FSGS Speakers Bureau

Jean S. Morris

Lecture Topics

• Welcome Friends: Quaker Research in Pennsylvania
• For Land's Sake: What You Always Wanted to Know about Pennsylvania's Land Records
• Brick Wall?: Alternative Theories for Locating "Lost" Ancestors
• They Came in Ships: 20th Century Emigration, Naturalization Records and Oaths of Allegiance in Pennsylvania
• Hidden Treasures in the Manuscript Collections in Western Pennsylvania
• Lost on Your Way Back to Pennsylvania
• Through a Looking Glass Darkly: Using the Published Pennsylvania Archives
• The French & Indian War in Western Pennsylvania 1754-1763
• Pennsylvania Quakers, Loyalists, Mennonites Who Migrated to Canada
• "O, Boatman Blow That Horn Again!" - Migrations by River and Canal; and How to Locate that River Ancestor
• Moved by the Spirit: Mapping Your Way Across Pennsylvania
• The Virginia-Pennsylvania Border Controversy 1747-1784
• Maryland-Delaware Border Dispute With Pennsylvania 1681-1760
• Connecticut-Pennsylvania Border Controversy and the Yankee-Pennamite Wars 1662-1783
• Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, Virginia & Ohio
• "Now Ye Jolly Wagoners!" The Old Pike/National Road in Pa.
• Pennsylvania's Tax Records: A Goldmine of Information
• Beyond Wills & Deeds: Courthouse Records in Pennsylvania
• Tribunes & Gazettes: Newspaper Research for Your Genealogy
• Born in Pennsylvania, but Where?
• Sensible Use of the Census
• Law Library Research in Pennsylvania
• Historical Bibliographies
• Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Research

Willing to travel up to 150 miles.

• FGS Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio - 1998
• Ohio Genealogical Society, Columbia, Ohio - 1998
• Hamilton County Ohio Chapter OGS, 1998
• Council of Volusia Genealogical Society, 1999
• Western PA Genealogical Society, Frequently
• Manasota Genealogical Society, Bradenton, Florida - 2005
• South Bay Genealogical Society, Sun City, Florida - 2005
• Halifax County Genealogical Society, Ormond Beach, Florida - 2006