Our meeting on February 1st will feature a team of speakers, Sara Campbell and Shari Strahan, with a presentation entitled “Did Gramma Have a Filling Station? Married Women’s Businesses.”

Shari and Sara have been research partners for a variety of projects in Western Mass since solidifying their common interest while working as census takers in 2010. They are relentless in finding the story behind the document and have brought many forgotten families to light with their research. Sara has been active in the Polish Genealogical Society of Mass, while Shari’s ethnic specialty is in French Canadian genealogy, as well as the families of Historic Deerfield, where she lives.

Sara Campbell is a lecturer and educator in Western Massachusetts where she has been active in the genealogical community for 25 years. Her background as a civil engineer sometimes gives her a unique perspective on her research, she blogs about history at http://rememberingancestors.blogspot.com/ and will be presenting this talk at the NERGC 2017 Conference in Springfield, MA.