Tracing Genealogy Through the French and Indian Wars

Tracing Genealogy Through the French and Indian Wars

Speaker: Michelle Wilson

The French and Indian Wars (1688-1783), known as the Intercontinental Wars in Quebec, were a series of conflicts across what is today the US/Canadian border involving British, French and Dutch colonials and Native Americans. Of particular interest to American and French-Canadian genealogists are the thousands of persons taken captive from New England frontier villages and force marched or carried to Canada. We will tell the story of the four wars making up these conflicts and how to track the many children and their parents who were caught up as captives, using the Deerfield raid of 1704 as an example.

This program is co-sponsored with the Glenview Public Library.  You can attend in person or by Zoom.

by Zoom: Click Here to Register, a Zoom Link will be sent to you.

in Person: Click Here  (after May 1) to Register, and go to the Community Room.