Portsmouth Public Library: Genealogy Workshop

Portsmouth NH

29 January, 2022

4:47 AM

Description

Press release from the Portsmouth Public Library: January 28, 2022 FEB202022SUN Online Sunday, February 20, 20222:00pm - 4:00pm Program Type: Workshop, GenealogyAge Group: Adult Program Description Details Presented by the library's Special Collections staff and members of the Ranger Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), these events are free, open to the public, and appropriate for all levels of interest and experience. All levels will learn something new!Join us as genealogy and cultural anthropology specialist Teresa Vega presents on the rise and decline of Hangroot, a little known and long-lost Greenwich, Connecticut community of Native and African Americans that preceded the 1640 founding of the town. You will also hear about Teresa's extended family and the fight to save their "Colored Cemetery" in the Byram section of Greenwich. Teresa will discuss the terms "colored" and "paper genocide" as they relate to both Native American and Afro-Indigenous people and she'll highlight the importance of Native and African American cemeteries as testaments to our ancestors' physical presence in this world.Registration is required. Open to all levels. Please register to receive the Zoom link. This press release was produced by the Portsmouth Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.