Unsubscribe Gregory R. Aymond Alexandria, Louisiana -----Original Message----- From: vtoole <vtoole@ballistic.com> To: TXJASPER-L@rootsweb.com <TXJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: [TXJASPER] GEN.SEM. 10/16/99 > THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER AND ATTEND THIS SEMINAR! Walk-ins >welcome before 9:00 am. There are plenty of seats left. > I want to remind everybody on the lists for Angelina County, Texas, >and its neighboring counties about the upcoming VIRGINIA RESEARCH >SEMINAR at Angelina College, in Lufkin, Texas, on Saturday, October 16, >1999. Unless all your ancestors came late enough for Ellis Island >(1892), if you get back far enough in your research just about everybody > >has somebody who came through Virginia. Vendors are welcome. Call >ahead for space. > Speaker will be the well known Mary McCampbell Bell of Arlington, >Virginia. Price is $45.00 which includes continental breakfast, and >break snacks, and a salad and sandwich buffett lunch in the college >cafeteria. She is an excellent nationally known speaker and it cost to >get her to East Texas from Virginia. She will present four one hour and > >15 minutes sessions on Migrations out of early Virginia to other regions > >and the use of Virginia records including deeds and patents, probate >records and court order books and tax records with very informative and >detailed handouts. Program begins at 9:00 a.m. > In my other genealogy life, I teach genealogy and organize these >special genealogy events at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas, a two >year community college 100 miles or a two hour drive north up Hwy 59 >from Houston, Texas. While a lot of colleges are teaching continuing >education/hobby courses in genealogy now, Angelina College is the only >college in Texas that we know about and probably the only one between >Alabama and Utah that is bringing in special speakers for fall and >spring seminars and holding a three day summer conference. > The dates for next summer's conference are Thurs-Sat, July 27-29. >Theme is expected to be Researching the mid-1800's, the Civil War Era, >if I can get enough speakers on that topic and maybe some re-enactors >together. > If you would like to be on the mailing list please let us know. If >we do not have a good turnouts for these programs, college could decide >not to sponsor them anymore. I have some areas well covered and almost >nobody in some of the adjoining counties where there are apparently no >local genealogy societies. > Dates for the spring seminar are Friday, March 31, and Saturday, >April 1, 2000. Speaker will be Rhonda R. McClure of Florida with a >variety of topics. Some speakers will speak on Friday night and some >will only speak on Saturday. Mrs. McClure will speak on Friday night; >Mrs Bell does not. Mrs. McClure's Friday night topics will be >Organization and migrations. Saturday topics will be one session on New > >England research and three sessions on using computers and the internet. > > For more information Contact: Community Services, Angelina >College, P. O Box 1768, Lufkin, Texas, 75902-1768 1-409-633-5206. The >name of the lady who does registration is Susan. e-mail >fkanke@angelina.cc.tx.us fax is 1-409-639-3863 Seats are still >available. Walk-ins are welcome on a space available basis the morning >of the seminar. You can register the morning of the conference, but it >is best to call ahead so that you will have a lunch >reservation. Late Registration is from 8-8:45 am with the program >beginning at 9 am. with a one hour break for lunch, 12-1. > If you are interested in speaking at a future conference, send a >resume and a list of topics with summaries on which you speak. Speakers > >are by inviation. Let us hear from you if you have suggestions for >future speakers or topics. > We need a good turnout for these events or college could decide not to >sponsor them in the future. >Vivian Toole Cates, Rt. #2 Box 52-A, Alto, Texas 75925 1-409-858-3801 >vcates@ballistic.com http://www.ballistic.com/~vcates >college web page http://www.angelina.cc.tx.us click on Community >Services > > > > > > > > > > >