Past CMGS Programs from 2025
January 28, 2025
Tracing Your Bootlegging, Shimmy-Shaking and Repeal-Seeking Ancestors During and After Prohibition
Speaker: Debra Dudek
February 11, 2025
Escape Room – The Case of Lou Little
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
March 25, 2025
ANNUAL DINNER MEETING
How to Research Genealogy In 20 Minutes a Day
Speaker: Susan Navarre – Fitchburg Historical Society
April 2025
I have a Civil War Ancestor: Now What?
Speaker: Brian Rhinehart
May 2025
Postcards From the Past: Bringing Deltiology to Your Genealogy?
Speaker: Michael Cassara
June 2025
Identifying a Plantagenet King: Richard III
Speaker: Bonnie Wade Mucia
July 2025
How History Helps Genealogy Research
Speaker: Lucy Allen – Barre Historical Society
August 2025
Philly Museum of History with a film on historic sites
Speaker: Philip Johnson
September 2025
Meet Mrs. Hamilton
Speaker: Anne Barrett – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
October 2025 – No Meeting
CMGS Members were attending the NERGC conference in Manchester, NH
November 2025
Learnings from NERGC – Sharing new ideas from the conference
CMGS Members
Past CMGS Programs from 2024
January 23, 2024
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Speaker: Sara Campbell
February 27, 2024
Escape Room – The Case of Martha Sleeper – The Gadget Girl
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee– Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
March 26, 2024
ANNUAL DINNER MEETING
Lighthouses of New England and the People Who Kept Them
Speaker: Jeremy D’Entremont
April 23, 2024
Records That Tragedy Leave Behind
Speaker: Gena Philbert-Ortega
May 28, 2024
Have a Computer, Will Document-A Review of Genealogy Software for Windows and Mac
Speaker: Richard Reid
June 25, 2024
Cemetery Projects
CMGS Panel
July 25, 2024
Mixers and Shakers – Tracing Your Saloon, Tavern and Bar Keeping Ancestors Before Prohibition
Speaker: Deborah Dudek
August 27, 2024
The Unlocked Path
Speaker: Janice Robinson Daley
September 24, 2024
History at Play
Speaker: Judy Kalaora
October 22, 2024
Helping You Unearth the Story of Your Family
Speaker: Sara Cochran
November 19, 2024
Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Past CMGS Programs from 2023
January 2023
Genealogical Treasures in Military and VA Pension Files
Speaker: Lori Miller
February 2023
How to Clean the Mess on Your Desk
Speaker: Kelli Bergheimer
March 2023
The Angel Project
Speaker: Kate Kelley
April 2023
Records That Tragedy Leave Behind
Speaker: Gena Philibert-Ortega
May 2023
Have A Computer, Will Document, A Review of Genealogy Software for Windows and Mac
Speaker: Richard Reid
June 2023
Grand Mason Lodge of Massachusetts
Speaker: R.W. Walter H. Hunt
July 25, 2023
The Revolutionary War Murder Conspiracy of Bathsheba Spooner
Speaker: Andrew Noone
August 26, 2023
Genealogy and History Fair
Hope Lodge, Gardner, MA
September 26, 2023
Workshop on CMGS Cemetery Books
CMGS Panel
October 24, 2023
Welcome to the Graveyard Virtual Tour Chronicling Art History and Symbolism of the N.E. Burial Grounds
The Gravestone Girls – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
November 15, 2023
Have a Computer, Will Document-A Review of Genealogy Software for Windows and Mac
Speaker: Richard Reid
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Past CMGS Programs from 2022
January 2022
Gone A Whalin’: Western Mass Crews on Whalers
Speaker: Dennis Picard
February 11, 2022
The Maine-Canada-Ireland Connection – Seeking Rogers’ Roots
Speaker: Carol McCoy
February 28, 2022
Genealogy Escape Room – Donald Featherstone and the Case of the Pink Flamingo
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
March 22, 2022
Paddy on the Railway: Irish Labourers and the Building of the Great Western Railroad
Speaker: Dennis Picard
April 26, 2022
Family Medical History and the Importance for Generations
Speaker: Carol Bosworth
May 24, 2022
Ellis Island-Gateway to a Dream
Seema-Jayne Kenney – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
June 28, 2022
Militia of the Seas: Massachusetts Privateering Records from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
July 26, 2022
Publish On Demand
Speaker: Leslie Ray Sears
August 23, 2022
The Family Search Catalog: A Researcher’s Best Friend
Speaker: Diana Elder
September 27, 2022
Location, Location, Location: Putting Your Ancestors in Their Place
Speaker: Diana Elder
October 25, 2022
Yours for Humanity: Abby (a one woman play about Abby Kelley Foster)
Speaker: Lynne McKenney Lydick – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS
November 15, 2022
Murder, Mayhem and Town Tragedy
Speaker: Liza Alzo
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Past CMGS Programs from 2021
January 26, 2021
How do I Know What I Don’t Know? Fast racking Your Genealogy Research
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee
February 23, 2021
1950 Census: Are You Ready
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee
March 23, 2021
Immigration Regulations & Experience
Speaker: Seema-Jayne Kenney
April 27, 2021
The Family History Guide
Speaker: Bob Taylor
May 25, 2021
From Pilgrims to Pioneers: Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
June 22, 2021
Another Boarder: The Reception of French-Canadians to New England
Speaker: David Vermette
July 27, 2021
Members Sharing with Members
CMGS Members
August 24, 2021
Sanborn Insurance Maps, Census Records, and City Directories
Speaker: Ari Wilkins
September 28, 2021
Irish History II
Speaker: Tom Toohey
October 26, 2021
Huzzah! Researching Your Revolutionary Roots
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
November 16, 2021
Naturalization Records
Speaker: Seema Jayne Kenney
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Past CMGS Programs from 2020
January 28, 2020
Beginning Evernote
Speaker: Lisa Louise Cook
February 25, 2020
The Pierce Mansion in South Gardner
Speaker: Ken Watson
March 24, 2020
Using Historic Maps in your Genealogical Research
Speaker: Sara Campbell
April 28, 2020
Gone a Whalin: Western Mass Crews on Whalers
Speaker: Dennis Picard
May 26, 2020
Researching Your Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Ancestors
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
June 23, 2020
Overlooked Municipal Records (Secrets of my Vault)
Speaker: Sara Campbell
July 28, 2020
Did I Get Everything? Creating a Checklist for Genealogy Research
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee
August 25, 2020
Much More than Ancestry.com & FamilySearch.org
Speaker: Dave Robison
September 22, 2020
Land Ho! Calling all Mayflower Descendants
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
October 27, 2020
Huzzah! There’s a Lineage Society for That!
Speaker: Kathleen Kaldis
November 17, 2020
Timelines: The Straight Line Between You and Your Ancestor
Speaker: Cindy Ingle