The Brue Family Learning Center

Join us for our Preservation Roadshow, where you'll learn practical tips from our experts to help you preserve your family's photographs, documents, and heirlooms. Participants will have the opportunity to receive personalized preservation advice for one item from their own collection.

Discover key records for tracing your Connecticut ancestors! In this online lecture, we will discuss probate, land, and court records for the Nutmeg state. You’ll learn about the types of records available, how they can advance your family history research, and where to access them.

The Brim-DeForest Library at American Ancestors serves as a center for research, learning, and discovery, where history comes to life through archival collections and expert guidance. Learn more about the collections, services, and other library offerings during a brief tour.

This lecture will provide you with historical context, records, and research strategies for identifying and learning more about your loyalist ancestors.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss our upcoming research tours for the year ahead to locations including Indiana, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Nova Scotia, Salt Lake City, and American Ancestors' own library in Boston!

Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will provide an overview of colonial lineage societies—such as the General Society of Colonial Wars, Colonial Dames of America, and Order of Founders and Patriots of America. He will discuss how to identify appropriate qualifying ancestors, evaluate evidence, and build a well-supported application.

Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) is famous for his premier collection of American decorative arts and the creation of the museum at Winterthur, his beautiful country estate in Delaware, but how did it all come about? This lecture explores how Mr. du Pont formed his first American collection at Chestertown House, his summer residence in Southhampton, New York, and then how, a few years later, he transformed Winterthur into an enormous house filled with an exceptionally important collection of historic art and architecture.

Puritans in the 21st Century, a day-long symposium hosted by six of New England’s leading historical institutions, makes the case for 17th century Puritans. Do they still matter today? A stellar collection of Puritan and other scholars argues they do—that now, in the 21st century, understanding the Puritans and their legacy is more important than ever.

With Francis J. Bremer, Holly Brewer, John Coffey, Neal Dugre, David D. Hall, Meredith Neuman, Daniel K. Richter, Lori Rogers-Stokes, Abram Van Engen, and Adrian Chastain Weimer