Bristol Rhode Island Genealogy Club

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Bristol Rhode Island Genealogy Club

A club comprised of members from Bristol, RI, and surrounding towns sharing a common interest in gene

02/07/2026

Today, Saturday, FEBRUARY 7 MEETING CANCELLED due to snow and the Town of Bristol parking ban. See you next month on March 7th!

02/03/2026

Genie Club meeting as scheduled on Saturday, February 7 @ 9 AM. Come join our group discussion about genealogy. Bring your brick walls, share your discoveries in a friendly group ranging from beginners to experienced genealogists. It's all about learning! We meet at the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society at 48 Court Street, Bristol, RI. (Public parking across the street.)

Image is of Irish arriving in Boston circa 1850s. (The Smithsonian)

01/10/2026

Regular Genie Club meeting on Saturday, January 10th -- 9 a.m. at the Society, 48 Court Street, Bristol, RI. We'll be talking about FAN or cluster research.

12/08/2025

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, January 10, 2026. Time and place TBD. We will have a special meeting on researching your Revolutionary War Ancestors as part of our country's 250th celebration all year long. Specifically learning about searching for their pension records which can reveal tons of information about their lives. These same techniques can be used for later wars such as the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

Photo: https://battleofrhodeisland.org/significant-people/

11/08/2025

To all genealogy researchers: Come join us for our next meeting on Saturday, December 6, 2025 -- 9 a.m. at the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society, 48 Court Street, Bristol, RI. Bring your brick walls and maybe we can help you???

10/12/2025

Want to talk about your genealogical research? Or learn more? Or get some help with those brick walls? Yes? Then come join us for our next meeting on Saturday, November 1st at 9 a.m. We meet at the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society.

Here's a photo from one of our members looking for an ancestor in Maine!

09/11/2025

Mark your calendars! The next meeting of the Bristol Genie Club is on Saturday, October 4th -- at 9 a.m. It will be at the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society, 48 Court Street. Bring your questions, share your latest research, show us photos.....we love hearing about what your latest genealogy discovery is.

This photo is of a little cemetery in Pemaquid, Maine, with ancestors buried there whose own ancestors originated in Warren, RI.

08/12/2025

Mark your calendars for the Fall Genie Club meeting on Saturday, September 6th, at 9 a.m.. Meeting will be held at the Bristol Historical & Preservaton Society, 48 Court Street, Bristol. Free and open to the public.

We have special guest, author Cynthia (Cindy) Elder, coming to talk about her research in preparation for her TALES OF THE SEA two-book series: THE JOURNEY BEGINS and THE DRUMBEATS OF WAR. From a genealogy perspective, Cindy will share her extraordinary find of a box of letters written in the mid 19th century which was just casually sitting on a screened-in porch at her in-laws' house in Barrington, RI. The letters were written by her husband's second great-grandparents, James and Ruth (Fish) Jenkins, who lived in West Barnstable on the Cape. James was a sea captain writing home to Ruth before they were married, and then after they were married and Ruth was accompanyng him on his long voyages, Ruth was writing home to her mother. And from there began Cindy's research.

P.S. There was a second box of letters sitting on that porch, too, written (or narrated) by freed slave, Thomas White. To read more about the contents of this box of letters in the Smithsonian Magazine, go to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tattered-pages-discovered-in-storage-reveal-an-enslaved-mans-daring-bid-for-freedom-and-his-second-life-at-sea-180986838/

06/13/2025

Enjoy your summer....travel to visit some cemeteries, take photos. We are taking the summer off to do just that!! See you at our next meeting on Saturday, September 6th, 9 a.m. at the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society, 48 Court Street, Bristol, RI.

Photo is of a family plot at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY.

06/02/2025

Our last Genie Club meeting for the season is on Saturday, June 7th, at 9 a.m. at the Rogers Free Library, 525 Hope Street, Bristol. It will be up in the room on the 3rd floor. Please come join us....we'll chat about our research updates and plot research for the summer.

03/19/2025

Our next "Genie" Club meeting is on Saturday, April 5th at 9 a.m. We'll be meeting again at Rogers Free Library (525 Hope Street in Bristol) -- in the top floor conference room. We love new members so feel free to come join us to learn more about researching your family tree. Beginners are welcome as we have all levels of expertise!

This drawing is of Castle Garden where immigrants came into New York City during the mid to later 1800s before Ellis Island was built. First it was built as a fort, then used as a theater, and by 1855 it was a immigrant processing center. By 1890 it closed for immigrants before Ellis Island opened up in 1892, and later became an acquarium until 1941. Today it stands as a National Monument known as Castle Clinton.

Today you can search Castle Garden records for your family at Family Search for free: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/ny-castle-garden-ellis-island

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48 Court St
Bristol, RI
02809

Website

http://bhpsri.org/

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