Missing our usual hallway meetups at NERGC? Wishing you
could spend an evening over a Sam Adams with your friends, catching up? Want to
start your day at the Dunkin Donuts, sure to spot a few friends in line getting
their iced coffee and donut? Well, we can’t do that, but we
can use technology to give ourselves some break time.
The Demanding Genealogist will host five breakout Zoom meetings during the last month of NERGC. We can say Hi
to each other, talk about how much fun we’re having at NERGC, and relax with
our personal beverage of choice.[1]
We’ll also take a little bit of time to talk with our friends from outside New
England about our regional ways of doing things, with a focus on family
history. Very roughly, each hangout will be divided into one-third social time,
one-third small group breakouts, and one-third answering questions.
The Zoom meetings are limited to 100
people each week. You need to register separately for each one.
|
Date and Time |
Registration
Link |
Topic of the
Week |
Breakout
Rooms |
|
Sunday, May
2, 2021 8 PM Eastern (7 PM Central) (6 PM Mountain) (5 PM Pacific) |
What Makes
New England Research Different? |
CT, RI, MA,
NH, VT, ME |
|
|
Monday,
May 10, 2021 8 PM
Eastern (7 PM Central) (6 PM Mountain) (5 PM Pacific) |
What Records
Were Kept by the Towns? |
Breakout rooms by record types |
|
|
Sunday,
May 16, 2021 8 PM Eastern (7 PM Central) (6 PM Mountain) (5 PM Pacific) |
Major Resources and
Repositories |
Breakout rooms by resource and repository |
|
|
Sunday,
May 23, 2021 8 PM
Eastern (7 PM Central) (6 PM Mountain) (5 PM Pacific) |
Migration
Into, Within, and From New England |
Breakout rooms by migration patterns |
|
|
Tuesday,
June 1, 2021 8 PM
Eastern (7 PM Central) (6 PM Mountain) (5 PM Pacific) |
What
Questions Do We Still Have? |
CT, RI, MA,
NH, VT, ME |
NERGC registration includes all of these
classes and Live Chats. There are additional classes that you
can add to registration if you wish.
If
you are not already registered for NERGC 2021, click here to register.
NOTICE: This effort to efficiently use the resources of NERGC 2021 is unofficial and in no way developed by NERGC 2021.
Photography Credit: Deborah Parks for the US National Archives, February 1971, Motif #1, Rockport, Massachusetts, no known copyright, flickr.com.
[1]
The Demanding Genealogist wishes to thank Denise Cross, cg, for her wonderful suggestion of evening social time. It
immediately struck a chord.
