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May Meeting

May 13, 2006

Early 20th Century Passenger Lists

Horace H. Waters, Speaker

1:30 p.m. John Curtis Free Library, Rt. 139, 534 Hanover Street, Hanover, MA (781) 826-2927

Mr. Waters lecture is "Early 20th Century Passenger Lists", in which he tries to unravel the mysteries of passenger lists. How do you get into the records? What can you expect to find in the records? What ports do we have records for? What is indexed and what is not? The time period covered is from the 1890's to the 1950's. Earlier passenger lists are the subject of another lecture.

Mr. Waters has been working for the National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, MA for over four years. He is a frequent lecturer at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, where his presentations include such basic topics as Census, Naturalization, and Passenger Lists, as well as the local history of Waltham, Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard. His expertise includes New England Maritime History of the 19th and early 20th Century, mid 19th Century tax records, and New England Naturalization Records. He is a 12th generation New Englander with ancestors arriving in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. A member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society and the National Genealogical Society, he has over twenty years experience in genealogical and historical research in New England, New York, Michigan, and Colorado.