Submitting your photos

Since launching the project, we've contacted and spoken with many members of our community, requesting photographs of important events in Boston Filipinos history. We've asked that if you would like to be included in our upcoming book, please jot down an outline of your family's history. Note that for this portion of the project, we are particularly interested in the generation that arrived post-1965 until the 1986 People's Power Revolution. We will treat the succeeding generation of post-1986 in another work.

1. Who in your family was the first to immigrate to the Boston area? When?
2. What was you/your family's reason for moving here?
3. From where in the Philippines (or other place) did you/your family emigrate?
4. Did you attend school here? If so, where and when?
5. Where/when did you meet your spouse?
6. When/where did you settle?
7. Where did/do you work?
8. What do you consider the most important events in our community during the time period between 1965-ca. 1986?

CHOOSE 5 TO 10 PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR FAMILY from the time you arrived until the late-1980s. Especially important are visible Boston or New England landmarks, but send us whatever you think is important. These will be scanned so that the originals are not lost. The caption will read "Photo courtesy of the _____ Family."

Please contact us if you have any questions mary@bostonfilipinos.com, grace@bostonfilipinos.com

Launching the project

For many years, decades now actually, several members of our community have expressed the need for a written history of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in Massachusetts. No one can forget the importance of this community before and during the People's Power Revolution, and meeting, and for some, spending time with, the Aquinos.

I was recently asked by a Filipino American woman from New Jersey, "Where are all the Filipinos around here?" Even though we are spread out all over the state and all over New England, Filipino Americans do have a presence here, and it is our project to write a history of "Boston" Filipinos. Though most of us live in the greater Boston area, Boston has often served as a meeting place for organizations (groups of medical professionals), a place where many of us went to college and met Filipinos from outside of Massachusetts, and a place where many of us work.

We ask participation from as many people as possible, and will over the next year, invite you to submit your personal and family histories in a variety of media (writing, audio recording, video recording, photographs, etc.). We are serious about accomplishing this project, and are interested in your story. We are also committed connecting these personal histories with the larger history of Filipinos in the United States.

Please check the site for updates on how to submit your story.

Salamat po!