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Meetings 2025
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Date: January 28, 2025 – VIRTUAL MEETING
Speaker: Deborah Dudek – Topic – “Tracing Your Bootlegging, Shimmy-Shaking and Repeal-Seeking Ancestors During and After Prohibition” (a follow-up from the July 2024 meeting) – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LUAIqIE_QEOQlvB2Q3comA
Our ancestor’s need for a good drink can provide new details and narratives for your genealogy research
Debra M. Dudek is Head of Adult and Teen Services at the Fountaindale Public Library District in Bolingbrook, IL. She holds a post graduate certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Ms. Dudek is the Book Review Editor of the Illinois State Genealogical Society, an executive board member of the
Illinois State Historical Society, website coordinator for the Chicago Chapter NSDAR, and is the author of the World War I Research Guide: Tracing American Military and Non-Combatant Ancestors.
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Date: February11, 2025 -Hope Lodge – VIRTUAL MEETING – Genealogy Escape Room
Leominster Public Library in partnership with CMGS
Speaker: Thomas MacEntee – Topic – “The Case of Lou Little”
Accidentally, you are locked in at the Leominster Public Library after hours. It seems that you fell asleep in a cubicle while researching the history of college football in the United States. Your current research subject is Leominster native Luigi Piccolo – better known as Lou Little – famed college football coach during the 1920s and 1930s. Can you figure out Little’s real birth name and his connection with the Heisman Trophy?
You MUST complete your research on Lou Little by answering a set of questions related to the genealogy and family history of Lou Little. USE THIS FORM AT https://forms.gle/grs3BLrombmexRQH6
Sharpen those research skills by researching NOW and then participate in this unique genealogy education event!
NOTE: You are allowed to use ANY online sites for GENEALOGY research; most clues can be found on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com and FamilySearch at https://www.familysearch.com. And if you “cheat” by simply using Google to find information, you are only cheating yourself out of an amazing story of an amazing man!
Register for the Zoom reveal here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DYdP73wBQuSrtxnS6ugWfQ
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Date: March 25, 2025 -Hope Lodge – ANNUAL DINNER MEETING – HYBRID MEETING
Hope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA – 6:00 pm Dinner – 7:00 pm Presentation
Speaker: Susan Navarre – Fitchburg Historical Society
Meeting Link – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jVoKvrNmTSayiq0nS7p_ZA
Menu: Tossed green salad, Oven roasted BBQ Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Dinner Rolls, Roasted Carrots, Cake, Various beverages – Cost $12. per person
RVSP on or before March 20, 2025 – Send checks to CMGS, PO Box 811, Westminster ,MA 01473 OR PayPal at www.cmgso.org remember to include your names with your reservation on PayPal – Top Right Menu under Membership > Payments
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Date: April, 22, 2025 -Hope Lodge – HYBRID MEETING
Hope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA – 7:00 pm Presentation
Speaker: Brian Rhinehart – Topic: I Have a Civil War Ancestor – Now What?
Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6Z7IaWMaSBuBqLKeK5vXRg