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Annual Meeting, 2024
The HHS Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m. at the new Senior Center, located within walking distance of the Tuck Museum, in between the Park and Rec buildings.

There will be a brief business meeting, during which HHS members will follow this agenda:

After the business meeting, there will be a presentation - Finding Your Family Through Neighbor History, with family historian John Cass

Finding Your Family Through Neighbor History

John Cass has been a family historian since the 1980s, researching history in the UK, the west coast, and New England. He has presented at Boston National History Camp in 2023 & 2024.

Genealogical research focuses on following historical evidence about relatives; research about your family is an obvious line of inquiry. But, when a family historian focuses on lineage and then does not put family members in context with their communities or their society, the family history is only diminished in its extent and value.

By exploring a historical person’s motivations, the historical context, and the meaning of the data that is discovered, there will be a better understanding of both who that person was and the meaning of the evidence. In doing so, those very same historical mysteries that drove initial research may be solved. In genealogy, the practice of research should not be reduced to a list of names and dates. Instead, researchers will gain more from adding color and detail into the recorded lives of their ancestors.