June 9-14, 2013

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Monday June 10, 2013

• Seventeen Repositories, One Life
  
  • Presented by John Philip Colletta
  • 6:00-7:15 p.m.
  • Christenberry Planetarium, Propst Hall
  • Myriad small, specialized repositories across the country hold original records containing information about our ancestors. These collections are usually maintained on a shoestring budget by a staff of one or two people. We don't know about them until an ancestor's work or creed or social activity leads us to one. Carl Ludwig Richter is a good example. The facts of this 19th-century Prussian immigrant's marriages and children may be gleaned from "standard" genealogical sources. However, the more interesting and historically significant aspects of his life come to light only by exploiting original historical sources in sixteen different repositories. This lecture encourages family historians to explore small, specialized collections for the personal details of their ancestors' lives.

• The Ethical Genealogist
  
  • Presented by Judy G. Russell
  • 6:00-7:15 p.m.
  • Auditorium, Brooks Hall
  • Genealogists deal with sensitive issues all the time: how to handle family secrets, what to say about living people, crediting the work of others. This session is an overview of the legal and ethical challenges of trying to solve family history mysteries in the 21st century.

• Certification: Procedures, Questions, and Answers
  
  • Presented by Thomas Jones and Elissa Powell
    
  • 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
    
  • Auditorium, Brooks Hall
    

• A Family for Isabella: Building a Family through Circumstantial Evidence
  
  • Presented by Judy G. Russell
  • 6:00-7:15 p.m.
  • Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall
  • When there's no birth, marriage or death record, what's a genealogist to do? Learn how to use circumstantial evidence to build a family from bits and pieces and hints and clues gathered from a wide variety of sources. This session features the case study of a woman married before the 1850 census.

• Evidence from Material Culture: Using Artifacts in Research and Writing
  
  • Presented by John Philip Colletta
  • 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
    
  • Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall
  • This lecture demonstrates how to use family heirlooms-such as jewelry, a pocket watch, photographs, kitchen utensils, furniture, books, letters and diaries-and on-site inspection of ancestral places-such as gravesites and homesteads-to help portray who an ancestor was. Clues from material culture, in conjunction with oral family lore and information from written records, may reveal an ancestor's physical appearance, character, temperament, personal interests, social standing, day-to-day life, and perhaps even personal goals and motives
    

• The ABCs of DNA
  
  • Presented by Judy G. Russell
  • 6:00-7:15 p.m.
  • Auditorium, Brooks Hall
  • An overview of the three major test types - YDNA, mitochondrial (mtDNA) and the new autosomal DNA testing - and what each offers to the genealogist.

• "A Rare Titanic Family"
  
  • Banquet Speaker: Julie Hedgepeth Williams
  • 6:30 p.m.
    
  • Cafeteria, University Center