Posts filed under ‘Workshops’
EVENTS: FREE Fall 2010 Genealogy Workshops
Family History Center
Cherry Hill, NJ
November
Thursday, November 4, 2010 (7:30 pm) Writing Your Life Stories (A. Young)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 (10:00 am) The Stepping Stones for Genealogy (T. Mirarchi)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 (12:00 pm) Tracing Your Italian Ancestors (T. Mirarchi)
Saturday, November 13, 2010 (10:00 am) County Courthouse Research (S. Jordon)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 (10:30 am) Writing Your Life Stories (A. Young)
Download the flyer here >> Family History Center – FALL2010
LOCATION
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
252 E. Evesham Road
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Tele: (856) 795-8841
WEBSITE
www.southjerseyfamilyhistory.org
CONFERENCE: Annual Underground Railroad History Conference
9th Annual Underground Railroad History Conference
Organized by the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc., hosted by Russell Sage College of Troy, NY and in collaboration with Rensselaer County Historical Society.
Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity in Abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and in the Struggle Since
February 26 – 28, 2010
Schedule of Events
February 26
Day Program
The Not So Underground Underground Railroad, presented by Kathy Sheehan, Rensselaer County Historian and Mary Liz Stewart, Scholar-In-Residence, the Sage Colleges and co-founder URHPCR
Evening Program
Guest Lecturer: Rhonda Y. Williams, PhD
Address: Railroads, Streets & Bridges – Black Women & Freedom Journeys
• Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer
• Associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University
• Program faculty for the ethnic studies and women and gender studies programs
• Author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban
Inequality (2004)
February 27
Day Program
Keynote Speaker: Rosemary Sadlier, President, Ontario Black History Society
Address: Mary Ann Shadd – Publisher, Editor, Teacher, Lawyer, Suffragette
• Lobbied Canadian government to declare February as Black History Month
throughout Canada
• Author of The Kids Book of Black Canadian History (2003), Tubman: Harriet
Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Her Life in the United States and Canada
(1996), Mary Ann Shadd: Publisher, Editor, Teacher, Lawyer, Suffragette (1994)
Evening Program
Art Exhibit Opening & Book Signing
Mark Priest, artist – The Charles Nalle Rescue exhibit
Scott Christianson, author – Freeing Charles book signing
February 28
Tours of the Underground Railroad and African American heritage sites
For a complete listing of pre-conference activities, workshops, speakers, accommodations, sponsors and directions, please visit the UGR website at: www.ugrworkshop.com or call directly at: 518-432-4432.
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WORKSHOP: US Census Records
January 30, 2010, 12-3 PM
AAGG will hold a workshop on US Census Records from 12-3 PM at Community College of Philadelphia, located at 4725 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, PA.
The workshop is open to our members for FREE. The fee for non-members is $10.00.
EVENT: Genealogical Computing
How do you harness all of this power in such a way that it meets your primary goal, to advance your research? We will discuss ways in which the computer, the internet and portable electronics, enhance your research, by providing data, organization and easy access to your body or work.
EVENT: Around the World in a Day
Let Your Fingers Do the Searching
For the beginning genealogist to the professional
Saturday, August 1, 2009
9 am to 4 pm
Location:
500 West Chestnut Hill Road
Newark, Delaware 19713
Free (Registration Required and Box lunch is $8). Featuring Keynote Speakers: Paul F. Smart and Paul G. Nauta presenters from FamilySearch.org, Salt Lake City, Utah and Daniel Lynch, author of “Google Your Family Tree”, www.googleyourfamilytree.com (more…)
EVENT: Underground Railroad Workshop
The theme of the 2010 UGR History Conference calls on us as academic scholars, independent researchers, performers, educators, and community members to examine the many ways that these forces interacted to shape the UGR and the struggles that followed it, and to consider how these interactions impact us today.
