Available on the big screen in the Library's Function Room and Via Zoom.  Presented by genealogist Linda B. MacIver.  As you grumble about the ever-increasing costs of the commercial databases, do you sometimes admit to yourself that you don’t value free sites as much as you should? Learn about the three major free sites for genealogists and few of Linda's favorites as well.

Linda B. MacIver is an educator, lecturer, librarian and genealogy researcher and a native of Manchester, NH, Central High Class of ’64 and UNH Class of ’68 (is great!). She recently retired from a 27- year career at the Boston Public Library where she inaugurated the BPL patron genealogy classes. She taught the multi-week beginners’ genealogy course, organized two extremely popular seasons of the Local and Family History series and developed the Intermediate Genealogy Summer Lecture series. Linda is past Secretary and Civil Records Director for Federal Records for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG) and the Essex (MA) Society of Genealogists (ESOG.) She serves as the New England Representative for the Essex (England!) Record Office. Linda has a BA in History from the University of New Hampshire, an MEd from Boston University and earned her MSLIS at Simmons College.