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Throughout Plymouth County, and no matter your interest, you will find what you are looking for. The events we choose define our lives and feed our souls. The town and county of Plymouth offers events that lead straight to what moves you. Sit back, put up your feet, and plan your itinerary for a time well spent.
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MIKE TERRY, “MAYFLOWER SOCIETY DNA PROJECT.” DNA is a relatively new tool that helps people do genealogical research and helps connect families. The Project Mayflower on Family Tree DNA, familytreedna.com, is the location for the DNA of 1600+ members of the Mayflower Society. Mike Terry, Susan Abanor and Kenneth Whittemore will explain the what, why and...
In this moderated panel on The Private Lives of Public Women in the Gilded Age, Dr. Linda Perkins, Dr. Heidi Ardizzone, and Dr. Kimberly Hamlin will share the accomplishments and struggles of three notable women who lived at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired generations of women activists, writers, and educators to come....
Join us for this fascinating, hour-long virtual panel discussion with three notable Salem witch trials authors. During this discussion historian and archivist Richard Trask, descendant of Mary Esty, Rebecca Nurse, and John Procter, historical fiction author Kathleen Kent, descendant of Martha Carrier, and historian Mary Beth Norton, descendant of Mary Bradbury, will discuss how they...
BETH FINCH MCCARTHY, “WHO LYETH THERE? DIGGING UP COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND ANCESTOR RECORDS.” Researching your early New England family presents many challenges. Events may not have been recorded, or there is no standard for finding the records. You will learn how to place your ancestor in historical context and effectively locate historical records and other essential...
Though the Salem trials of 1692 are today one of the most famous in the Western world, they were far from the largest or deadliest. Nearly two decades before Salem, the Torsåker parish in Sweden was overtaken by a terrible witchcraft panic. In just one day in 1675, 71 people were beheaded and burned at...
