Lisa Klemens will give a talk on her Dossenbach family on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Central Library of Rochester Public Library. It will be in the Kate Gleason Auditorium at 1 pm. In 1911–1912, Rochester conductor Hermann Dossenbach and his family spent a year in Europe, studying the world’s foremost conductors and musicians. This …
Below is a Zoom recording of a talk about the Holland Land Purchase. In 1792-3 Dutch investors bought the whole of western NY to be sold in much smaller lots. This talk is given by Ryan Duffy, Executive Director at the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia, NY. That museum was originally used as office …
This Tuesday, Glenn Galbraith will give a talk about his great-great grandfather Albert R. Stone. He was Rochester’s first newspaper staff photographer and a pioneering photojournalist. Glenn will discuss his family lineage and the story of how a collection of thousands of glass plates was saved by his grandmother. It inspired Glenn to re-photograph images …
Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct 25th there is a free set of genealogy talks by the US National Archives. Just go to this web page to view those talks. They start at 10 a.m. (eastern time) and continue until 4 p.m. If you miss the live broadcast, the talks will be available to view the next day …