EASTMAN HEADS UP NEHGS TECHNOLGY DEPARTMENT
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The New England Historic Genealogical Society, NEHGS, announced this week that Richard Eastman will be joining its senior management team as Assistant Executive Director for Technology in November.
Recognized as a genealogy technology expert Eastman will oversee the Society’s website, http://NewEnglandAncestors.org , and CD-ROM production, as well as all aspects of digital technology at NEHGS.
Well known in the genealogical community as the creator and author of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter Eastman has extensive genealogical speaking experience, has spoken at a number of genealogical conferences, was a member of the Board of Directors of GENTECH and served as Forum Manager of the CompuServe Genealogy Forum from 1988 until 2003. In addition his background includes extensive experience in the commercial computer hardware and technical support industries. Eastman’s hiring is expected to enhance the already great management team at NEHGS.
TSGS MEETS IN AUSTIN
The Texas State Genealogical Society, TSGS, will host their 43rd Annual Genealogical Conference Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7th and 8th at the Hilton Airport Hotel, 9515 New Airport Blvd. in Austin, Texas.
The featured speakers on Friday will be Clint Lynch, Marilyn Maniscalco Henley and Robert de Berardinis. Lynch will be speaking about the Texas State Cemetery, Henley about Research Sources in Austin and de Bernardinis about Newly Available Old Texas Records.
The keynote banquet speaker and featured speaker on Saturday will be Helen F. M. Leary, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS of North Carolina. Her banquet talk will be about the Benefits of Certification and her Saturday talks will be about Weighing Evidence; Differentiating Two Men With The Same Name; Tracing Ancestors Backwards to Former Residences; and Getting More From Records Than There Seems To Be.
Registration on both days begins at 8 a.m. Lectures on Friday begin at 1 p.m. and on Saturday at 9 a.m. The Friday Night Awards Banquet commences at 7 p.m. Registration for both days including the Friday night Awards banquet and Saturday Luncheon is $75.
To learn more about the conference and download a registration form visit the TSGS website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsgs/. For other questions contact Betty H. Dunquez at 409/744-4359 or by e-mail at Bdunquez@aol.com .
SPANISH ERA CONFERENCE IN NOLA
The Genealogical Societies of Metropolitan New Orleans, a consortium of genealogical societies in the parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, St Bernard and St Tammany will sponsor an all day seminar at Jones Hall on the campus of Tulane University, 6801 Ferret Street, on Saturday November 8 from 8 am to 4 p.m.
Speakers at the event will be Bill Meneray, Ph D., speaking on the Spanish Colonial Period of Louisiana, 1762-1803; Pamela Boyer Porter, CG speaking on Spanish Archives Materials for Non-Hispanic Researchers and Reliable Internet Research Sources; and myself, speaking on the Settlement of the Gulf Coast-An Historical Timeline and Study.
Registration for the conference, including lunch, is $40 payable to JGS, Inc./GSMNO Seminar, P.O. Box 961, Metairie, LA 7004-0961.
HALE’S TRANS-ALLEGHENY PIONEERS REPUBLISHED
Clearfield Publishing Company has reprinted John P. Hale’s 1886 edition of Trans-Allegheny Pioneers: Historical Sketches of the First Settlements West of the Alleghenies, 1748 and After.
While the book is a genealogical account of the Draper and Ingles families, Hale’s ancestors, he details the progressive frontier explorations and settlements along the entire Virginia border. His area of concern was the region of the New River-Kanawha in present -day Montgomery and Pulaski counties. The area extends from the Alleghenies to the Ohio and from the New River-Kanawha and tributaries in the Southwest, where settlements first began, to the Monongahela and tributaries, in the Northwest and along the Ohio, where the frontier line of settlements was last to be advanced.
Chronologically the book begins in the 1740-1750 era with emphasis on the 1755 Indian attack on Draper’s Meadows which resulted in the deaths of a number of settlers and the capture and escape of Mary Ingles and Bettie Draper.
From this attack the author ably uses the device of the Indian raid and subsequent flight to describe life along the frontier and the names of the families who settled there. Other chapters are devoted to the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774 and biographical sketches of its participants.
Trans-Allegheny Pioneers may be ordered from the publisher, the Clearfield Company, 200 E. Eager Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 for $ 32.50
