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Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] Frederick, MD Nov 8 Conference Registration
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:07:56 EDT

Please excuse any duplications between mail lists, and that this is a lengthy
posting to allow for the speaker biographical sketches at the end.

As a reminder - the Frederick County Genealogical Society is presenting a
full-day conference at the Frederick Community College Conference Center on
November 8 - Frederick, MD.

Due to the recent storms and various computers and phone difficulties, the
extension of the pre-registration discount has been changed from Oct 1 to Oct
15.

Deadline for pre-registration discount and having your name and surnames in
the program book will be Oct 15.

The following is conference information - please don't miss this opportunity
in one of the greatest towns in Western Maryland for research and recreation.
Hope to see you there -

Pepper Scotto, Pres FRECOGS

website for registration form and information:
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/frecogs/index.htm">http://members.aol.com/frecogs/index.htm</A>;

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Date of Conference: Nov 8, 2003 8:00 am check-in

Place: FCC Conference Center - 7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD

Pre- Registration fees include lunch, refreshments, and extensive handouts.
All participants will have table seating, but number of seats are limited.
Handicapped accessible. Registrations after Oct 15 will not include lunch.

Registrations by October 15 will be discounted to $40.00, thereafter $50.00.


After October 15, please call to verify available seating - and don't forget
you will have to provide your own lunch, fast food restaurants are about 2
miles away.

Vendor space is still available.

For more information and registration,
call Chairman: Nancy Thrasher Cherry 301 572-4406 (),
or Pepper Scotto 301-834-9907 ()

or the Frederick County Genealogical Society Website for information and
registration form.

http://members.aol.com/frecogs/index.htm

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Extracted from the Press Release:

Family History "Reality" Genealogy Conference - November 8

Social history can be called the study of our past from the perspective of
the men and women involved, examing the roles they have played in the making of
their community from kitchen to the president's office. Interpreting history
from 'the bottom up" involves all the inhabitants of the community.

Interpreting the reality of the affect history of community on our own family
history leads to both finding our hidden family ancestors and developing a
better understanding of their lives. For family history and genealogy, it is
research from the bottom up to find who were our ancestors, their gender roles
and ethnicity.

In response to this approach, Frederick County Genealogical Society of
Frederick County, Maryland will be presenting a full-day family history conference
on November 8 at the Frederick Community College Conference Center. This
program "Reality Genealogy" centers on the relationship between social history and
family history and the methods in using one discipline to understand the other
- the reality of history.

Four separate lectures will be presented along with the opportunity to meet
and talk to other family and social historians in this region. Vendors,
authors, and other genealogical and historical organizations will be on hand with
information and items for sale, including Willowbend Books, the country's
largest genealogical book store.

The conference is presented for both the novice and experienced historian,
centering on various approaches to effective research in the following sessions:


1 - Linking Social History and Genealogy - The "Faceless" Female Ancestor
Example. Ms. Pat Gracie from New Market, MD

2 - Research Project Strategies - Genealogy in Uniform: Military Research a
the U. S. National Archives. Mr. Tim Reese from Burkittsville, MD

3 - Offspring Survival Manual - Preparing Lifetime's Mountains of Papers for
Next of Kin. Mr. David Rubincam from Lanham, MD

4 - Using the Internet for Research Aid - What is New for Central Maryland.
Mr. Ralph Riggin from Carroll County, MD.

Conference will be at the Frederick Community College Conference Center 7932
Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD in cooperation with the Catoctin Center for
Regional Studies. Facilities are handicap accessible. Lunch will be provided
at the conference site.
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Conference Biographical Sketches - Speakers:

Pat Gracie from New Market with her illustrated talk on Linking Social
History and Genealogy - The "Faceless" Female Ancestor Example.

Pat Gracie is a resident of New Market in Frederick County and has been a
practicing genealogist for close to thirty years. She says that being a
genealogist was probably unavoidable as she grew up in Virginia on the sites of several
Civil War battlefields and majored in history at the University of Richmond.
She spent almost four decades as an analyst, writer and strategic planner for
the Social Security Administration before succumbing to the lure of
retirement and more time to travel and do research. Pat's genealogy related memberships
currently include the National and Maryland Genealogical Societies and the
Catonsville and Frederick County Societies.
Pat's researched family lines go back to the 1630s in New England, to the
1640s in Virginia and to colonial North Carolina, to the forests of northern
Pennsylvania, through various parts of the US mid-west and west, to England and
Ireland and to Germany. Like all of us, she's encountered a few lines that
seemingly ended in swamps and brick walls so she's learned a lot about finding her
way through the mud and over or under the walls and fences.
Knowing social history of an area has proved important to her searches. She
will be using a case study to illustrate search techniques she has found useful
in searching for ancestors; particularly those she calls Faceless Females.


Tim Reese from Burkittsville will present "Research Project Strategies-
Genealogy in Uniform: Military Research at the U.S. National Archives."

