Virginia and North Carolina conferences
Long-time readers know that The Legal Genealogist has deep roots in Virginia and North Carolina.
My mother’s people arrived in the colonial period in southern Maryland and northern Virginia … and never looked northward. They moved south and then southwest over the generations, and it wasn’t until my generation that any even lived north of the Mason-Dixon line.
So, as you can imagine, I am a proud member of — among others — the Virginia Genealogical Society and the North Carolina Genealogical Society.
Both of which are having their fall conferences this month.
On the same day, Saturday, October 28.
And on a day when I can’t attend either of them.
Sigh…
But the fact that I can’t go doesn’t mean you can’t.
Here’s the info.
First, the North Carolina Genealogical Society, where members and others interested may have encountered a web glitch in trying to register for the hybrid conference, scheduled for October 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center in Raleigh. This in-person-or-virtual conference will feature Shannon Combs-Bennett whose presentations will be:
• Lineage Societies Are More Than Hats and Gloves: The Evolution of Lineage Societies and Their Contribution to the Field of Genealogy
• DNA Testing For Genealogy: It Really is More Than Just Spitting in a Test Tube
• Roadmaps Tell You More Than How to Get From A to B: Creating a Research Plan With DNA Testing
• Macclesfield to North Carolina: A Case Study Concerning the Brassfield Lines Who Helped Settle North Carolina
The website issue has been fixed, so you can get more information and register at the NCGS fall conference events page.
If your research is focused on the Old Dominion, the Virginia Genealogical Society conference is all virtual and scheduled for October 28 from 9:45 am – 3:20 pm. This conference features four presentations:
• Finding Virginia’s Wives, Mothers, and Sisters, presented by Vic Dunn, CG
• Enslaved Ancestral Research in Virginia and North Carolina? Oh, Yes You Can!, presented by Renate Yarborough Sanders
• Finding Thomas’s Father Through Records, Land Platting, and DNA, presented by Pam Stone Eagleson, CG
• Four Essential Indexes for Virginia Researchers, presented by Leslie Anderson, MSLS
And you can get more information and register at the VGS fall conference events page.
And, of course, since there’s a virtual component to both of these, you can register for both and have access to the recordings for a time after each conference.
Which, of course, is what I’m going to have to do…
An embarrassment of riches for us folks looking to research down home.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Looking down home…,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 5 Oct 2023).
