NERGC 2023: MISSING BRANCHES ARE NOT THE END OF THE LINE

As anyone who has been at genealogy for a while knows, it becomes a real “man-hunt” sometimes. After 20 years of digging up tiny details of her own Irish ancestors and countless dead ends for clients, it was not a big leap to volunteering at New Hampshire’s Cold Case Unit. Genealogists are all about cold cases. Milli's banquet presentation at NERGC will briefly outline what indexing a homicide is all about. She will profile two related homicides out of Manchester in the 1990’s, a time when the drug culture had dominated the residential neighborhoods filled with apartment buildings, small bars, and cheap motels. She was still a classroom teacher at the time in Londonderry, an affluent town just south of Manchester, whose kids seeking a wild side gravitated to the happening part of the “big” city. It wasn’t until later that she realized one of her former students was wrapped up in the seedy existence of prostitution and cocaine. Meanwhile, in Nashua, a woman who was to beco...