Upcoming presentations
Oh, man, is this summer speeding by fast. The last of the summer genealogy institutes (summer camp for family historians!) is already underway this week as the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) is enthralling lucky students at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the fall is coming up fast.
So… what’s on the schedule? Some fun stuff, and The Legal Genealogist wants to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip.
August 2024
• Saturday, 24 August, 3 p.m. EDT: The Athens-Clarke County (GA) Library is hosting the virtual presentation Breaker Boys and Spinner Girls: Child Labor Laws and their Records. For more information and to register, see the event page.
September 2024
• Saturday, 7 September, 9 a.m. CDT (10 a.m. EDT): The Waupaca Area (WI) Genealogical Society is hosting its day-long virtual program, with four presentations: Landing the Ancestors: Federal and State Land Records; Copyright Mythconceptions; That First Trip to the Courthouse; and Polls, Personalty and Property–Making Sense of Tax Lists. For more information, see the event listing; to register, email the link on that web page.
• Saturday, 14 September, 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT): The San Diego Genealogical Society is hosting its virtual annual meeting and seminar. The four presentations for the day are: “Deemed a Runaway” – Black Laws of the “Free” States; Doing Time – Prison Records as Genealogy Resources; From the 18th to the 21st: The Records of Prohibition; and Inventing America – Records of the U.S. Patent Office. For more information and to register, see the event listing at the society website.
• Wednesday, 18 September, 8 p.m. EDT: The Genealogical Society of New Jersey is hosting the virtual presentation More Than Just Names: Advanced US Census Research. For more information and to register, see the webinar calendar page and scroll down to the September event.
• Thursday, 19 September, 7 p.m. EDT: The Ford’s Colony (VA) Genealogy Club is hosting the virtual presentation When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records. For more information, see the society’s meeting schedule page.
• Saturday, 21 September, 9:30 a.m. PDT (noon EDT): The Georgia Genealogical Society is holding its hybrid (in-person and online) annual seminar at the Thomasville History Center in Thomasville, Georgia. The day’s four sessions are: Staying Out of Trouble–The Rights and Responsibilities of Today’s Genealogists; The Ethical Genealogist; Advertising the Law: The Gems in the Legal Notices; and After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA. For more information and to register, see the seminar page on the society’s website.
Come on out and join us, if you can, for one or more of these events and note, in some cases, that registration will be free or at a reduced cost to members of the host society — and some are limited to members only… There are some reaaaaaaally good reasons for joining genealogical societies… Just sayin’…
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Coming up: August-September 2024,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 13 August 2024).
