Family Historians - Set Aside 22 March 2003

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, CG, FUGA will present an all-day seminar on Family History at The Cooperidge, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park on March 22, 2003. This will be the eleventh annual all-day seminar sponsored by the Sonoma County Genealogical Society.

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist and a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association. She specializes in writing narrative family histories, and she is the author of Organizing Your Family History Search (a Book of the Month Club selection), A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant and Ethnic Ancestors, A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors, The Genealogy Sourcebook, Italian-American Family History: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Your Heritage, and numerous articles. She is a contributing editor and feature writer for Family Tree Magazine , and she also writes a quarterly column for Reunions Magazine, the FGS Forum, and Speak!, the newsletter of the Genealogical Speakers Guild. A frequent lecturer at local, regional, and national genealogical conferences, Sharon is a charter member and the immediate past president of the Genealogical Speakers Guild. With social historian Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Sharon teaches courses on family history research and writing at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs and an online course in personal/family memoir writing for Writer’s Digest Online School . Sharon is the editor of Betterway Genealogy Books, and she is also a consulting editor for Newbury Street Press, the publishing imprint of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. She serves on the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s History Advisory Committee and the National Genealogical Society’s Family Health History Committee. She is a former editor of SPEAK! the newsletter of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, for which she received APG’s Grahame Thomas Smallwood Jr. Award of Merit (1990) and the Federation of Genealogical Societies’ Award of Merit (1992).

Topics, in order of presentation, will be:

• Flesh on the Bones: Putting Your Ancestors into Historical Perspective



• From Yawner to Page Turner: Writing A Compelling Family History



• The Silent Woman: Bringing a Name to Life



• Cryptic Clues in the Bone Yard

Pre-registration is highly recommended to reserve your seat for this event. Price of admission for pre-registration is $18 for members of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society, $22 for non-members. Admission at the door, beginning at 8 a.m., will be $25. Send your reservations to Registrar Audrey Phillips, 96 Eastside Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954-3609. Questions about registration can also be directed to her by phone at 707-763-4492. Other questions about the seminar should be directed to Lois Nimmo, program chairman, e-mail <LoisNim@aol.com> or phone 707-537-1684.

Downloadable Pre-Registration Form