Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Annual Fall Seminar

• Lesser Used Genealogical Records
• Probate and Land records Research
• Finding Substitutes for Birth and Death Records
• Bridging the Atlantic: Finding Ancestral Homes of Immigrants

Lloyd Bockstruck has been with the Dallas (TX) Public Library since 1973 and currently serves as the Supervisor of the Genealogy Section. From 1969 to 1971 he served in the Missionary Journeyman Program, of the Southern Baptist Convention, with assignment to the Baptist Mission of East Africa, where he served as teacher and librarian in the Mombassa (Kenya) Baptist High School. He has been on the faculty of IGHR since 1974 and was the first recipient of the Institute’s Outstanding Alumni Award.

Mr. Bockstruck is the author of Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers, Genealogical Research in Texas, Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments, and Family Tree: Weekly Newspaper columns from the Dallas Morning News 1991 – 1996. He received the Award of Merit from the NGS in 1982 and was named a Fellow of the society in 1993. In 1999, he was named the first recipient of the "Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship" offered by Scholarly Resources and the National Genealogical Society.In 2003, Mr. Bockstruck was recognized by the North East Texas Library System with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, he was named an Honorary Member of the Hereditary Society Community. Bockstruck is active in numerous lineage societies and is featured in Who’s Who in America among others. His genealogical interests include Southside Virginia, colonial America, and Germany.Topics:

• Lesser Used Genealogical Records
  For those genealogists whose law abiding ancestors conformed to the prevailing religious practice, followed a trade, rented land, lived on the frontier and eluded the tax man and avoided military service it’s difficult to learn their identity. Learn how/what alternatives exist which you have not tried.
• Probate and Land Records Research
  Land records are the major record group for genealogists since they existed prior to vital records. They are the most likely to have survived than any other record group. Land was a prize possession and its descent among the heirs for generations is closely intertwined with probate records.
• Finding Substitutes for Birth & Death Records
  Birth and death records are some of the first records the beginning genealogist utilizes. These life events generate paper records and provide clues for linking a child to his parents, identifying a place of origin, discovering a maiden name, etc. If they are not available the genealogist must rely on alternative sources for the answers.
• Bridging the Atlantic: Finding Ancestral Homes of Immigrants
  Genealogists establish four goals when seeking their ancestors:
• Identifying ancestors
• Locating all of their Revolutionary War ancestors
• Locating the colonists or immigrants who established the family in North America
• Identify the ancestral home in the Old World – which is dependent on the ethnicity and time of arrival of the immigrant.  Strategies and techniques will differ from those arriving in the colonial period and the federal period.

• Registration: 8:00 - 8:45am
• Lectures Begin: 9:00am
• Lunch Break: 11:40am - 1pm
• Lectures Continue: 1pm - 4pm

Registration:Register by October 6, 2006, $25.00
After October 6th, $30.00
Luncheon by Elks, $10.00
For the luncheon you must pay in advance to reserve a spot.
Lunch will be a soup, sandwich and salad bar. Make checks payable to TPCGS and mail* to:Marie Hayden, Registrar
4010 No. 36th St.
Tacoma, WA 98407

*You must enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope or you will not receive your confirmation!  For further details on the conference, see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~watpcgs/seminar.htm.