Hi Everyone, Thanks to our gracious listowners (Dr. Jane Lyons & Cathy Joynt Labath) for allowing this post. My apologies to those of you who will receive duplicates of this post, but this is a bit important and an opportunity I would like to share with all of you who are local to southern California, or who will be in the area at this time. The society for which I am the newsletter editor is a non-profit organization (501) (c) (3), whose primary purpose is the advancement of the education of the public and our members in family history research, for the countries of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. We are having a seminar August 13th and the lecturer is one of our past presidents and renowned author, lecturer, researcher, Linda Jonas. This will be a great seminar, learn how to make a breakthrough in your [American] colonial research. Linda is the best speaker you will ever hear on this subject. She has lectured on this subject and has written one of the best books on English research. She will explain why you must have knowledge of British research and law to do effective Colonial American research. Linda has taught thousands to do faster, better research. Take advantage of her expertise in this area. The two books Linda has co-authored together with Paul Milner are: - Genealogist Guide to Discovering Your English Ancestors, ISBN 1-55870-536-8, 2000 - Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors, ISBN 1-55870-599-6, 2002 --- both are published by Betterway Books, an imprint of F & W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236, (800)289-0963 Your price of admission includes a proper British tea, with lunch choices of Croissant sandwiches - ham, chicken, roast beef, or egg salad. Fresh fruit and salads, cakes, tarts, bars, lemonade and tea. Peruse the new books in the BIFHS-USA inventory. The details are available on a flyer posted at the URL on my byline. The basics are below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Saturday, 13 August, 2005, 8 AM until 4 PM 17th Annual Semiar Essentials for Making British Connections featuring Linda Jonas at: Veterans Memorial Complex, Rotunda Room 4117 Overland Avenue Culver City, CA Contact Annie Lloyd for further details at: Cardi2@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Please feel free to forward this post to any lists or persons you think may be interested. Best regards to all, Jim McNamara British Isles Family History Society - USA, Newsletter Editor http://www.rootsweb.com/~bifhsusa