June 8-13 Birmingham, Alabama, Samford University's Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research, offers several tracts from beginning to professional < http://www.samford.edu/schools/ighr/ighr.html>; June 19-22 Dallas, Texas, Dallas Gen Society Institute featuring Lloyd Bockstruck, George Schweitzer and others; A Southern Perspective on the American Experience Aristocrat Hotel of Dallas, 1933 Main Street. Institute is Thurs - Sun. Fees are $200 for lectures, plus hotel room of $89 per night, plus meals. Lunch Fri & Sat, plus Sunday brunch is included. Check their website: http://www.dallasgenealogy.org/institute/institute.htm July 5 Winnfield, Louisiana, WPGHA quarterly meeting. Business meeting starts at 12:30. Program at 1:00. Speaker: Sue Smith Badeaux of Plaqumine. Sue has a degree in archaeology from LSU. In May she – along with attendees from all over the United States – attended the all-day seminar on cemeteries put on by NSU in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She will talk about what she learned at the seminar, including the proper way to clean and take care of tombstones (And it appears that all genealogists are doing it wrong!) Local members bring refreshments. The meeting is informal and free to the public. The book room will be open starting at 9am. The WPGHA meeting rooms are on the 2nd floor above the Health Unit (use back stairs entrance where the small parking lot is located.), The health unit is situated between the Farmer's Market and Winn Parish Public Library on Main Street, two blocks west of the Winn Parish Courthouse, and on the street behind AutoZone on the four-lane. Back issues of the journal will be for sale. July 24-26 Lufkin, Texas, Registration packets are now available for the FOURTH ANNUAL ANGELINA COLLEGE GENEALOGY CONFERENCE Thursday, July 27, through Saturday, July 29, 2000 Angelina College Community Services Conference Center Highway 59 South (3500 South Street) P. O. Box 1768, Lufkin, Texas, 75902-1768 Phone 1-936-633-5206 Fax 1-936-633-5478 Special interest classes in researching the Civil War Era featuring Peggy Barnes Fox of Hill College, Period Music, Re-enactors, and living history exhibits. Special 4 session computer class in PAF 4.00 on Thursday taught by Michael John Neill of Illinois. Regular Conference begins on Thursday night and continues through Saturday afternoon. 27 lecture sessions in three tracts on Friday and Saturday Tracts are general methods and interests, Computers, and Civil War Era. $110.00 includes six catered meals from Thursday night through Saturday lunch in college cafeteria $55.00 for one day. Limited rooms available in college athletic dorm at $10 per night from Wednesday night through Friday night. Over-night accommodations also available at reasonably priced chain motels less than one or two miles from campus. Vivian Cates, Alto, Texas, Angelina College genealogy coordinator, vcates@ballistic.com http://www.ballistic.com/~vcates Angelina College check their web site for more information. Sep 3-6 Orlando, Florida FGS National Conference Aug 9 Shreveport, Louisiana Ark-La-Tex Gen. Assoc. Presents Lloyd de Wit Bockstruck Friday night social (no program) Saturday: Pitfalls in Genealogical Research, Identifying the Maiden Name of Females, Probate and Land Records Research, Genealogical Research in the Southern Colonies. $35 per person, includes luncheon. Ramada Inn, 5115 Monkhouse Drive, Shreveport, LA. Special room rate $55.00 <http://www.rootsweb.com/~laaltga/> Sep 13 Tyler, Texas, East Texas Gen Society presents Lloyd de Wit Bockstruck in an all day workshop: Finding Substitutes for Birth & Death Records, Lesser Used Genealogical Records Genealogical Research in the Southern Colonies, Newspaper Genealogy. $25 First Christian Church on Loop 323 & Broadway, Tyler, TX. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/meetings.html>; Sep 20 Alexandria, Louisiana Central Louisiana Genealogical society presents Claire Mire Bettag, a Louisiana Repositories and Records Specialist $30 before 1 Aug, includes lunch. (At Woodworth, 10 miles south of Alexandria, Exit 73 on I-49.) Sep 27 Houston, Texas The Cuban Papers Seminar $20, plus $3 parking. Julia Ideson Building of Houston Public Library, Downtown, 500 McKinney. Oct 23-25 New Orleans, Louisiana, Creole Studies Conference will include academic research findings, family histories, discussion forums, exhibits, workshops, etc. $55-115 fee, plus meals and hotel. Oct 26-31 Fort Worth Texas, Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance workshops. These workshops are designed for genealogists, historians, librarians, or others with a general genealogical or historical grounding who want to learn skills and techniques for researching original records at regional archives. 1. The first workshop, in cooperation with the National Archives Southeast Region and the Georgia Archives, will be held on-site at the brand new Georgia State Archives Building in Morrow (suburban Atlanta) from 6-10 October 2003. 2. A second workshop is being held in cooperation with the National Archives Southwest Region at its facility in Fort Worth, Texas, from 27-31 October 2003. >Registration numbers are limited, but early registration tuition rates are still available. For more details, to download a registration form, or to register online, visit the RIGS Alliance Web site at http://www.RIGSAlliance.org or e-mail info@RIGSAlliance.org. Pamela Boyer Porter, CGRS, CGL, Assistant Director, Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance, Inc. (RIGS Alliance) <Web Site: <www.RIGSAlliance.org> E-mail: PPorter@RIGSAlliance.org