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From: Tracey Converse <>
Subject: Arkansas Family History Association Press Release
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:35:47 -0600


Arkansas Family History Association
609 Colynwood Sherwood, Arkansas 72120 501-835-7502
http://www.rootsweb.com/~arfha


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"Growing Arkansas family histories one branch at a time."

February 4, 2000

For Immediate Release

Contact: Tracey Converse

501-835-7502

ARKANSAS' LARGEST FAMILY HISTORY ORGANIZATION
OFFERS GENEALOGY CLASSES

Little Rock-The Arkansas Family History Association recently announced a
lecture series featuring national and regional speakers on how to trace
your family tree. According to April 1999 issue of Time Magazine, family
history research is one of the leading subject on the Internet.

With the advent of the Internet, AFHA founder Desmond Walls Allen says,
"Reconnecting distant family relations is now easier than before. Many
folks find when they get on mailing lists that they have a distant cousin
also researching the family."

"Our website alone had 20,000 hits last month. Our staff of nationwide
volunteers have done over 200 genealogy lookups in the last month."

Designed to offer free membership and online lookups to people with
Internet access, AFHA has grown to the largest genealogical organization in
the state with over 1000 members worldwide.

During just the first three weeks of this year, the AFHA Internet Mailing
list saw over 700 messages posted about Arkansas history.

"The phenomenal growth shows an incredible interest of the people of
Arkansas to learn about their families past," said Allen.

Education is a major goal of this organization. With monthly meetings held
at the Central Arkansas Library's Main Branch, AFHA hopes to educate more
people in the fine art of research. Tickets to the classes are $12 in
advance and $10 for members. The class runs from 2-5 pm at the Main Library
in Little Rock at 100 Rock Street. Monies raised will be used to support
the Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas
Library.

The February 20 meeting will feature regional lecturer Tracey Converse. Her
topic will be "Surfing the Web for Cousins." She will provide insight into
how to find your family information on the web. What search engines to use
and how to share your information with others. Converse is also the web
master for the Central Arkansas Library System and has been on the web for
5 years and researching her family history since 1983.

Additional classes are slated for March 17, April 15, May 14, June 11 and
July 30. Topics will include Newspaper Research, Beginning Genealogy, Civil
War Records, and Native American Research.


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