Upcoming presentations
How is it possible that it’s already Labor Day here in the United States?
It seems like yesterday it was the Fourth of July and the day before yesterday was New Year’s Day and…
Tempus fugit, for sure. And then some!
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.
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. 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.
October 2024
• CORRECTION: Friday, 18 October, 9:50 a.m. EDT: The Virginia Genealogical Society begins its two-day virtual Fall Conference. I’m presenting twice on Friday, with the virtual talks Finding Virginia Law and Crows Heads and Squirrel Scalps: Early Virginia Laws . For more information and to register, watch the event page (info coming soon!).
• CORRECTION: Saturday, 19 October, 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT): The Ventura County (CA) Genealogical Society is hosting its 2024 Annual Seminar, From Murder to Methods: Using Genealogical Records. The four lectures for the day are Death by Undue Means – Coroner’s Records; NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; Putting Those Records to Work; and When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records. For more information and to register, see the event page.
• Monday, 21 October, 7 p.m. EDT: The Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation DNA and the Golden Rule: Ethics of Genetic Genealogy in a hybrid format (Zoom to members only and in person at the Fairview Park Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library). For more information, see the society website.
• Wednesday, 23 October, 2 p.m. EDT: The Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the webinar presentation Which Johann Christoph is Mine?. For more information, see the webinar page.
• Friday-Saturday, 25-26 October: The Minnesota Genealogical Society is holding its 17th annual North Star Conference at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan, MN. There’s a pre-conference set of DNA workshops on October 24, and I am proud to be kicking off the conference itself with a look at Roadblocks, Red Lights and Detours: Record Access for Genealogists. After that, I join a whole host of terrific speakers such as Blaine Bettinger (another keynoter), and Paula Stuart-Warren, and Jay Fonkert and… and… and… Other talks I’m giving are NARA Mythbusters: Your Family is in the Archives, No Vitals, No Problem: Building a Family Through Circumstantial Evidence, Revelers, Hogkillers, and Disobedient Children: Early State Law, and the banquet talk, Just Three Generations. For more information, see the North Star Conference page.
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: September-October 2024,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 2 September 2024).
