
DearREADERS,
Mr. Myrt and I received the following information about the National Genealogical Society's upcoming annual conference. Since it is to be held in Richmond, Virginia this year, you can bet we will be in attendance. We plan to take time before and after the conference to do research at the Virginia State Library, before heading up to the DC area for National Archives (US) research.
"Registration
will open on Sunday, 1 December 2013, for the National Genealogical
Society’s thirty-sixth annual family history conference, Virginia: The
First Frontier, which will be held 7–10 May 2014 at the Greater Richmond
Convention Center and the Marriott Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia was home to an ever-changing frontier. From Jamestown to
Kentucky its people moved ever forward looking for new frontiers and it
is this spirit that the conference celebrates as we move to new
frontiers in research. The conference will open with Sandra Treadway,
Librarian and Archivist of Virginia, who will address the issues that
research institutions face as they enter the digital frontier and how
they are working to meet the ever-changing needs of their patrons.
Continuing
its goal of providing quality educational opportunities to its
participants, the conference will again feature the Board for
Certification of Genealogists’ Skillbuilding track, which focuses on
research techniques useful to both the beginning and the advanced
researcher. Among the eighteen lectures in the migration track are David
Rencher’s “From Ulster to Virginia and the Carolinas,” Eric Grundset’s
“The Chesapeake and New England: Colonial Connections and Migrations,”
and J. Mark Lowe’s “The Migration Triangle: Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Tennessee.” A two-day German track features lectures on German research
in both the United States and Europe. Single-day tracks focus on DNA,
NARA, military, and African American research and include tracks
sponsored by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the
New England Historic and Genealogical Society. Technology and its
increasing role in research is addressed in a variety of presentations
including a full-day track on ways to use technology to help you share
your family’s story. And, last but not least, for those who have
Virginia ancestors, we promise at least one session every hour of every
day.
To register online, visit the NGS website at http://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/event-registration/ and complete the registration form.
Happy family tree climbing!

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