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Historical Records Forum: Press Advisory



For Immediate Release: The Fifth Annual Community Forum on Historical
Records, Documenting Underdocumented Populations & Communities - plenary
speaker, session participants & topics.

William Francis Galvin
Secretary of the Commonwealth

January 22, 2002

HISTORICAL RECORDS FORUM

Documenting Underdocumented Populations & Communities


The Fifth Annual Community Forum on Historical Records, Documenting
Underdocumented Populations & Communities, will meet on Friday, June 7, 2002
at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater. Secretary of the Commonwealth
William Francis Galvin and the Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory
Board are co-sponsors of the forum.

Documenting Underdocumented Populations & Communities will build upon the
strategies, activities, and accomplishments of the previous forums:
Advocating Massachusetts History, Building Alliances, Documenting Our
Heritage and Telling Our Stories. The forum will present a program to foster
a dialogue among scholars, archivists, historians, genealogists, librarians,
educators and citizens to promote the adequate identification, preservation
and access to Massachusetts' unique heritage, with a concentration on
populations and communities that are currently underdocumented and
under-represented.

The plenary speaker is Thomas O'Connor, Professor of History Emeritus, at
Boston College; author of The Hub: Boston Past and Present; The Boston
Irish: A Political History; Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield;
Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People; and South Boston,
My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood. Dr. O'Connor will speak
on his experience and research methodology as a scholar of immigrant and
community history, with attention to future historians and the availability
of historical documentation for research.

Forum session topics include: methodology & research, federal & state
records, education & teaching, churches & religious communities, exhibits &
programs, documentation projects, preservation issues, and cultural
awareness. Session participants include Arab Americans, Gypsies, Armenians,
Cape Verdeans, Portuguese, Brazilians, Chinese, Southeast Asians, Latinos,
African Americans, Somalians, Native Americans, Swedes and Lithuanians.

Forum participants will have ample opportunities to meet representatives of
the organizations cosponsoring the forum, as well as their colleagues and
neighbors in the historical records community. We look forward to seeing you
at the Fifth Annual Community Forum on Historical Records, Documenting
Underdocumented Populations & Communities, where together we will explore
the many different ways of identifying, preserving and presenting the
collective memory of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

For more information please visit the MHRAB homepage at
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcaac/aacintro.htm or contact Bill Milhomme,
at 617-727-2816  william.milhomme@sec.state.ma.us

Bill Milhomme, Field Archivist
Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02135
617.727.2816 x 257

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