Many people recognize the term "two boat Irish" for Irish immigrations - first through Canada and then into the US. There are many other ethnic groups that follow this pattern, even if they didn't come to the US on boats. There are also lots of circular patterns (just to make our research complicated!) where a root family landed on either the US or Canadian shores first, followed by various branches moving back and forth. It was not all "westward ho!" and even some of those westward folks turned around and came back. We will feature demonstrations of demographic and mapping software, as well as dense reference volumes on transportation systems for mariner and trade routes (more than ships lists!), early road, river and canal routes, railroad and steamship routes.

11:00 am Kay Sheldon of Brookfield, MA presents "Quebec to Central Massachusetts and Connecticut Before the Automobile", focussing on the migrations that increased so dramatically in the mid-1800s, including a case study of one family that migrated from Quebec to Auburn, MA. Kay Sheldon is a professional genealogist, an experienced researcher and speaker in these migration patterns.

1:15 pm Henry Scannell of the Boston Public Library will speak about the 19^th and 20^th century steamship lines, ships passenger list contents and locations, Shipping News publications and Maritimes migration patterns. In addition to being a specialist in the microtext department of the BPL, Henry's own family has followed these migration paths.

2:30 pm Ronald Dale Karr of Pepperell, MA will talk about railroad history in the Boston States migrations, drawing on his wife's family Boston States migration, his New England rail line and turnpike books and other research in migration patterns for his University of Massachusetts Lowell courses. Additional background information and books can be found at http://www.branchlinepress.com

Post-1901 Canadian Family Tree Pruned in Perpetuity http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/Census.htm Details at http://globalgenealogy.com/gazce35.htm

The Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) at http://sshsa.org/index.html and The Marine Museum at Fall River at http://www.marinemuseum.org will have some of their many valuable reference materials available for purchase at the fair.

Marine Museum at Fall River also has on-line info about the Fall River line, the Andrea Doria and Titanic, as well as good reference texts in their bookstore, links to the Big Mamie site at http://web.meganet.net/jack/mamie.html where you will also find links to the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum at http://web.meganet.net/jack/old_col.html The Marine Museum gift shop at http://www.marinemuseum.org/store includes these great reference texts: Night Boat to New England , Sail Tall Ships! Eastern Steamship, Lighthouses of New England, Floating Palaces, Seafarers of Somerset

 We may be able to provide video tapes of the program speakers. We need feedback on the number of interested people. If you are not able to attend and are interested in purchasing program videos, handouts and bibliographies, please fill out and send a reply form at http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BSreply.htm

Sharon Howland will provide lookup access to several bookcases in her immense collection of Washington County, ME and Charlotte County, NB records - including the first two books in her Picton Press series of Washington County research aids - Calais, Maine Vital Records Prior to 1892 (1998) and Vital Records of Alexander, Washington County, Maine (1999)

Loyalist researcher and author Paul J Bunnell, F.A.C.G., U.E. will be with us for Q&A with many of his own research texts available for purchase - eg The New Loyalist Index, Vol. 1, 2, 3 (Vol. 4 in the works); Life of A Haunted House (The Barnstable House of Barnstable, Massachusetts); Cemetery Inscriptions of The Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1600-1900; Acadian & Cajun Cooking & Home Remedies; Updated (Revised) edition of The Research Guide to Loyalist Ancestors; Revised edition of "Thunder Over New England, Benjamin Bonnell, The Loyalist", and "Holy Smokes! I’ve Got A Loyalist In My Locker" Visit his website at http://members.theglobe.com/loyalists/index.htm

 Many CD's and reference volumes will be available for lookups including recent Acadian and Seafarer publications, LDS Vital Records Index of North America and British Isles, Ancestry Reference Library, Social Security Death Index, ANIMAP US, New England town maps and gazeteers, more than 10 years of YANKEE magazine genealogy queries, genealogy publisher brochures.

Each state and province will have an information booth with reference resources and folks to answer questions about research in those areas.

Deb Hill, founder of the Pallante Center for Italian Research, will make the following resources available : Italians to America series, Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby, Volumes 1-10, Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York, 1880-1897; complete set of Italian maps from Our Heritage to reference or order; COMUNES_OF_ITALY, All Things Italian" magazine for Italian genealogy and culture reference set and subscription forms; samples of POINT, "Pursuing Our Italian Surnames Together" magazine for Italian genealogy; Italian genealogy self help guidebooks and handouts.

