BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.jgsgb.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T095658 CREATED:20210913T171259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T000353Z UID:10000740-1633028400-1633035600@www.jgsgb.org SUMMARY:Held in the Balance: The Trask 250\, with Nicka Sewell-Smith DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Mass Genealogical Council (MGC) and the JGSGB \nIn late 2014\, Nicka Sewel-Smith uncovered one of the biggest finds of her genealogical career. She discovered ancestors that were enslaved by brothers Israel Elliot Trask\, James Lawrence Trask\, Augustus Trask\, and/or William Porter Trask along with their niece Charlotte Pynchon Davis Ventress\, nephew Augustus Trask Welch\, and James Alexander Ventress. In the 1850s\, this Trask family ran a cotton empire in Mississippi and Louisiana\, which was valued at more than $4 million at the time. Yet\, they remained residents of Massachusetts where slavery had been abolished in 1783! \nJoin us to learn how Nicka Sewell-Smith used DNA shared by more than 300 people descended from formerly enslaved ancestors and traditional family history research to unearth this discovery and how a multitude of documents detailing their lives have created a family history project documenting more than 5\,400 people. \nNicka Sewell-Smith is a professional photographer\, speaker\, host\, consultant\, and documentarian with more than 20 years of experience as a genealogist. She has extensive experience in African-ancestored and reverse genealogy. She is an expert in genealogical research in the Northeastern Louisiana area and researching enslaved communities. \nThis presentation is free\, but registration is required! \nClick to Register URL:https://www.jgsgb.org/event/held-in-the-balance-the-trask-250-with-nicka-sewell-smit/ LOCATION:– Zoom Meeting\, Virtual CATEGORIES:2021,Related Events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR