From: Susan Silver [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 3:51 PM To: gftl Subject: SIGS in October MEDIA RELEASE >From Susan Covey SIGS Publicity Chair 502-456-5322 FIRST FAMILIES’ HISTORY AND HERITAGE CELEBRATION A History and Heritage Celebration, the premiere event of First Families of Floyd, Clark, and Harrison Counties, will be held Thursday, October 2, 2014, at the Strassweg Auditorium of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library. The public is invited to visit between 6 and 7 PM to enjoy frontier period entertainment and light refreshments; meet re-enactors of tri-county citizens, genealogists and historians, and view county history displays. Attendees are welcome to dress in pioneer costume. At 7 PM, First Families certificates will be awarded to those who have proved direct descent from an ancestor living in Floyd, Clark or Harrison County prior to 1841. Living historian Mandy Dick will present as her first family ancestor, Elizabeth Pennington, and tell her amazing story of kidnap by Indians, return to her Harrison County family, marriage to one of Indiana’s founders, and her influence on the writing of Indiana’s state constitution. The celebration is co-sponsored by the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society and the library’s Indiana Room. For more information, please visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~insigs/nextmeet.htm or call 812-949-3527. -- Susan Covey <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]