PROGRAM

8:15 a.m. -- Registration (coffee and pastries)
8:45 a.m. -- Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 a.m. -- Fraktur as Often Overlooked Primary Sources, Corinne Earnest
10:00-10:30 a.m. -- Break
10:30-11:30 a.m. -- "Family Register" Broadsides, Russell Earnest
11:30-12:45 p.m. -- Lunch is Provided
12:45-1:45 p.m. -- Using Chancery Suits for Genealogical Research, Mary B. Kegley
1:45-2:15 p.m. -- Break
2:15-3:15 p.m. -- Beyond the Family Tree: Writing a Family History, Charles A. Bodie

ACCOMMODATIONS:

The conference hotel is the Holiday Inn, telephone (276) 228-5483, where the conference is being held. A block of rooms is reserved at $59 per night.

OTHER:

Vendors of books, software, forms, and other items of interest to researchers will be available all day. Be sure to visit them at breaks. There will also be a Freebie Table with catalogs and brochures from genealogical businesses and organizations, as well as door prizes.

For additional information, you may contact us by writing to:

Virginia Genealogical Society
Attn.: Fall Conference
5001 West Broad Street, Suite 115
Richmond, VA 23230-3023

Mark your calendar and plan to attend. Bring a friend!

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

To pre-register by October 15, 2004, send a personal check or money order for $35.00 ($40 non-VGS/WCGHA member) per registrant, payable to the Virginia Genealogical Society, to our address given above.

If payment includes more than one registration fee, please list additional names on a separate sheet so that name tags can be provided.

After October 15, 2004, registration is $40.00 ($45 non-VGS/WCGHA member).

Cancellations received after October 15, 2004, will not be refunded.

Sorry, we cannot take registrations over the Internet at this time.

Print the conference brochure, in PDF.