"The Great Wagon Road and the Trek Westward" will be presented by Dr. William Lindsey, noted genealogist, publisher and educator, at the Tri-County Genealogical Society meeting Sunday, March 14. The meeting will be at the genealogy library in Marvell, AR at 2 p.m. The primary focus of the presentation will be to provide clues for those whose ancestral research is "stuck" in some region west of Pennsylvania or Virginia, but who have strong reason to believe their ancestors came from one of those states, with roots reaching back to the colonial period. The presentation will focus in particular on families that made the trek down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania to Virginia and the Carolinas, and then migrated west. The lecture will suggest a number of approaches to bridge the gap between the period/area in which researchers may be stuck, and colonial Pennsylvania/Virginia. The point of the lecture will not be to provide an exhaustive overview of genealogical research in Pennsylvania and Virginia, but to assist researchers who are beyond the beginning stage, as they try to push backwards to Virginia and Pennsylvania. Dr. Lindsey is a Little Rock native who grew up both in Little Rock and El Dorado. He has a B. A. in English from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M. A. in English from Tulane, and an M. A. and Ph. D. in theology from the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto. In addition to having published a number of genealogical articles, he is the author of many scholarly articles in his academic field. Dr. Lindsey has over 30 years of genealogical research experience, with a primary focus on Southern families, as well as his one 'immigrant' line, his Irish great-grandmother and her family. Guests are welcome. Contact wridge@hnb.com for directions, if needed.