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The Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society is pleased to announce our 2010 Delmarva Genealogical Symposium.
It will be held at the Holiday Inn located on U.S. 13 South, Salisbury, MD on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010. Please contact the LDGS at ldgssalisbury@verizon.net for additional details and registration forms.
Alternatively, you can download and print a pdf registration form HERE.
| SCHEDULE | ||
| TIME | PRESENTATION | PRESENTED BY |
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Registration | Visit exhibits and vendors |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Welcome | Rob Hall President Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | LOCAL FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH | |
| Worcester County, Maryland Libraries Somerset County, Maryland Library Wicomico County, Maryland Library LDGS Library, Salisbury, Maryland |
Rob Hall | |
| Nabb Research Center, Salisbury, Maryland Blackwell Library at Salisbury University |
Patricia Taylor | |
| Accomack County, Virginia Library | Miles Barnes | |
| Westside Historical Society, Mardela Springs, Maryland | Sylvia Bradley | |
| Laurel, Delaware Library | Norma J. Fowler | |
| Adkins Historical and Museum Complex, Mardela Springs, Maryland Vienna Heritage Center, Vienna, Maryland |
Carolyn Adkins | |
| LDS Family History Center, Salisbury, Maryland | Pat Angell | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | BREAK | |
| 10:15 - 12:15 | Sussex Recovery - Reconstruction of Sussex County, Delaware Lands Using Early Maryland Patents in the Disputed Area of Sussex County, Delaware | John Lyon, John Polk and Mike Hitch |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Immigrants and Immigration to 17th Century Virginia and the Eastern Shore | G. Ray Thompson, PhD |
| 2:30 - 3:15 | Early Military Records | F. Edward Wright |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | BREAK | Visit vendors |
| 3:45 - 4:30 | Saxis Island, Virginia - First 200 Years of Land Ownership and Families 1666-1866 | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Questions | Exhibits will be open |
NOTE: John Lyon, John Polk and Mike Hitch have generously volunteered to be available to our attendees in 15-minute increments each for individual consultations. If you have been tracing a pre-Revolutionary tract of land by its title and it disappeared, you may be able to identify it through the technology used by these gentlemen.
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Saturday, 21-Aug-2010 19:51:56 MDT