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From: "Anna Price" <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] Reading Colonial Handwriting
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:52:02 -0600


All of us struggle with reading original documents in Colonial Handwriting!

George Ballentine will share clues and techniques on Reading Colonial
Handwriting. Overhead transparencies will be used during the presentation to
help us learn. Handouts will be available, also. George Ballentine will
delight Austin Genealogical Society (TX) members again at the March 26
meeting. Last May he spoke on South Carolina Records. Our members truly
enjoyed hearing his presentation and learned so much while basking in his
congenial style.

George Ballentine is a longtime genealogist, webmaster of the award-winning
West Bell Genealogical Society web page, newsletter editor, beginners'
seminar chair (March 23 in Killeen). He has been doing genealogical research
as a hobby for 22 years, the majority of which has been focused in South
Carolina. He is retired from the US Army and is a Texas certified secondary
school teach in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration.
He is a member of the S.C. Archives & History Center and the Charleston
Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society, and a member of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans based on his S.C. ancestor's Confederate service.
Additionally, he is in the process of organizing a new genealogical society
for Copperas Cove, TX.

The Austin Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 7:30
PM at Highland Park Baptist Church located at 5206 Balcones Drive (Mopac
exit at FM 2222). For additional information call Carol Lutz at
512-345-1422 or visit our website http://www.austintxgensoc.org/ Visitors
welcome - come enjoy our friend and neighbor, George Ballentine!

Austin Genealogical Society represent Travis county, TX. AGS publishes the
Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly four times a year, monthly newsletter,
sponsors an annual seminar in August, bus trip to a regional genealogical
library, Lifetime Learning genealogy classes. Current projects include
Travis county cemetery transcriptions, 1850 Travis county census
transcription, 1920 census acquisition fund to benefit the Texas State
Library & Archives. Details of these projects and events may be found on the
web site.

Anna Houston Price
AGS Publicity Chair
Austin, TX




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