GEN-FED) and the inaugural recipient of the 2019 Senior at the Center of Excellence Award sponsored by Xerox Corporation and the City of Boston.

10:30–11:00 am: Short business meeting and open discussion
11:00 am: Program begins

Please pre-register at https://tinyurl.com/MXDec2026

This program is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information contact: mxvp@msoginc.org