Mark Bowden, Assistant Manager of the Burton Historical Collection will present a program on how genealogists get beyond the names and dates of a pedigree chart and begin researching the local cultural, social, and economic environment in which their ancestors lived. Discover how city directories, chronologies, maps, manuscripts, photographs and more can yield information crucial to creating an interesting and lively family narrative.
The second part of the program:
Robert Gordon, So I Come to America: Detroit Pre-World War I Immigrants – Robert Gordon will present a program on our nation of immigrants and the greatest period of immigration was 1890-1914. In this 24-year period tens of millions of people left their homes in Europe to make new lives in America. Many were young men fleeing the draft as war loomed over Europe; but the majority of them were rural peoples from Eastern Europe whose families, drawn to the U.S. by the economic promise of industrial expansion. This session is a companion to the exhibit on display in the library. Local History Conference- Dearborn Inn. Program is at 10:00 a.m.
There will be a change of location for Michigan in Perspective: The Local History Conference. The event will be held at the Dearborn Inn, Dearborn, Michigan, March 19 - 20, 2010. In order to feature a variety of locations around the Detroit metropolitan area and allow for the conference's growth, the Michigan in Perspective Planning Committee has decided to rotate the annual Local History Conference around the three major counties of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb and the City of Detroit.
For more information on the conference or accommodations in Dearborn check
http://www.h-net.org/~hsm/meetings.php
NOTE: The DSGR Sponsored speakers are on FRIDAY at 1:15 PM.
Conference brochures and more detailed information was mailed to all DSGR members, January, 2010.
Questions?? Call Mary Lou Duncan (313) 884-0039 or
Catherine Phillips (248) 541-0403 or email cpsrch@aol.com |