Is anyone planning to attend the National Genealogical Society Conference in the States and Family History Fair in Richmond Virginia next week? This Genealogical Conference will be host to genealogist from all across the country. There will be over 100 exhibitors in attendance with a wide variety of items to explore and there are a variety of seminars each and ever day. It will be four days of very interesting programs that will help even the seasoned genealogist. Choosing which programs to attend was the hardest thing to do as all the programs should be very interesting and if I could attend them all. A group of members of the Gallia County Historical and Genealogical Society will be in attendance and it would be nice to know if any of our fellow Gallia County researcher will be at the conference. Our group will be leaving on Monday as we plan to spend time researching at the Virginia State Library and visit some of the local historical sites. So, if you are also planning to be in Richmond before the conference we may see you in a restaurant, the library, the State House, a cemetery, church or anywhere else you might find a genealogist. Our group will be the ones walking up to strangers to ask where their family came or who their family might be. We hope to meet people from all over the country and hope to connect to others that might be either family or that their family might have traveled through Gallia County at one time. We hope to met many new people and this is one time that talking to strangers can be profitable (you never know who might be a cousin) So, let us know if you are planning to attend the conference. It should be a wonderful week of learning new things and gathering ideas to help create new and exciting programs in Gallia County. You can never know everything there is about researching and what better place to continue to learn but with the National Genealogical Society! I hope to see some of you in attendance! Marjorie If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw