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"Combing Your Roots" Symposium October 27th and 28th at Lenoir Community College in Kinston Early registration is $25 At the Door $30 The Heritage Genealogical Society will sponsor the dynamic Genealogy Symposium, “Combing your Roots”. The Symposium will focus on families that have ancestors in Jones, Greene and Lenoir Counties. However, for anyone interested in getting started with a new hobby, genealogy, this symposium will be a great learning experience. Friday October 27th at 1pm early registration will begin in the Heritage Place section of the Lenoir Community College Library. Heritage Place is a genealogical research facility that houses a vast amount of miscellaneous genealogy information and history. It will be open from 1pm to 5pm for symposium attendees to research their family histories. Saturday October 28 from 8am till 8:55 will be registration and a social. The symposium will begin at 9am with a talk on how to get started with your genealogy research. During the day you will learn how to research land patents, migration patterns and cemetery findings. A boxed lunch will be provided on Saturday and is include in your registration. Registration fee is $?. To pre-register for this event contact Charles Grant? Roger Kammerer will speak on “Getting Started”. His talk will help you to understand how to go about your genealogy research. Mr. Kammerer is known as a genealogist, artist and historian. He grew up on the coast in Swansboro, NC where gained his love for North Carolina history under the tutelage of the noted NC historian, Tucker Reed Littleton. He came to East Carolina University in Greenville, NC on an art scholarship in 1974 and has remained in Greenville ever since. Roger has written his Pitts Past column for the Greenville Times since 1984. He has authored or co-authored 21 books and booklets on local records and genealogy. In 2001, he and Candace Pearce published a photographic book on Greenville, which contained over two hundred images. He is the current president of The Pitt County Family Researchers. He contributes his art and history to many local publications.
Dennis Jones will speak on migration patterns. He is a native and life long resident of Onslow County, NC. He has enjoyed researching family genealogies and local Onslow and Jones County history for the last 26 years. As a local historian, he has researched migration patterns to and from Southeastern North Carolina and has done extensive work in Onslow, Jones, Duplin, Lenoir, and Craven Counties. He was a contributing writer to the Onslow County Heritage, Craven County Heritage, and the History and Genealogy – Jones County, NC. As a church historian he co-authored Under the Beechnut Trees: A Centennial History of the First Christian Church in Richlands, NC. He is a member of the Onslow County Historical Society, Onslow County Genealogical Society, the Old New Hanover County Genealogical Society, and a charter member of the Coastal Genealogical Society, and a former member of the Eastern NC Genealogical Society. Dennis is also a member of the Jones County Historical Society as well as a charter member of Heritage Genealogical society. He is currently working with the cemetery committee on the publications of the Jones County Cemetery Book Series. Dennis plans to complete publications in family genealogy and local history as his roots are deep in southeastern NC genealogy and local history. Bruce Pruitt will discuss Land Patents. Mr. Pruitt received degrees from Presbyterian College and Clemson University. He is a member of the North and South Carolina Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society. He received awards in 1988 and 1995 from the North Carolina Genealogical Society for his publications. He has published books based on about 80,000 land entries (or about 80% of the entries from 1778 to 1795), 15,000 land warrants in North Carolina, 10,000 warrants in Tennessee, 27 deed books in Anson County, 23 deed books in Lincoln County, 14 deed books in Guilford County, 8 deed books in New Hanover County, & 7 deed books in Craven County (all in North Carolina) and 19 deed books in Spartanburg County, 12 deed books in Greenville County, & 3 deed books in Pendleton District (in South Carolina), abstracts of about 9,000 plats in South Carolina, and enough other books to total 120 books about records in North Carolina, South Carolina, & Tennessee.
Laura Jones will speak on “Cemetery Findings”. Mrs. Spence has been a genealogist for over 20 years, inspired by the work of her Grandfather John Nobel Lee. She is a member of the Heritage Genealogical Society and is the Co-Chair of the Jones County Cemetery Book Project. She has volunteered her time over the past four years with Kay Ogle and Dennis Jones and many others collecting and recording information from Jones County residents about cemeteries and their occupants. Some of their most important work has been collecting information about graves that are unmarked. She has been wonderfully encouraged by the residents of Jones County who have given their time and skills to help the team locate local cemeteries. Included in the books are many entries from the personal knowledge of family members or public records indicating where family members are buried. Together the committee has produced Volume I and Volume II of the Jones County Cemetery.
Heritage Place is a genealogical research facility that houses a vast amount of miscellaneous genealogy information and history. It is a section of the Lenoir Community College Library in Kinston. It will be open on Friday October 27,2006 from 1pm to 5pm for symposium attendee to research their family histories.
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