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Countdown to Jamboree 2008<\/strong>, sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society, is 25 days!<\/p>\n

My topics:<\/strong>
\n Friday<\/strong> 1:30 to 2:30 pm American Church Records<\/strong>: How to Locate, Search, and Use the many kinds of church records available in print, on microfilm, on CD-Rom, and on the internet. Religious belief dictates the records kept and preserved by congregations. This session will show how to search these records for hard-to-find ancestors\u2013a NEW research strategy and how to use \u201cinternal evidence links\u201d to trace and prove family relationships.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong> 9:30 to 10:30 am Tracing a Southern Pedigree<\/strong>: NEW search strategies in little-known and overlooked sources to help you by-pass burned courthouses, gaps in vital records, and ancestors always on the move. Also discussed new finding aids, state-wide indexes, and special research projects that enable you to locate where your ancestors settled: VA into NC, TN, KY, AR and on to California.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong> 11:00 to 12:00 pm Tracing Your Revolutionary War Ancestors<\/strong>: Traditional Sources like DAR applications and patriots, pension and service records have new access. Newly discovered records that detail military service 1775-1782 like files of military hospitals and prison ships, rejection rolls, petitions submitted to the Continental Congress\u2013where are these records, how do you search them? Also included: mercenaries who supplemented the troops\u2013Hessians, French, British, and Canadian patriots, \u201cBlack Watch,\u201d enlightened Loyalists\u2013where are their records?<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong> 4:30 to 5:30 pm British Migration to America Before 1850<\/strong>: Documenting \u201coriginal\u201d settlers to New England, New Netherlands, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Special attention is focused on the Irish, the German, the \u201cbrides,\u201d the indentured servants, and British-sponsored religious migrations. Special immigration projects will be highlighted.<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong> 1:30 to 2:30 pm Solving Tough Problems with Cemetery Records<\/strong>: family relationships, migration patterns, occupations, economic status, naming patterns, and national origins\u2013these and more emerge from cemeteries and their evidence. This session includes a colored slide presentation on ethnic cemeteries which I shot shot on location.<\/p>\n

Please note that I have completely revised and updated my presentations just for this conference–I will demonstrate my very latest, most successful, and totally powerful research techniques!<\/strong> You won’t want to miss this three-day event. I usually have extra handouts too–stuff that I discovered after the syllabus materials were submitted and I want to share with you.<\/p>\n

And I am bringing all of my new publications<\/strong> including 2 new volumes for New York<\/strong> research and 2 new volumes for Virginia<\/strong>. With up-dated and revised editions of all my genealogy research bundles. Watch this blog for contents of these new publications. You can also order online using your Paypal account.<\/p>\n

Jamboree Exhibitor Profile – Arlene Eakle’s Genealogical Institute, Table 121 in the Vendor Hall:<\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a>Table 121
\nArlene Eakle, Ph.D.
\nThe Genealogical Institute<\/span>
\nP.O. Box 129
\nTremonton UT 84337
\narlene@arleneeakle.com
\nwww.arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n

Arlene Eakle’s Genealogical Institute, Inc. opened in 1972:<\/p>\n

For the Busy:<\/strong><\/p>\n