The genealogy fair will include beginners "how to", look-up resources and queries from Canadians who have submitted information through Canadian newspapers. Participants may also submit queries to be sent to Canadian newspapers and posted on Internet genealogy sites. General admission is $5.00.

Canadian queries may include pictures, video and voice tapes to provide a real multi-media resource from our Canadian cousins even if they are not on the Internet. Please, review the newspapers and genealogy columns listed at http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BostonStatesindex.htm and notify me if you would like postings to others.

Send in your own "Wanted Posters" on brightly colored 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and see if you can attract a cousin!

 T-shirt design at http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BST.htm - to order email ssergeant@usa.net

Directions: Take Route 20, then turn on Moody Street at the Waltham Common, drive down across the railroad tracks and the Charles River where you will see the converted mill on your left. Take next the left at the lights on Pine Street and then left into Municipal Parking lot. More directions and map.

Walk over the river footbridge towards the smokestack. River views are great!

If you belong to a group, such as seniors or historical/genealogy societies that have special needs, please email me at ssergeant@usa.net Handicapped access and parking facilities are quite good, but we would like to coordinate any special needs for groups before hand.

The Waltham Federal Archives, will be also open on Saturday Oct 2 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. (Microfilm research only). There are often many more folks than microfilm readers (about 40), so if you can go very early in the morning you will have a much better chance. The Archives are also open Monday through Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. More info at http://www.nara.gov/regional/boston.html#public Our speaker schedule at the Charles River museum will begin at 11 am.

Public Internet facilities are available next door to the Charles River museum. Boston States background info can be found at http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BostonStatesindex.htm

Welcome to the Charles River Museum of Industry!

There are old cars and steam engines.

There's an amphitheatre, mezzanine, lounge and function room.

Waltham has several public Internet access locations, including one next door to the Charles River Museum, but the real opportunity for local participants is to meet each other or make contact with their non-Internet Canadian cousins. Eatery choices are very broad in the area and within walking distance, you may bring your own lunches or order out through the Takeout Taxi.

Details for the archiving of the regular mail inquiries and recordings will be updated for future reference. General Internet discussions may be addressed to boston-states-l@rootsweb.com Year round Research trip tips are available via subscription to the research-trip-l@rootsweb.com mailing list and/or searching the list archives. Instructions for each are given at http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BostonStatesindex.htm

Victorian rooms with antiques (also cable) have double, king and twin beds at $95 per couple. It is a lovely old home with a beautiful yard. They do NOT serve breakfast, but it is about a 5 minute drive to several options for meals as well as from Rts 128/95, the museum or the archives. There is NO handicapped access, however, so if folks have special needs, I may be able to find alternative locations. 1888 Guest Home 326 Lexington Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-893-1819

If you will be here for the weekend don't forget the Boston Public Library has Sunday hours in October! CENTRAL LIBRARY 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02117 Tel: 617-536-5400 General Library & Research Library: Monday-Thursday 9-9, Friday-Saturday 9-5, Sunday 1-5 --(Sunday hours: October through May only) http://www.bpl.org/WWW/socsci/genealogy.html

Some small town libraries may also have Sunday hours. http://mlin.lib.ma.us/flash3.html

If you would like to organize a group of researchers to meet for dinner on Friday, Saturday or Sunday evenings, let me know. ssergeant@usa.net Come join us! If you have particular questions, email ssergeant@usa.net

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Sharon Sergeant, ssergeant@usa.net Rootsweb Sponsor; Webmaster for The Boston States Migration Page, Boston States Migration Route, Immigration Workshop and Genealogy Fair page, FamilyQuilt and Family Migrate Forums, Varnum Genealogy site http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/BostonStatesindex.htm List manager for BOSTON-STATES-L-request@rootsweb.com and RESEARCH-TRIP-L-request@rootsweb.com ; Member of New England Historic Genealogical Society

Sharon Howland, Shwkrp@aol.com Co-editor of WKRP (Washington/Charlotte Kounty Records Preservation) newsletter, serving the Washington County ME and Charlotte County, NB area; currently under contract with Picton Press to do a series of genealogy research aids concerning Washington County, ME; author of Calais, Maine Vital Records Prior to 1892 (1998) and Vital Records of Alexander, Washington County, Maine (1999); has spoken at the Maine Genealogical Society meetings; member of many historical and/or genealogical societies, including New Brunswick Genealogical Society; Washington County, Maine Genealogical Society; New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Please direct inquiries and replies to Sharon Sergeant 48 Lake Street, Waltham, MA 02451; email ssergeant@usa.net ; phone 781-893-6142