Jim, Glad for the reminder for me to post back to the DEED-USERS-GROUP about next week's workshop. In real life Michael John Neill is a mathematics instructor at Carl Sandburg College (a two-year community college) in Galesburg, Illinois. He is developing a mid-west to national reputation as a genealogy and technology speaker. During his college's spring break, he conducts genealogy programs/classes at the college sometimes in March of every year. He has his own web page, root dig something. You can find it by doing a web search under his name. It gives his list of topics and more about him and his own genealogy research. So far as the DEEDMAPPER workshop and the genealogy conference are concerned, the DEEDMAPPER class may have one or two seats left in it. If your are interested call the college first thing Monday morning. As of Wednesday the 16th there were 18 registered with two seats left. I had one e-mail this morning from an interested party. Not sure if anyone else had registered on Thursday for these seats are not. Lunch is included in the price. Not sure what will be for lunch yet, but the college food service manager assures me that it will be something from the college food service line and not just a salad sandwich and a bag of chips. Think he mentioned maybe catfish. He can also fix a veggies plate, etc for those on a special diet or if you don't eat meat. But we need to know ahead of time, at least early that morning for any special requests. There are plenty of seats left for the regular conference where Mr. Neill will be giving four additional sessions, Immigrants from Europe to the Midwest, WAR I and II Draft Records, and two on internet site use, the last one including all kinds of maps on and off line. We had 40 registered on Wednesday for the regular conference. Hopefully we will be getting more people this next week. It is a more than excellent conference for the price even if I did organize it myself along with another adjunct instructor at the college. College food service manager has promised some really excellent food this year, not the usual box lunch with soggy sandwich, chips, etc. type lunch that you get at a lot of conferences/seminars. Friday night will be extra nice with buffet and real cloth napkins and tablecloths in red, white and blue. Really a bargin for the regular conference of $120.00 and the computer software workshop of $55.00. If anyone is interested I can e-mail you a registration form in MSWORD. Would also like to have more information on the POWELL DNA Group mention in Jim's signature line. I am interested a William Powell and his wife, Amey _?_ you have a child death recorded in the St. Paul's Parish Register of Stafford County, Virginia, c. 1715. My Powell line daughters out when their daughter married Anthony Buckner Thomas as recorded in the same published register in 1755. The son-in-law dies as Anthony Buckner in Halifax County, Virginia, with a will in 1780 where he leaves his daughter Winney Edmunds a number of pounds of goose feathers. Winney Buckner had married John Edmunds/Edmonds/Edmons before 1776 when my ancestor, James, was born. The whole tribe of Edmonds, from Francis Edmunds and his wife, Rachel_?_, had all migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia, c. 1786. The LDS information on this William Powell and Amy _?_ has to be wrong or else William was a bigamist with a wife and family in two states at the same time. Vivian Cates, Rt. #2 Box 52-A, Alto, Texas 75925-9607 1-936-858-3801 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Barrett [mailto:parino@flash.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:10 PM To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [DMU] LUFKIN TX 7/24/03 ALL-DAY DEEDMAPPER WORKSHOP - Michael John Neill Does anyone know anything about Michael John Neill? Jim Barrett Bedford, TX parino@flash.net Barrett Surname DNA Project Powell Surname DNA Project -----Original Message----- From: Vivian Cates [mailto:vtoole@ballistic.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:15 AM To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DMU] LUFKIN TX 7/24/03 ALL-DAY DEEDMAPPER WORKSHOP FYI,If you are not inteested just hit the delete button. Perhaps this workshop will be of interested to some people subscribed to this list. I Pre-conference Activity for the 7th Annual Angelina College Genealogy Conference Regular Genealogy conference is Friday and Saturday July 25-26, 2003 Registration fee of $120 includes five meals. Enrollment limit roughly 100 All Day DEEDMAPPER Workshop Thursday, July 24, 2003 Angelina College, Lufkin Texas 9 am to 4 pm with regular morning, lunch, and afternoon breaks. Presented by Michael John Neill of Carl Sandberg College, Galesburg, Illinois $55.00 registration fee includes lunch catered by college food service. Registration limited to 20 people. Hands on workshop in college computer lab. Registration was at 10 people 7/9/03 Seats are still available. For additional information and to register by mail or in person: Community Services Division Angelina College, 3500 South First Street, P.O. Box 1768, Lufkin, Texas 75902-1768 Phone 1-936-633=5206 College offices are closed on Friday. Days Inn is the headquarters motel at $49.00 per night plus 13% motel/hotel tax In order to keep having this conference we need all the help we can get getting out the publicity so that we have a good turnout. College budget has been cut like a lot of other places. This is the only public college west of the Mississippi currently sponsoring a genealogy conference with outside speakers. Please pass the word along to all of your genealogy friends whom you think might want to attend. At the door parking. All airconditioned buildings and handicapped accessible and minimum walking. 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