Registration for this cherished community event is now open! Gather your friends and form a team or walk individually with HAWC friends, business partners and community leaders. We need you to raise awareness and funds for HAWC’s lifesaving work. Event details: Sunday, June 4th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Salem Common, Salem, MA There are many ways … Read More
Pride Month flag raising 2023
This event will take place on June 1st at Riley Plaza 12:00pm. Our office intends to be as inclusive as possible, and all are welcome to attend.
Salem’s Remond Family: The Next Generations’ Connections to Newport & Providence
Join Hamilton Hall and Harmony Grove Cemetery for a joint Salem Ancestry Days event on Sunday, April 23 at 4:00PM. This lecture explores the genealogy and legacy of prominent 19th- and 20th-century African-American New England families. Our speakers are Theresa Guzman Stokes and Keith Stokes of the 1696 Heritage Group. The Stokes will together draw connections between descendants of Salem’s Remond family and … Read More
Getting Started in Family History
Learn how to get started with your family history research. Hear about first steps and go-to resources.
Tour Historic St. Peter’s Church
Are you a descendant of Philip English, accused of witchcraft in 1692, whose family tree includes Hawthorne’s and Ingersoll’s? Perhaps your Massachusetts ancestors remained loyal to the English crown during the Revolution, or you descend from a Salem ship captain, enslaved person, or from the great American mathematician and navigator, Nathaniel Bowditch. How was an Anglican Church, whose bell tower … Read More
Salem Ancestry Days Exhibitor Fair
Start your genealogical start on Salem Ancestry Days weekend at First Church. Lectures, maps, tours all in one place. Our Exhibitors Include: Friends of Broad St. Cemetery DAR Timothy Pickering Chapter New England Historic Genealogical Society Massachusetts Society of Genealogy St. Peter’s Church Peabody Essex Museum – Phillips Library Essex Registry of Deeds
Ancestry Days: Visualizing 1692 Salem
Explore 1692 Salem with an Architectural Historian for Salem Ancestry Days. We’ll take a tour of The Daniels House, an original 1667 mansion, to understand their architecture before walking around Salem’s oldest neighborhood to see how echoes of the frontier environment survive today.
Getting Started in Family History
Learn how to get started with your family history research. Hear about first steps and go-to resources.