Subject: "Exploring Your Jersey Roots III" & GSNJ Spring Program From: "Joan M Lowry" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:30:18 -0500 GSNJ is very pleased to announce that once again we are co-sponsoring a wonderful lecture series with the NJ State Archives - "Exploring Your Jersey Roots III" There are too many details to squeeze into an email - but here are the highlights! "Jersey Roots III" will be held on Wednesday evenings from April 26 through May 24 and the grand finale for the series will be the all-day GSNJ Spring Program on Saturday, June 3. The evening lectures have wonderful topics and speakers - information follows: 26 April: Internet Sources for NJ Genealogy John W. Konvalinka 3 May: Using the Records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors Joseph R. Klett 10 May: The New Face of FamilySearch.org Cheri Wortmann 17 May: Tracing Your Immigrant Family at the New Jersey State Archives Bette M. Epstein 24 May: Genealogy for Kids: Activities and Projects to Celebrate Family History Catherine Wilkinson Zahn Saturday, June 3 will have a military theme and will be part of a two track event. Lectures will be: 1. Tracing your Revolutionary War Ancestor at the NJ State Archives Catherine S. Medich 2. The Veterans' Reverie, Researching genealogy (military biography) at the US Army Military History Institute Richard Baker (MSgt, USAF, ret.) 3. Website and Database Sources for Military Research at the NJ State Archives Veronica Calder & Vivian Thiele 4. Twentieth-Century Military Research Larry Fermi The second track on Saturday will be "Ask the Experts." There will be both a panel format and one-on-one consultations with either an Archives staff member, a GSNJ Trustee, or other professional genealogist. Saturday, June 3, will also feature a genealogy book fair with a number of vendors. BooksNJ, the Capital Bookstore, will also be open for the day (and offering a 10% discount to all attendees!) Everything will be happening in Trenton. The evening lectures will all be held in the NJ State Archives manuscript reading room and will also feature some extended hours in the microfilm reading room for attendees. Saturday's events will be hosted in the NJ State Museum Auditorium and the NJ State Archives building. Wednesday evening lectures begin at 6:30 and Saturday, June 3, registration will begin at 8:30, lectures at 9:30 and the day will end around 3:30. Light refreshments will be provided for the evening lectures and box lunches will be served on Saturday. Details and Registration forms will be available very soon on both the GSNJ website and on the NJ State Archives websites - as soon as the webmasters can get the details arranged in an easy to access format... GSNJ hopes to have the information up on the website over this weekend. Please take a look at <www.gsnj.org> The State Archives should also have the information up very soon. See their website at <www.njarchives.org/links/archives.html> We hope that you will all be able to join us for at least a few of these exciting topics and events! Regards, Joan Joan M. Lowry Genealogical Society of New Jersey mailto:[email protected] website: www.gsnj.org