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Next Meeting

The 1940 Census
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Boston College Fulton Hall

Michael Brophy will give a talk about the 1940 US census, which is scheduled to be released to the public on April 2, 2012. The 1940 Census will not have a name index when it opens. In order to locate someone, you will need to know his or her address and the Census enumeration district in which that address was located.

Upcoming Speakers

Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 100 Newbury St., Boston, MA

Two talks will be given in the morning, then you may spend the rest of the day researching at NEHGS. There will be a $10 fee for this event, to cover the cost of breakfast. Marie Daly will speak on Bantry Bay to Derry Quay: Irish Geography for Genealogists. Kieran Furey, poet and writer, will speak on Roscommon and the famine.

Friday, April 13 7pm at Boston College Fulton Hall Room 511 will be genealogist Nancy Levin on Castle Garden, The Barge Office, and Manhattan’s Pier: Immigration Through the Port of New York

Except July and August, TIARA usually meets either the second Friday evening of every month, or on the following Saturday morning at various locations.
On Friday nights, the meetings are held in Room 511 of Fulton Hall on the campus of Boston College, Commonwealth Avenue (Route 30), Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
(See directions to Boston College and map of campus.) The meetings are free and open to the public, but membership is encouraged.

The programs presented at the meetings vary, but may include general topics such as: how to do genealogical research; Irish history; resources for Irish research in the New England, Dublin, and Belfast area; and how to locate ancestors in Maritime Canada, Northern Ireland, or the Republic of Ireland.

For information about upcoming programs, write to:: The Irish Ancestral Research Association
2120 Commonwealth Ave.
Auburndale, Massachusetts
02466-1909

To receive meeting announcements by email, send a request to president@tiara.ie.

Meeting Cancellation Notices

Meeting cancellations are given to Boston's Channel 7 or 56 by 1:00 PM in case of severe weather. Although they do not broadcast the cancellation on the television, you can sign up at Channel 7's website WHDH to receive an email with cancellation information. They also have a cellphone text messaging service for which you can sign up to be notified if there is a cancellation. See their website for more information.

And of course, check TIARA's own web site!

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