Lafourche Heritage $ociety, lnc. P.O. BOX 913 THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA 70302-0913 The Lafourche Heritage Society invites you to attend its 34th Annual History and Genealogy Seminar Planned for August 14th The thirty-fourth annual seminar on history and genealogy will be held by the Lafourche Heritage Society on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at the Envie Restaurant and Banquet facility in Thibodaux. The day's activities will begin with registration and coffee at 8:30 a.m., and will close after the last speaker, at 3:00 p.m. The seminar will have two morning sessions, a buffet lunch, and two aftemoon sessions. There will be breaks between sessions for visits to book vendors. Speakers scheduled for this event are Claire Mire Bettag, Richard Condrey, and Nathalie Dajko. Claire Mire Bettag, CG, CGL, a native ofHouma, is a genealogist based in Washington D.C., cer,tifi.ed since 1997. She conducts research in Washington, DC, Louisiana, and France. She earned a B.A. ih'Frêrïch at the Uiiiversity of Southwestem Louisiana and an M.A. in French at Columbia University (Woodrow Wilson Fellow). She spent a year studying at the University of Toulouse in France as a Fulbright Fellow. Her first session will be Civil Law and Concepts and Genealogy. Her second session will be Notarial Records in the Civil Law Tradition. Richard Condrey, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU. His presentation will be on the historical ecology of Louisiana beginning from ca. 1519. In his presentation we will view the Last Natural Delta of the Mississippi River through the eyes of the early scientists as a vast seaward advancing arc stretching from Vermillion Bay's Southwest Pass to the Rigolets; filled with majestic cypress, endless marshes, parakeets and bison, protected by miles of offshore oyster reefs, and teaming with schools of white shrimp. He will end his presentation with his concern associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Nathalie Dajko, PhD is Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, New Orleans in the departrnents of Anthropology and French & Italian. She received her BA in anthropology at UNLV in 2002 and her MA and PhD at Tulane University in 2005 and 2009 respectively, both in linguistic anthropology. Her dissertation was a study of Louisiana French as it is spoken by Cajuns and Indians in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes. Her topic will be "The French language of the Lafourche Basin" The seminar will be attended by book vendors offering history and genealogy selections. The Society will also have its publications available for purchase including the release of Lafourche Country III. Participants and members are invited to bring their family history charts which will be put on display. To pre-register, please send your name and check in the amount of $28 (each participant) to The Lafourche Heritage Society, P.O. 'Box 913, Thibodaux, LA 70302. Only participants who pre-register will be included in the count for a buffet lunch. Same day registration for the seminar will be accepted at the door, but will not include lunch. The deadline to pre-register is August Il, 2010. Book vendors will be welcome at no additional co st; however, these will need to pre-register and reserve a table in advance. For further information, please contact any of the following: Clifton Theriot at 985-448-4621, clifton.theriot@nicholls.edu Patty Whitney at 985-447-7318, pattywhitney@hotmail.com Name(s) to pre-register ________________________________________________ Phone # / email ______________________________________________________