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Presentation: Steeped in Secrecy

The Boston Tea Party, 250 Years Later

Claire Evans and genealogist Debra Dudek discuss the political problems tea presented in history and share how to trace participants in the Boston Tea Party.

From the presenters: Claire Evans is an author, former journalist, attorney and college lecturer who started her love of most things British as she and her mother watched countless Britcoms on PBS. She studied abroad in London and, against the odds, married a Brit she met in Peoria, Illinois. They lived in England for a number of years. Her business, Tea with Claire, grew from friends asking for travel advice. Her memoir, "High Tea and the Low Down," is the true story of what it's like to marry a witty Englishman and move to Britain.

Debra M. Dudek is head of adult and teen services at the Fountaindale Public Library District in Bolingbrook, Illinois. She holds a post graduate certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Dudek is the book review editor of the Illinois State Genealogical Society, an executive board member of the Illinois State Historical Society, website coordinator for the Chicago Chapter NSDAR, and is the author of the World War I research guide "Tracing American Military and Non-Combatant Ancestors."

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