Genealogical Society of Vermont

An overview of an upcoming exhibition, describing insight into families provided from art and objects, including genealogical information.

Jamie Franklin is Curator of Collections at the Bennington Museum. He received his B.A. in Art History at University of Washington, and an M.A. from Williams College. Before coming to the Bennington Museum, he worked at Williams College Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Clark Art Institute, and Philadelphia Museum of Art - Center of American Art.

Have you ever tried to find birth parents for someone?  Linda French was able to discover her birth parents and has met her father who is now 93 years old.  Her birth mother had died before Linda was able to find her.  Linda will tell us the process by which she was able to trace her ancestry.

Linda received her B.A. in History from California State University. She has been a Research Librarian for 25 years and for 15 years has been a Volunteer Librarian at the Bennington Family History Center (LDS).

Martin E. Hollick is a reference librarian at the Harvard Law School Library.  He holds an M.S. from Simmons College in Library and Information Science, and an A.B. from Bowdoin College. He lives in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

His articles on genealogy have been published several leading journals. Martin is also the associate editor for the Mayflower Descendant. His latest book is, New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2005. He will have copies available for sale at the meeting.