What: "Case Studies Continued"
When: Saturday, May 4th at 10:30 - noon
Where: Vermont Genealogy Library (In-Person Class)
Anyone who has researched their American French-Canadian heritage back to Canada knows how original names have been changed. Sometimes the trail gets obscured by not recognizing "dit" name variants. At other times, both a first and last name has been corrupted, garbled, or loosely translated. In many other instances, ancestral knowledge was simply lost.
Suspecting that one of his U. S. History students had a French-Canadian name, Michael Dwyer once asked what the family's ethnic background was. Answer: "Farmer." Neither the student nor anyone in his family had the faintest idea of their roots back to the pioneers of New France. In this presentation, Dwyer draws on forty-years-worth of case studies of French names lost in Vermont and the research steps and resources he took to rediscover them. He will draw upon new research studies since his last presentation.
Michael Dwyer, a member of the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society and past presenter, is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (https://fasg.org/). He has served as editor of Vermont Genealogy and has published dozens of scholarly articles and enjoys sharing stories from his forty years of experience.
The class will start at 10:30 in our library's classroom and the class fee is $10.
Register at: https://www.vtgenlib.org/2024-spring-class-list/
Genetic Genealogy SIG
Our monthly meeting will occur on Wednesday, May 8th, at 6:30 PM by Zoom. If you have not attended before, write to us at education@vtgenlib.org and we'll add you to the list.
For past attendees, we'll send you a link to the Zoom meeting and an agenda next week.