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AMERICAN-FRENCH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO PRESENT FREE WORKSHOP ON TRACING FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS
April 28, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Anyone searching for French-Canadian ancestors should attend a free workshop featuring tips about how to find them. The presentation will be held on Sunday, April 28 at1:30 pm at the American-French Genealogical Society, 78 Earle Street in Woonsocket.
Sandra Goodwin, a former teacher and founder of Maple Stars and Stripes:Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast, will share tips and tricks that might make it easier to research your French Canadian family here in America as well as to trace them back in Quebec. Sandra’s podcasts discuss ways to move around in French-language records, especially if you’re not a native French speaker, and will review different record groups, repositories, history, geography, culture, and methodology particular to French-Canadian genealogy.
Seating is limited. Reservations may be made at www.afgs.org and clicking on the education link at the top of the home page.
