The Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society and the Tennessee Historical Society invite you to our annual genealogical seminar at the Brentwood Public Library (map below), Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. with registration beginning at 8:15 a.m.   Registration fee is $40 members, $45 for non-members which includes lunch and handouts. Walk-ins (on a space available basis) will be $60 with NO lunch or handouts  For your enjoyment, coffee, tea, water, pastries, chips and goodies will be available all day.  MTGS does NOT provide bottled water but you are welcome to bring your own or obtain it from the vending machine in the library. 

The Carolina backcountry is known for its genealogical roadblocks, pitfalls, record losses, and failure to create records in the first place. Mills presents strategies and sources for overcoming all these obstacles.

J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA, a professional genealogist, lecturer and author for over 40 years from Robertson County, TN, has held many offices with genealogical groups and professional organizations. He is an instructor for the IGHR (Samford University in Birmingham, AL), Director of the Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance (RIGS Alliance) and is an Instructor for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.

 

Learn the basic elements required upon the death of an ancestor. Understand how changes in law resulted in differing documentation (that can help us solve problems).

Charles A. Sherrill, M.A., M.L.S., is the State Librarian and Archivist of Tennessee, having been appointed to that position in January 2010.  He has a unique combination of skills as librarian, archivist and genealogist with 25 years experience as a library administrator. He has served as Editor of the Middle Tennessee Journal of History and Genealogy since 2002, teaches an on-line genealogy course for Jackson State Community College, and has written and edited more than 20 books of Tennessee genealogical records.   Prior to his current position, he was Director of the Brentwood Library, President of the Tennessee Library Association, President of MTGS, Director of the Cleveland Public Library in East Tennessee. A graduate of Ohio University and Case Western Reserve University, Chuck has a broad knowledge of Tennessee and southern research. In 2008 he authored the guide to “Research in Tennessee” for the National Genealogical Society. Other works include the two-volume “Tennessee Convicts: Early Records of the State Penitentiary” and “The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee.”