We can help you! Limited research is available at $20 per surname search. This will not be an in-depth search but will be limited to materials available in our library. Your Queries (50 words or less) will be published in our quarterly newsletter for $2 for nonmembers. Include your name, address and phone number on your request whether by mail or e-mail.

Our Next Meeting:

Saturday 10:00 A.M. June 16, 2012

Come to the First Baptist Church Educational Building "At the rear of the Brown House".

The Speaker will be Susan Sloan, the topic will be Genealogical Proof Standard. "Harnessing the Power of Indirect Evidence".

SPEAKER Biographical and professional information:

Susan Sloan, an Atlanta native, is a professional genealogist whose areas of concentration are teaching family history classes, conducting private lineage research, and preparing lineage applications. She also speaks to historical groups and lineage societies. In August 2010 she was a featured speaker at the Federation of Genealogical Societies National Conference, speaking on the topic of using Georgia’s land lotteries to prove family relationships.

Susan serves on the Board of several lineage societies and on the Daughters of the American Revolution State Society Speakers Staff. She is Chaplain of James Waldrop Chapter DAR in Fayetteville, and is Senior Registrar for the Button Gwinnett Society of the Children of the American Revolution.

Susan has authored articles in several journals including the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly, the Florida Genealogist, the Olde Mecklenburg County (NC) Genealogical Society Quarterly and the Rice Planter (newsletter for Old St. Bartholomew Chapter SC Genealogical Society).

Susan holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees from Georgia State University. She is a member of Georgia Professional Genealogists, the Association of Professional Genealogists, serves as Vice President of the Georgia Genealogical Society and Trustee of the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation. She is a past President of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

She and her husband, John, have lived in Fayetteville since 1982. They worship at White Oak Presbyterian Church in Newnan, where Susan volunteers to teach Sunday school and Vacation Bible School.