2008 Conference Sessions

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
12:00pm-5:00pm	T-1	Chapter President’s Meeting		2129
12:00pm-1:30pm	T-2	New Member/First-Time Conference Attendee Orientation	Carolyn C Rowe	2112
4:00pm-8:00pm		Conference Registration		Front 2100
7:00pm-8:00pm	T-3	State of the Society Meeting	Khadijah Matin	2100/2102/2104
8:15pm-9:30pm	T-4	Reception		Lower Level Concourse

Friday, 7 November 2008

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-8:30am	F-1	Chapter Presidents Breakfast and Meeting		2129
7:30am-8:30am	F-2	Breakfast Buffet		Chesapeake
8:30am-4:00pm		Conference Registration		Front 2100
8:45am-9:45am	F-3	OPENING PLENARY		2100/2102/2104
10:00am-11:00am		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - I
	F-4	The Wisdom of Our Years: Stories of African American Utahns, The Making of the Documentary and the Impact on the Community	Phyllis J. Caruth	2112
	F-5	Migration Patterns and DNA: An Alternative to Locate African Origins	Jim Ison	2109
	F-6	Shaking Your Family Tree – Beginners Workshop	Linda Dennis	2117
	F-7	The Life (and diary) of Michael Shiner: A 19^th Century Black Man Looks at Washington, DC	Leslie Morales	2110
11:30am-12:45pm	F-8	Authors Luncheon & Book Signing		Chesapeake
1:00pm-2:00pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - II
	F-9	Eyewitness: Virginia WPA Slave Narrative – Using An Oral History to Uncover Family Ties	Char McCargo Bah	2112
	F-10	The Great Migration: Goin’ to the Promised Land, Chicago	Eric Smith	2109
	F-11	Finding My African American Roots Without DNA Testing – Benefiting from the Documented Genealogy of Another Family	Irving R. Smith	2117
	F-12	Online Indexing Project	Cherie Bush	2110
2:15pm-3:15pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - III
	F-13	Chillin’ While Colored: Places of Leisure of 19^th Century African Americans	Patsy Fletcher	2112
	F-14	What’s New at Family Search.org?	Karen Jepson and Cherie Bush	2109
	F-15	An Oral History of the African American Community of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania	C. Bernard Ruffin	2117
	F-16	Genealogy 101: Getting Started, Managing Your Time and Files	Shelley Murphy	2110
3:15pm-3:30pm		Break
3:30pm-4:30pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - IV
	F-17	Free or Not: The African American Jackson Family from Pre-Revolution to the 20^th Century	Char McCargo Bah	2112
	F-18	The Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad	Jim Ison	2109
	F-19	African American Genealogy 102	Shelley Murphy	2117
	F-20	Oak Hill: A Portrait of Black Life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa	Eric Smith	2110
4:45pm-6:45pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - V
	F-21	Finding and Using African American Newspapers Limited to 25 attendees	Timothy Pinnick	2109
7:00pm-9:00pm	F-22	Sharing Dinner		Chesapeake

Saturday, 8 November 2008

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-8:30am	S-1	Chapter Presidents Breakfast and Meeting		2129
7:30am-8:30am	S-2	Breakfast Buffet		Chesapeake
8:00am-Noon		Conference Registration		Front 2100
10:00am-11:00am		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - I
	S-3	The Aberdeen Project: One Brick at a Time	Veronica Davis and Catherine S. Howard	2112
	S-4	Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records	Reginald Washington	2109
	S-5	African American Soldiers, Patriots & Martyrs in the American Revolutionary War	Wilhelmena Kelly	2117
	S-6	Locating Slave Owners – It is in the Details	Char McCargo Bah	2110
11:30am-12:45pm	S-7	Authors Luncheon & Book Signing		Chesapeake
1:00pm-2:00pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - II
	S-8	The Church Archives: The Final Frontier for African American Genealogy	Veronica Davis and Catherine S. Howard	2112
	S-9	Using Court Records to Uncover the Lives of Slaves	Robyn Smith	2109
	S-10	Exodusters: The Beginnings of Black Migration from the South	Damani Davis	2117
	S-11	African American Physicians in Medicine in the Civil War Era	Robert G. Slawson	2110
2:15pm-3:15pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - III
	S-12	The Chicago Movement of 1966	Eric Smith	2112
	S-13	From Genes to Genealogy: Finding Your Identity	Kareem Washington	2109
	S-14	Family Reunion Planning: More Than A Picnic	Nathania Branch-Miles	2117
	S-15	Using Genealogy to Teach African American History	Harris Bailey	2110
3:15pm-3:30pm		Break
3:30pm-4:30pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - IV
	S-16	Breaking the Silence, Ending the Exile: How the District of Columbia’s African American Deaf Children Won the Right to be Educated in the City Where They Lived	Sandra Jowers-Barber	2112
	S-17	An Outline of the African Educational Experience in Louisiana: The History of One Man’s Journey to Make a Difference	Beverly Woods	2109
	S-18	Where Do We Go From Here?	Millie L. McGhee and Albert E. Young	2117
	S-19	Fort Mose: First Free Black U.S. Settlement	Madalin Price	2110
7:30pm-9:00pm	S-20	Banquet		Chesapeake/Ft. McHenry
9:30-Midnight	S-21	Dance		Chesapeake/Ft. McHenry

Sunday, 9 November 2008

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-10:00am	Su-1	Breakfast Buffet		Founders

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Standing Tall on the Shoulders of Our Ancestors:
30th Annual Conference of Research and Discovery

6-9 November 2008
University of Maryland Marriott Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, Maryland

Standing Tall on the Shoulders of Our Ancestors: 30th Annual Conference of Research and Discovery

6-9 November 2008 University of Maryland Marriott Inn and Conference Center Adelphi, Maryland

Standing Tall on the Shoulders of Our Ancestors:
30th Annual Conference of Research and Discovery

6-9 November 2008
University of Maryland Marriott Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, Maryland