GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED FOR SE MO The Stoddard County Genealogical Society, in cooperation with the Keller Library, 402 W. Grant, Dexter, MO 63841 (PH 573-624-3764) will be holding a genealogical workshop on Friday, April 30th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM with Lorena Shell Eaker of Church Hill, TN as presenter. Participants in this workshop are asked to bring their ancestor charts and/or family group sheets and (copies only) of Bible records and other legal documents for a period of show and tell after the program presentation. Access to the copy machine is provided for those wanting to share. Mrs Eaker is a native of Bollinger County and a direct descendant of many of the early settlers of SE MO. She is a veteran of 57 years in genealogical research. The hobby she shared with her late husband until his death in 1990. She is the renowned author of The Shoe Cobbler's Kin, A Genealogy of The Peter Eaker, Sr. Family, Vol. I 1976, Vol. II 1985; and her most recent book "One Wise Man, A Genealogy of Frederick Wise of Lincoln County, NC and His Descendants, 2002"; all of which pertain to thousands of area families with many ancestral sketches of families with whom they intermarried.. Her book, "German Speaking People West of the Catawba River In NC 175 0-1800 (With Some Émigrés Participation In The Early Settlement of Southeast Missouri), 1994" is a emigrational History of more than 600 immigrant families to the Catawba River Area and has reached wide acclaim as a resource for tracing their children or grandchildren's migrations out of that area. Many of these proceeded to settle Southeast MO and then Northern AR. These four books provide a wealth of genealogical history for SE Missourians within their nearly 4000 pages and 176,000 names. These can be found in most area libraries She also has workshops scheduled for April 28th and May 5th at The Bollinger County Library in Marble Hill; on afternoon of April 27th at the Regional Library in Jackson; and another there on Monday, May 3rd for anyone researching the CRITES family. This particular family is in desperate need of researchers to put their heads together and iron out the many problems. Her many friends and fellow researchers are invited to join her for these sessions. She is currently "putting her house in order" by preparing her vast collection of files and finding a means to share them