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FAMILY HISTORY MONTH PROPOSED IN US SENATE

Senator Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah has sent a letter to his United States Senate colleagues asking for their support when he proposes a bill designating the month of October as Family History Month. The bill, if passed, will urge President Bush to proclaim October Family History Month.

Genealogists are urged to e-mail each of their two United States senators and ask them to support Senator Hatch's bill. Texas' two senators are Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) senator@hutchison.senate.gov and Phil Gramm (R) phil_gramm@gramm.senate.gov . For other state's senators visit the website at http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state .cfm

SCHWEITZER IN CONROE

The Montgomery County Genealogical and historical Society will host a two day seminar on Friday August 10 and Saturday August 11. The seminar will be held in the Lone Star Convention Center, 9055 Airport (FM 1484) in Conroe.

Members of the MCGHS will offer four two hour classes on Friday from 1 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. While classes on Friday are free, preregistration is encouraged.

Speakers and topics will include: Cynthia Stubblefield Walker on First Steps of African American Research; Wendell Baker on African American Genealogy-The Historical View in Texas; Charles R. Hereford and Jean Huot Smoorenburg on Beginning Genealogy; and Melinda Cagle on Genealogical Sources-using Court Records.

On Friday night from 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. and all day Saturday, Dr. George C. Schweitzer of Knoxville, Tennessee will be the featured speaker. His topic on Friday will be Civil War Genealogy. On Saturday his talks will be Civil War Genealogy, Tracing Ancestors Back Across the Atlantic, Pennsylvania Immigration and Emigration and Frontier Religion and Its Genealogical Effects.

Schweitzer's period and military costumes and his first-person speaking style have made him one of the most popular genealogical lecturers in the country.

For more information and to register, visit the MCGHS website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmcghs/index.htm , email mcghs@yahoo.com or call the genealogical library at 936-788-8363 extension 260 during business hours. The classes given by society members are free. There is an admission fee to those talks delivered by Schweitzer.

SURFING THE INTERNET

Mic Barnette will lead a Surfing the Internet for Genealogy class at Houston Community College's 1681 Cartwright Missouri City campus. This class is a live three hour virtual tour of some of the best genealogical websites on the Internet. It will be held Thursday July 26 from 6 to 9 P.M. For more information and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539.

ONLINE GENEALOGY CLASS

Houstonian Emily Anne Croom will be teaching a free online introductory genealogy course on the Barnes and Noble University website. The class will consist of eight lessons taught over a five week time-frame beginning August 7 and ending September 14.

Croom is the author of four popular genealogical books, Unpuzzling Your Past; The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook; The Genealogist's Companion and Source Book and The Sleuth Book.

For more information on the class and to register visit the B&N website at http://barnesandnobleuniversity.com .

NEWS FROM THE BOOKSHELF

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack has published an excellent book to help family history researchers organize their ever expanding current and future collection of paper. Organizing Your Family History Search: Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research is available for $16.99 plus shipping from F&W Publishers, 1507 Dana Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45207.

This book explains good, low cost and efficient ways to organize and preserve information, documents and other objects one might locate or inherit. There are tips for planning and organizing for research trips, major research projects or just a trip to the library or courthouse.

The Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 has recently completed reprinting five important volumes of bibliographies listing genealogies held in the United States Library of Congress through 1986.

The five volume set is available from the publisher and sells for $395. It consists of the following volumes: Two volumes of Genealogies in the Library of Congress, which were originally published in 1972; Supplement 1972-1976 To Genealogies in the Library of Congress; Second Supplement 1976-1986 to Genealogies in the Library of Congress; and A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress published in 1981

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