Presenter: Diane Boumenot

Find your colonial ancestors in the communities of New England with these fifteen strategies that cut through 400 years of changing records. Learn expert practices for accessing New England’s information and building evidence of lives long forgotten. Your early New England roots can come to life with these less-obvious sources and methods.

Diane MacLean Boumenot, CG, is an award-winning genealogist and former editor of Rhode Island Roots, the journal of the Rhode Island Genealogical Society. She received the National Genealogical Society’s Lou D. Szucs Distinguished Service Award in 2023, as well as the Robert M. Sherman Award. Diane serves on the Board for Certification of Genealogists Education Fund and is a past president of the New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Her research focuses on New England, Nova Scotia, and England, and she holds a B.A. in History and English from Wesleyan University.