Theme: Hearing Women's Voices in a Male-Dominated World, Featured Speaker, Jane E. Wilcox.

David Ouimette, CG, CGL, BCG Trustee, "Squeezing Every Drop Out of Polish Parish Registers," event co-sponsored by the Chicopee Public Library.

Melissa Barker, "Preserving Your Ancestor's Textiles and Handmade Treasures."

Lori Landers-Carvalho, Esq., "Introduction to Probate & Family Court Records and Their Genealogical Uses."

Lisa Cooper, "A Forgotten Land: Growing Up in the Jewish Pale." Admission is free for members.

Kathleen Kaldis, "Huzzah! There's a Lineage Society for That!"

Event is free, and limited to society members. Presentations by Richard Bell, author of STOLEN: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, and Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA, "DNA Done? Now Find Those 20th & 21st Century Relative Connections." Registration information will be in the member section of the website.

Jonathan Brent, "YIVO’s Rediscovered Archives in Vilna and New York;" and Spotlight Talk: Elliot Matz, "Bringing Jewish Life to Lithuania’s “Sturbridge Village”