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FREE EVENTS
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
African-American Genealogy Forum
North Carolina Museum of History
9:30 AM
Free and open to the public.
The forum, to be held in conjunction with the 2009 NGS Family History Conference, will feature presentations by Dr. John Quinly Williams, agricultural scientist and author of the forthcoming publication, God, Guts, and Game—Survival of Three African American Families: 1747–2000; Dr. Barnetta White McGhee, author of Somebody Knows My Name; Dorothy Spruill Redford, retired curator, Somerset Place and author of the 1986 publication, Somerset Homecoming; and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Professor Gates wrote and produced the PBS documentary, African American Lives, the first documentary series to employ genealogy and genetic science to provide an understanding of African American history. His latest production, Looking for Lincoln, will air in February 2009. A panel discussion will feature the four speakers as well as another special guest, Bill Haley, son of Alex Haley, of Roots fame.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Special Evening Program
Convention Center Exhibit Hall
All events below are free and open to the public.
Join us for a movie, some free lectures, and extended shopping hours in the exhibit hall Wednesday evening until 7:00 PM. See the conference website for a list of our many exhibitors including book and software vendors, libraries, and organizations.
Society Night
5:00–7:00 PM
Mezzanine area of conference center.
Do you have an ancestor from a North Carolina county? Representatives of many county genealogical and historical societies from all over North Carolina and nearby states will staff booths throughout the mezzanine area of the conference center. Society members will display information about their group’s activities, answer questions about area repositories and resources, and sell publications and books. We will enjoy live piano music throughout the evening.
Evening Lecture Series
7:00 PM
How Our Ancestors Moved over the Land in Olden Times: Land Transport Capabilities and Limitations in Colonial Carolina.
Tom Magnuson from the Trading Path Association
Genealogy 2.0: Using Digital Tools to Trace Your North Carolina Roots
This presentation will provide a guided tour of the North Carolina State Archives/State Library’s digital resources such as the Archives’ MARS catalog and will showcase digitized publications and records related to genealogy. Participation from attendees is encouraged.
Druscie Simpson & Christy Allen from the North Carolina State Library and Archives.
Melungeon Voices, a film by Julie Williams Dixon and Warren Gentry.
The Melungeons of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years with theories of who they might be ranging from descendants of the Lost Colony to descendants of shipwrecked sailors who intermarried with Native Americans. For any genealogist looking for a Melungeon ancestor, this one-hour documentary fi lm is a must see. Part genealogy, part geography, part genetics, the story of the Melungeons offers a fascinating look into the earliest days of America and how people put aside ethnic and racial differences to survive.
Irish Emigration to America and Canada.
This lecture will explain the reasons for and the pattern of emigration from Ireland to America and Canada—who was affected and why.
Mary Sullivan from the Irish History Foundation
The Journey of an Ancestry Record: How an Image on Ancestry.com Gets from the Archives to the Website
Laryn Brown from Ancestry.com
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