Greetings all:

I will be facilitating the second in a series of African American Family
History Workshops on Saturday, October 5, 2002.  If you have connections to
Virginia's Historic Northern Neck, or happen to be in the
Lancaster/Northumberland Counties, VA vicinity, you are invited to come.
Please forward this message to anyone you think may be interested.  Full
details follow.

Thanks,

Karen E. Sutton

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African American
Genealogy Workshop
Part II

"Trace Your Black Roots, Using Court Records"
Saturday, October 5, 2002
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
6749 Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway
Wicomico Church, VA

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:00    Available Court Records & Record Room Etiquette
10:00 - 11:00   Case Study:  "The Nickens Family:
Tracing a Non-Slave African American Family from Virginia to Maryland & Back"
11:00 - 12:00   Wrap-Up (Questions & Answers)

Open to the Public, Free, if registered in advance. Co-sponsored by The Mt.
Olive Baptist Church, The Shiloh Baptist Church, Reedville, VA, and The
"Closing the Gap" Project, Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library, Lancaster,
VA.
Karen E. Sutton, MA, Family Historian -- Facilitator.
Mrs. Eleanor Morris, Retired Deputy Court Clerk, Guest Speaker.

Please e-mail [log in to unmask], or call 804-435-3725 or 804-758-8164 to
pre-register, or for further information no later than 5:00 PM, Thursday,
October 3, 2002.

If you think you can make it, please pre-register.  Leave your name, phone
number, e-mail, and the same information for everyone you are
pre-registering.  Pre-registered attendees will be admitted free of charge.
On-site Registration available @ $10/person.  Walk-Ins accepted on space
available basis.

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