WNYGS March Program: Sifting Through the Cookbooks for Our Female Ancestors with Eleanor O. Brinsko
Sat, Mar 15
|Zoom (Virtual Event)
Program Description: Cooking can bring us back to a particular place, time, conversation, experience, family. Eleanor Brinsko will be looking at the history of the evolution of home cooking and how we can use these recipes, cookbooks, and experiences to help us further our research and presentation.
Time & Location
Mar 15, 2025, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Zoom (Virtual Event)
About the event
10:30 AM Featured Program followed by Q&A
Program Description: There’s something special about cooking that can bring us back to a particular place, time, conversation, experience, family. Eleanor Brinsko will be looking at the history of the evolution of home cooking and how we can use these recipes, cookbooks, and experiences to help us further our genealogical research and family history presentation. Get a head start on this presentation by digging out the family recipes, church cookbooks, and newspaper clippings of recipe entries. Unfortunately, we will not be providing the food; we’ll leave that up to you.
Speaker Bio: Eleanor Brinsko is a genealogist who does Scandinavian-American genealogy by looking at genealogical and social trends on both sides of the Atlantic. Eleanor has given lectures for the Wisconsin Historical Society and public libraries, genealogical societies, and family reunions across the country. She taught a graduate-level genealogy course for the University of…