Service in the Armed Forces greatly expanded the paper trail for many family
lines, notably the Civil War-era. Avenues for research in service, pension,
and organizational record groups will be outlined. Being the primary repository
of American military records, the vast holdings of the National Archives can
be daunting at first sight.
Mr. Reese will lay out a basic road map for navigating this complex resource
in conjunction with readily available published sources. Simple and long-term
strategies will be discussed for optimal use of research time within Archives
protocols -- the "Shock and Awe" of Reality Genealogy in the Federal
bureaucracy.
Timothy J. Reese served eighteen years on the staff of the Smithsonian
Institution's Museum of American History. Specializing in regional Civil War
history, he is the author of Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864 (1990),
Sealed With Their Lives: The Battle for Crampton's Gap (1998), and Written in
Stone: Brief Biographies of the Journalists, Photographers, and Artists Whose
Names Appear on
the War Correspondents Memorial Arch, Gathland State Park (2000). A
forthcoming study will soon appear entitled High-Water Mark: The 1862 Maryland
Campaign in Strategic Perspective. He has also written numerous articles on the
military and civilian history of the lower Catoctin Valley appearing in Maryland
Historical Magazine, Blue & Gray Magazine, and Maryland Genealogical Society
Bulletin.
Mr. Reese has been a periodic volunteer and interpreter at Gathland State
Park for twenty-seven years, a Burkittsville resident for seventeen, historical
interpreter (seasonal) for South Mountain State Battlefield, and acts as the
primary author/historian for the Crampton's Gap Battlefield. His work has
embraced extensive use of primary sources including military, deed, census, and
genealogical records in many states. Mr. Reese has used the facilities of the
National Archives for thirty years and is well acquainted with its revelations,
rewards and pitfalls.


David Rubincam from Lanham, MD will give guidance with his "Offspring
Survival Manual - Preparing lifetime's Mountains of Papers for Next of Kin."

What it's like to be a genealogist's son. Don't expect your family to know
what to do with your research! What you should do keep from turning off your
offspring and having your boxes end up in the dumpster. How to provide for the
disposition of your books and research; wording your will; plus other handy
tips to keep your children's lives from being a living hell will be offered.
David Rubincam is the third of three sons of the late Milton Rubincam.
Milton was, at various times, president of the National Genealogical Society,
editor of the NGS Quarterly, president of the American Society of Genealogists,
and chairman of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. He also wrote the
book PITFALLS IN GENEALOGY. When Milton died in 1997 he left behind 30,000
pages of material on his own family alone.
Mr. Rubincam attended the University of Maryland, where he got his B.S. in
1970, his M.S. in 1972, and Ph.D. in 1973, all in physics, a field mercifully
remote from genealogy. He holds the first known patent on e-books, granted in
1979. For the past 25 years he has worked as a research scientist for NASA at
the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He has published 40
papers in the scientific journals, plus a few scattered articles in magazines.
His latest popular article, about the planet Mars, will appear in OUTRE
magazine for May or June of 2003. Presently he struggles with topics concerning
meteorites and asteroids, as well as ice ages on Earth. He and his wife Eloise
live in Lanham, Maryland.
David did not know how to spell "genealogy" until 1997. One of these years
he expects to be through wrestling with his father's papers.


Ralph Riggin from Carroll County will give an illustrated talk on "Using the
Internet for as Research Aid - What is New for Central Maryland."

Ralph A. Riggin started his genealogical studies over 23 years ago, primarily
focused on his paternal lineage from the Delmarva Peninsula. After numerous
years of research, in 1996 he started his own web site called goldenlyon.com.
The site contains gleaned information from archives, libraries, courthouses,
graveyards and other family members from the MD, DE and VA region. To date he
has had over 40,000 visitors to his site, and had over 1,500 email queries. In
summer of 2002, he was asked to be a speaker at the Maryland Genealogical
Symposium in Salisbury, on Genealogy on the Internet.
After contributing to a number of books over the years pertaining primarily
to Maryland or Eastern Shore genealogy, he did some editing for the Colonial
Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
when he was asked to join ranks with F. Edward Wright to author for the
series in 2003, he released his first formal publication for the series, Colonial
Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Volume 15.
To date, he has collaborated with some of Maryland's most revered
genealogists, as Ed Wright, and Vernon L. Skinner Jr., and also with many amateur
genealogists to put together lineages, which he either has put into print or displays
on his web site. Ralph is currently working on Volume 17 in the same series,
which hopefully will be released before the end of this year.
Ralph is a native of Montgomery Co., works in Frederick Co. and lives in
Carroll Co. and is honored to be invited as one of the guest speakers of this
year's Frederick Co. Genealogical Conference.
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Please excuse the lengthy posting - just wanted everyone to know what the
conference was all about.

Pepper Scotto

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