Conference Program

Session Group Choose one... Pre-Conference Sessions - Tuesday 15 May 2007 Librarian's Day Program - Tuesday 15 May 2007 BCG Education Fund Workshop - Tuesday 15 May 2007 Workshop (Must be Registered for Day of Workshop - note: an exception to this is the Beginner's Workshop on Saturday May 19th) Social Event (Enter Number of Tickets)

Session Type Choose one... Computer Workshop Luncheon Session Workshop Social Event

...or Session Track Choose one... All Sessions BCG Family History Library Genealogical Essentials GENTECH DNA ICAPGen Librarian's Day Migration NARA States Women Virginia Records Ethnic Military GENTECH Land Workshop

Tuesday, May 15
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
B101	BCG Education Fund Workshop	Bell, CG  Hiatt, CG
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
L100	Librarian's Day: When Will All Your Records Be on the Web? Digital Initiatives of the Library of Virginia	Edwards
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
L101	Librarian's Day: History Begins with You: Help Preserve the Past with the Basics of Archives	McDaid
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
L102	Librarian's Day: Luncheon Sponsored by ProQuest
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
B102
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
L103	Librarian's Day: Designing User Friendly Research Guides for Genealogists	Hager, CG, CGL
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
L104	Librarian's Day: Handling Genealogical Inquiries	Sherrill
Wednesday, May 16
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
W101	Opening Session	Shifflett  Weinstein
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
W102	The Family Said It Was So: What to Do When the Family Traditions Are Wrong	Lenzen, CG
W103	From Jamestown to the West: Early Virginia Migration Patterns	Little, CG
W104	Records of the Post Office Department 1773-1971	Shawker, CG
W105	Researching Eighteenth Century Germans	Humphrey, CG
W106	Overlooked Sources: Business, Institution & Organization Records	Fleming, CG, CGL
W107	The Continental Line: Some Not So Revolutionary Rank & Organizational Considerations	Ragusin
W108	What's in It for You? The Library of Virginia's Website	Dunn, MLS
W109	South Carolina Land Grants	Pruitt
W110	GenSmarts	Underwood
12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
W111	Federation of Genealogical Societies Luncheon	Witcher
W112	Virginia Genealogical Society Luncheon	Scott, CG
W113	NIGRAA Luncheon	Lowe, CG
W114	Genealogical Speaker's Guild Luncheon	Melchiori, CG, CGL
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
W115	Solving the Mystery of the Disappearing Ancestor	Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL, FAS
W116	Discovering Your Ancestors on the Virginia Peninsula: Heartland of the Colony, the State and the Nation	Grundset, MLS
W117	Timelines: A Chronology of Life Events	Knuthson
W118	English Research: Seventeenth Century Sources and Indexes	Milner
W119	The United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS)	Mieszala, CG
W120	Understanding the Colonial Wars	Scott, CG
W121	America's GenealogyBank: Adding the Details to Your Family Tree	Kemp
W122	Land Grants in North Carolina 1663-1960	Pruitt
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
W123	Handwriting Workshop	Boyd-Bragg
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
W124	Genealogical Proof Standard in Action: How to Build a Case When No Record States the Answer	Mills, CG CGL FNGS FASG
W125	The Five John Shacklefords of Virginia	Ward
W126	The WPA Era: What it Created for Genealogists	Stuart-Warren, CG
W127	Tracing Your Scots-Irish Ancestors	Milner
W128	Stories on a Sheet of Paper: Legislative Peitions at the Library of Virginia, 1776-1865	McDaid
W129	North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee	Seacord
W130	Research in Washington, D. C. ,From Home!	Clunies, CG
W131	Introduction to Topographic Maps	Bell, CG
W132	Clooz	Kerstens, CG, CGL
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
W133	International Society for Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) Gala Awards Dinner	Scott, CG
Thursday, May 17
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
T201	Digging Through Documents Word by Word	Mieszala, CG
T202	Virginia North Carolina Connections and Beyond	Brayton
T203	Tracking Pennsylvania Ancestors: Keys to Successful Research	Freilich, CG, CGL
T204	Did Your Ancestors Serve in the Old Wars? National Archives Military Records, 1784 to 1811	Melchiori, CG, CGL
T206	Southern Migration Paths	Suffridge
T207	Overview of NARA	Potter
T208	Google Is Not the Only Game In Town	Miller, CG
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
T205	Early Germans in Pennsylvania and Virginia: Two Colonies, Two Separate Traditions	Humphrey, CG  Boyd-Bragg
T209	Using Original Court Records: A Hands-On Workshop	Sherrill
T210	The Master Genealogist: Beginning/Intermediate	Velke
9:30 AM - 12:00 AM
T211	BCG Certification Seminar	Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL, FAS  Mieszala, CG  Powell, CG
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
T212	FFV's: First Felons of Virginia and the Indentured Servant System	Pollard  Pollard
T213	North Carolina: Land, Legends, and Legacy - Part I	Lowe, CG
T214	Railroad Records & Railroad History: Methods of Tracking	Stuart-Warren, CG
T215	Researching Your Irish Here Before Going There	Kerstens, CG, CGL
T216	Public Lands and Claims in the American State PApers	Heger, Ph.D.
T217	Getting More from Legacy Family Tree	Rasmussen
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
T219	Virginia Frontier Settlement and Migration	Little, CG
T220	North Carolina Land, Legends, and Legacy - Part 2	Lowe, CG
T221	But I Know He Got a Pension! Working the National Archives Pension Indexes	Melchiori, CG, CGL
T222	English Research: Eighteenth Century Sources and Indexes	Milner
T223	Traffic and Trade on the Colonial Coast	Haines, CG
T224	Stormy Weather: Weather Records	Heger, Ph.D.  Potter
T225	Honey, I Shrunk the Family	Miller, CG
T226	More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Postcards	Wolf
T227	Optimizing Your Computer at No Cost	Wylie  Wylie
12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
T228	Board for Certification of Genealogists Luncheon	Boyer, CG, CGL
T229	Friends of the Virginia State Archives Luncheon	Weisiger
T230	Genealogical Society of Utah/Family History Library Luncheon	Rencher, AG CG FIGRS FUGA
T231	NEHGS Luncheon: News From New England: What's New at the New England Historic Genealogical Society	Simons
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
T232	Historical Documentary Publications as Genealogical Sources	Bettag, CG, CGL
T233	Early Tidewater Virginia Records	Brayton
T234	South Carolina Research	Haines, CG
T235	Researching Your War of 1812 Ancestors	Scott, CG
T236	German Migrations to America	Knuthson
T237	Wagons West: The Great Wagon Road	Boyd-Bragg
T238	Denial of Citizenship	Connelly  Dougherty
T239	Creating & Using PDF Files	Hager, CG, CGL
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
T240	Mapping Workshop for Genealogists	Boyer, CG, CGL
T241	Genealogy....in WORD	Deal  Fox
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
T242	What Is the Standard of Proof in Genealogy?	Jones, Ph.D, CG, CGL, FAS
T243	Getting the Most from Virginia's Court Records: Order Books, Minute Books and Ended Causes