SAVANNAH AREA GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION Fall Seminar entitled: Pioneers of Georgia on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2000 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. at SAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE 5717 WHITE BLUFF ROAD Savannah, GA. > Pre-registration cost is $30.00 for SAGA Members, $35.00 for > non-members and $40.00 for registration after September 15, 2000. > For more information contact SAGA President Nancy Birkheimer at (912) > 238-1962 or by e-mail at NBSAV@aol.com. > Speakers will be: > Carrie Adamson, A.B.J., genealogical editor, librarian, lecturer, chartering > president and lifetime honorary president, Augusta Genealogical Society; > editor, AGS Ancestoring and Southern Echoes; editor, V. McDowell's > When Your Ox Is in the Ditch; NGS lecturer. > Kimberly Bass Ball, BA, MA, Research Archivist at the Georgia Historical > Society. She lectures and instructs on beginning genealogical research. She > has done genealogical research in Alabama and Georgia. > Alvie L. Davidson, C.G.R.S. has been involved in genealogy for > approximately 35 years. He is a private investigator with a specialty in > missing persons and genealogical applications of investigations. Founder > and current President of the Imperial Polk > Genealogical Society in Lakeland, Florida. > Sonny Dixon is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He anchors The News at > Noon on WTOC-TV, in additions to other duties at the station. He > represented West Chatham County for nine years in the Georgia House of > Representatives. He has done extensive genealogical research in Georgia > and North Carolina. > Robert Scott Davis, Jr., is Director of the Family & Regional History > Program, Wallace State College, Hanceville, Alabama where he teaches > college level courses in genealogy and operates a family history research > center. He is a prolific author of genealogical articles and books and is > nationally recognized for his work in American genealogy. > Jennifer Schmidt is Vice-President of Appleton's Books & Genealogy > which she and her husband Blaine operate in Charlotte, NC. She is the > former Director-at-Large of the North Carolina Genealogical Society and > former Editor of "NCGS News" as well as the former Director of > GenTech. and the former President of the Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical > Society (Charlotte, NC). She has been lecturing in genealogy since 1996, > including national conference presentations. > Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. is the author of the Atlanta Journal-Constitutions > genealogy column, which he has written for over twenty years. He has > lectured before historical and genealogical groups throughout Georgia, most > notably before the Association of Professional Genealogists. > E. L. "Boe" Williams is Chairman of the Board for the Huxford > Genealogical Society in Homerville, Georgia. He worked closely with the > late Judge Folks Huxford in researching, editing and publishing volumes 6 > & 7 of Pioneers of Georgia. He has also worked with HGS members to > edit volumes 8-10 and is currently working on volume 11. He has > extensive knowledge of the history of "Wiregrass" Georgia families and its > dynamics as well as the historian for the Williams clans of northwest > Florida.