Monthly Archives: September 2014

2014 Joint Fall Conference Presented by the Virginia (VGS) and Augusta County (ACGS) Genealogical Societies

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‘History, Records and Migrations’ is the theme of the Fall Conference taking place on October 17 and 18 in Waynesboro, VA (Friday) and Staunton, VA (Saturday).

On Friday from 9 am to 2 pm, staff at the Waynesboro Public Library will be on hand to offer ‘Guided Research’. From 2 pm to 3 pm, Dorothy A. Boyd-Bragg, Ph.D. will present “In the Beginning, Augusta County, Virginia, was [Almost] Everything”.

On Saturday the conference moves to the Holiday Inn Staunton Conference Center. Saturday’s events run from 9 am to 4:30 pm with registration beginning at 8:30 am.

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS will present four sessions: “Before It Was Augusta”, “West of the Blue Ridge: Augusta’s Chancery Court Records”, “Frontier Settlement: The Virginia Land Office and Its Records”, and “Migration Trails and Settlement Clusters”.

Nancy Sorrells will speak about “Weaving the Fabric of a New Nation”.

For more information, visit the Virginia Genealogical Society website at vgs.org.

September Meeting, Saturday, September 13, 2014 & Fall Schedule

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September Meeting, Saturday, September 13, 2014

Margaret O’Bryant, Librarian at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, will share with us the materials available for genealogical research at the society’s library. The historical society is a non-profit educational organization that seeks to study, preserve, and promote the history of the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

October Meeting, Saturday, October 11, 2014

James Langhorne, will present his book, “The Virginia Langhornes: a History.” The book documents all the descendants of Capt. John Langhorne (who came to Virginia about 1668), through the first generation born in the 20th century. The family estate, Mirador, is in western Albemarle County. He will have copies of his book available.

Family History Conference, November 8, 2014

The CVGA will not meet in November. Instead the association will co-sponsor the Family History Conference which will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Airport Road. See the website at: cvillefamilyhistorycenter.org.