The Boston area contains dozens of archives that are open to the public for research. The University of Massachusetts Boston houses archival collections that are goldmines for family and neighborhood historians, including records from nineteenth-century social welfare organizations, mortuary records from the Massachusetts Catholic Association of Foresters 1880 – 1940, and the Barbara Kramer “Saturday Evening Girls” collection, which offers information about the North End young women of the early 1900s who helped create the highly valued “Paul Revere pottery” style. UMass Archivist Joanne Riley shares examples from these collections and will provide pointers for gaining access to the wealth of information preserved at other local archives.