Pejepscot Genealogy Society

Carol McCoy will be the featured speaker for the Sunday, November 11th meeting of the Pejepscot Genealogy Society of which she is a member; at 2PM in the Morrell Meeting room of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick.

Dr. McCoy will present “Creative Ways to Solve Genealogy Problems” –  where to look when they are not in the census or vital records. Learn about  creative problem solving through case study seeking to prove the identity of  a person’s GG grandfather from Maine who was not in the census, vital  records, cemetery records, or deeds. Find out ways to track down those  hidden ancestors.

Carol Prescott McCoy, Ph.D. is president of http:www.find-your-roots.com in Brunswick, Maine. She  has been tracing ancestries for over 30 years and is a popular speaker throughout New England. She specializes in New England, especially Maine and in using land and tax records in genealogy.

The monthly meeting of the Pejepscot Genealogy Society is open to the public. There will be a business meeting after Dr. McCoy speaks and light refreshments will be served.

The Pejepscot Genealogy Society's first fall meeting will be on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 2 PM in the Morrell Meeting Room of the Curtis Memorial Library. Our topic of the day will be the plight of 19th century mill workers.

Our guest speaker, Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, Ph.D. is a resident of Alfred, ME. She chairs the Department of History at the University of New England, where she teaches both American culture and women's history courses. For more information on our speaker, visit her website at : http://faculty.une.edu/cas/bdewolfe/

Please come join us for this interesting topic which is near and dear to many families living in and around New England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Have some snacks and mingle with others and possibly meet a distant relative (It has happened!)

FMI call Marie at 449-2323 or John at 833-5430

The next meeting of the Society will be Sunday May 6th. Our guest speaker will be Janet Baribeau of Brunswick who will entertain us with memories from her new book A Bailey Island Girl Remembers.

The program will start at 2pm in the Morrell Meeting Room of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick.  Refreshments will be available before and after the meeting.  The business portion of the meeting will follow the guest speaker.

If you have any questions about this program, or anything related to the Pejepscot Genealogy Society, you can email our president, Brian Bouchard at brian@earlyMaine.org (please put "Pejepscot" in the title to be sure your message makes it through my spam filter)

- Brian