Good morning everyone. Here is the latest on the Wayne County Family History Fair on 10 and 11 July. The Wayne County Historical Society is proud to announce the schedule for its 10th Annual Family History Fair, which will be held at the Collinwood Elementary School, Collinwood, Tennessee on Friday and Saturday the 10th and 11th of July. This year the Fair is entitled A Genealogical Chautauqua and will feature on Friday, the 10th of July, a series of three lectures by well known authors and genealogists and on Saturday, the 11th of July, the general fair. Doors open on Friday at 8:00 A.M. and on Saturday at 8:00 A.M. for vendors/providers and 9:00 A.M. for the general public. The first lecture on Friday will begin at 9 A.M. and is entitled, Researching Your Ancestors In The Five Civilized Tribes. The guest speaker will Mrs. Dorothy Tincup Mauldin of Tulsa, Oklahoma., well known author, publisher and lecturer on Native American genealogical research. The second lecture will begin at 12 noon and is entitled Time and Place - Using Chronological and Geographical Clues to Break Through Common Roadblocks In Research by Dr. Alice Eichholz, professor of independent study in psychology and family history at Vermont College of Norwich University, Monpelier, Vermont. Dr. Eichholz has 25 years of experience as a genealogist and has lectured often at national and regional conferences. Some of her publications include Ancestrys Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, Collecting Vermont Ancestors, and she is co-editor of Black Genesis with James Rose. She received the Grahame T. Smallwood Jr. Award of Merit from the Association for Professional Genealogists in 1988 and the Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching at Norwich University in 1991. The third and final lecture for the day will start at 2:30 P.M. and is entitled Genealogy and The Internet. The guest speaker for this lecture is Mrs. Billie McNamara, of Knoxville, Tennessee, founder of the Tennessee Genealogical Web a project of the US Genealogy Web. Mrs. McNamara is now the coordinator for the Tennessee Genealogy and History Web. A registration fee of $10.00 will charged per person to attend any or all of the lectures on Friday. Individuals may pre-register for the lectures on Friday by sending their registration fee along with name and address to the Wayne County Historical Society, Attn: Family History Fair, P.O. Box 866, Waynesboro, TN 38485, or you may register at the door on Friday. The general Fair on Saturday is a genealogical swap shop with vendors of genealogical materials and publications and individual family information providers. The doors open for the general public at 9:00 A.M. (Vendors/Providers should plan to arrive between 8 and 9). There will be a $1.00 admission charge to attend the Saturday Fair. If you would like to reserve a table as a vendor or a provider of information, please send your name, address and the items you will have for sale, or the names of your families, to Wayne County Family History Fair, P.O. Box 866, Waynesboro, TN 38485-0866. Hope to see some of you there. Edgar Edgar D. Byler, III edby3@netease.net Editor, Wayne County Historian Wayne County, Tennessee, USA Wayne County Web Page: http://www.netease.net/wayne