[copied from google.com] Each year the South Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Society sponsors a daylong seminar with many excellent programs. This seminar is a must -- mark your calendar. This year the featured speaker is George Schweitzer. His educational and entertaining historical re-enactments (in uniform) of characters representing the American Revolution and the Confederacy makes learning military history fun. You will learn about the beliefs of the day and why they fought. He also will explain what sources are available, how to locate them and what they tell us about these historic periods in time. The seminar will be March 27, 2004 at the Holiday Inn at 6563 U.S. 49 in Hattiesburg, MS. Early registration is recommended for this sell-out seminar. Cost of the seminar is $25 per person if you pre-register by March 6. No credit cards accepted. After March 7 or at the door, registration will be $30 (cash only at the door). Send checks and registration information to: South Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Society, P.O. Box 15271, Hattiesburg, MS 39404-5271. In the memo field write "seminar registration." Schweitzer is a Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee. He has a bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry, a master's degree in the history of religion, a Ph.D. in history of science and a doctor of science degree in philosophy of science. He is Phi Beta Kappa and listed in Who's Who in America. He has authored 220 publications including 19 genealogical guidebooks. Schweitzer uses historical re-enactment to teach genealogy and has traced many of his ancestral lines back to the early 1500s. He has lectured to more than 200 genealogical and historical societies in the United States, Canada, England and Germany. Books and other genealogical items will be for sale from various vendors. Clarise Fleck Soper is treasurer for the South Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Society and the editor of Southern Footprints Magazine. She can be reached at [email protected] Originally published Sunday, January 18, 2004