AlaBenton Newsletter
May 3, 2012
Our April program presented by Danny McCarty was extremely well received and we are grateful to him for sharing the results of his interviews with veterans in connection with his successful writing projects.
Our May 5 program will be presented by Lana Floyd, who specializes in title searches. This should be of great benefit to genealogists because of the importance of land records in family history research.
You will no doubt realize that in recent years we have been meeting on the second Saturday in May because of scheduled downtown events which sometimes adversely impact parking for library patrons, but this year, having the meeting on the second Saturday would throw the meeting date into the Mother's Day weekend, and that is something we always try to avoid.
Yesterday, your editor received word that plans have been made for a Summer Workshop in July featuring Robert Scott "Bob" Davis of Wallace State Community College. Details have been slow in coming in, but they will be placed on the website as soon as they are received. It sounds like a very good one, so you'll want to mark Saturday, July 21 on your calendar for "Journey to the Bottom of the Barrel: What you can do when you hit a brick wall." The talks will run from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM, with time thrown in for lunch and breaks.
Be sure to keep checking the AlaBenton website for news and projects. And Kitty says "Keep chasing those dead relatives!"
Deanna Slappey, Editor