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BOSTON TEA PARTY SHIPS & MUSEUM LAUNCHES FIRST EVER BOSTON TEA PARTY DESCENDANTS PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AMERICAN ANCESTORS®/NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY AS PART OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE YEAR

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Saturday, March 11, 2023
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BOSTON, March 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It is National Genealogy Day and thanks to groundbreaking research into the lives of the Boston Tea Party participants, descendants of these original patriots will, for the first time ever, be able to join an exclusive lineage society that honors their ancestors. Today the new Boston Tea Party Descendants Program is being launched by the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, dedicated to accurately reliving and representing a key time in history (1773-1775), in partnership with American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society, the nation's first and leading center for family history research. The announcement comes during this 250th anniversary year of the Boston Tea Party, a momentous event that forever changed the course of American history.

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  • "We are thrilled to create this first-ever Boston Tea Party descendant online portal of America's first patriots in partnership with the American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society in this 250th anniversary year of the Boston Tea Party," says Shawn P. Ford, Executive Director for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.
  • "It is our hope to educate, inspire, and make genealogical connections to those who participated in the Boston Tea Party.
  • Applications for membership in the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program will be vetted by full-time professional genealogists at the American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society.
  • The 250th anniversary year will culminate in a grand-scale, live reenactment of the Boston Tea Party on Saturday, December 16, 2023.