Researching Religious Repositories
August 22, 2024 7:00 pm ET – sponsored by the Elgin Branch
Religious institutions are rich in local and familial historical records. Join Dez Nacario, Archivist for the Diocese of Huron, in a presentation on research services available to genealogists and historians using Anglican archives as an example.
Dez Nacario
Dez Nacario (she/her) is the Archivist for the Anglican Diocese of Huron, situated on the ancestral beaver hunting grounds of the Algonquin, Haudenosaunee and Attawandaran peoples; the traditional and unceded lands of the Anishinaabe Peoples, of Walpole Island, Kettle Point and the Thames, the settled people’s Haudenosaunee Confederacy, at the Grand River and the Thames and the Lenni Lenape Delaware people’s of Moraviantown and Muncey. She holds a Master of Libraries and Information Science from Western University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology/Religious Studies from Mount Allison University. Dez is passionate about diversifying the GLAM world and creating professional opportunities for individuals from historically excluded communities
