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NCGS FALL CONFERENCE - Register Now!
September 18-19 (Friday-Saturday)

McKimmon Center, Raleigh NC and Streamed Online

22 lectures in person, ALL livestreamed, and ALL recorded for viewing afterwards! Plus 10 Bonus videos! ALL for under $100 !

Register NOW at https://ncgenealogy.org/fall2026

FEATURING Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL, FUGA. You probably know her as The Legal Genealogist®, but she also has deep roots in North Carolina which gives her great insight into researching North Carolina genealogy.

LECTURES FROM 25 GENEALOGY EXPERTS INCLUDE
- African American research
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in genealogy
- Cemeteries
- Church records
- Civil war research
- Colonial Records
- DNA and genealogy
- Early North Carolina laws
- Hiring a Professional Genealogist
- Land records
- Online research
- Tax records
- Voting records
- Women and the law

SPECIAL TRACK – AMERICA 250 NC
Lectures on topics including researching Revolutionary War ancestors, the Battle of Kings Mountain, and the Liberty Point Resolves.

SPECIAL TRACK – NC RESEARCH FACILITIES
Representatives from major repositories and collections for NC research will discuss their holdings: ECU, State Archives, State Library, and UNC Chapel Hill.

HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS (In person, extra cost)
- Google Maps
- Practical ChatGPT and AI
- Smarter Searching in FamilySearch and Ancestry
- U.S. Census

SPEAKERS presenting in person: Sara E. Campbell, Sarah Whitley Carrier, Katie Crickmore, Jennifer Crowder Daugherty, Linda Debe, Jennifer Dunn, Carol Genung, Kate Penney Howard, Ayo Heinegg Magwood, Sunny Jane Morton, Cheri Hudson Passey, Diane L. Richard, Rhonda Roederer, Craig R. Scott, CGA®, FUGA, Larry W. Thomas, Ari Wilkins, FTxSGS, and Taylor Wolford. Recorded video only: Eleanor O. Brinsko, MLIS, Kathy Kirkpatrick, J. Mark Lowe, FUGA, Emily Coffman Richardson, Troy Valos, and Pam Vestal.

32 lectures for only $99! $89 for NCGS members, Lunches $10 and $20

https://ncgenealogy.org/fall2026

I’m 100% dedicated

✨Researcher and Historian✨, Ja’el Gordon will be presenting next month in Pointe Coupee parish. Ja’el is an expert in Antebellum research and history especially in uncovering the stories of the enslaved Africans and African Americans in the United States.

You can also learn more about Ja’el’s amazing work at https://canvasrebel.com/meet-jael-gordon/

The details are on the flier below. 👇

Volunteer opportunity

A nearly 40-mile stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 in Pointe Coupee Parish has been designated the Ernest J. Gaines Memorial Highway in honor of the internationally acclaimed author and University of Louisiana at Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus.

It represents the latest in a long list of accolades for Gaines, who died in 2019 at age 86, and his fiction, which has been published in many languages, made into movies, claimed prestigious literary awards and earned the writer a commemorative stamp that was issued by U.S. Postal Service.

The location for the memorial highway was selected randomly. It sits near where Gaines was born in 1933, on Riverlake Plantation in Oscar, La. – the region he immortalized in works such as “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “A Lesson Before Dying.”

Read more online at https://bit.ly/4wOhfb4 and follow The Ernest J. Gaines Center at UL Lafayette on Facebook.