2011 Conference Sessions

SESSION SCHEDULE

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
12:00pm-5:00pm	T-1	Chapter President’s Meeting		Riverside East
12:00pm-1:30pm	T-2	New Member/First-Time Conference Attendee Orientation		TBA
4:00pm-8:00pm		Conference Registration		2nd Floor Lobby
7:00pm-8:00pm	T-3	State of the Society Meeting		Salon B
8:15pm-9:30pm	T-4	Reception		Salon D

Friday, 23 September 2011

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-8:45am	F-1	Chapter Presidents/New Chapter Officers Meeting		Riverside East
7:30am-8:45am		Breakfast Buffet		Salon D
9:00am-4:00pm		Conference Registration		2nd Floor Lobby
9:00am-10:00am	F-2	OPENING PLENARY “Reclaiming Our Past to Preserve Our Future”	The Honorable Linda Pondexter Chesterfield	Salon B
10:00am-10:10am		Break
10:10am-11:10am	F-3	GENERAL SESSION Ties that Bind - Personal Reflections	Dr. Wilbert Gaines	Salon B
11:10am-11:20am		Break
11:20am-12:20pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - I
	F-4	When Freedom Came - Telling the Stories of the First Days of Freedom During the Civil War	Angela Walton-Raji	Salon A
	F-5	Beginning African American Research	Sandra Joseph	Salon B
	F-6	Ties that Bind the Biggs Family to the Civil War	Mary Swift	Salon C
	F-7	Ties that Bind: The Black Experience at the University of Arkansas from Silas Hunt to Today!	Dr. Lonnie Williams	Riverside West
12:30pm-1:45pm	F-8	Authors Luncheon & Book Signing		Salon D
2:00pm-3:00pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - II
	F-9	Who Can Be an Oral History Interviewer?	Richard Bullard	Salon A
	F-10	Countrymen Coming: Captive Africans Sold by Order of Jamaica's Vice Admiralty Court 1790-1807	Kofi R. Boukman Barima, PhD	Salon B
	F-11	Family Search: An Extraordinary Research Tool	Cherie Bush	Salon C
	F-12	African American Architects in Arkansas	Kwendeche	Riverside West
3:00pm-3:15pm		Break
3:15pm-4:15pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - III
	F-13	An Unusual Partnership Brings a Community's School Desegregation History to Light	Racquelia Kilby & Phoebe Kilby	Salon A
	F-14	Research on the U.S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison	Bob O'Conner	Salon B
	F-15	Census Detectives: Internet Resources for Finding Missing Persons	Alice Harris	Salon C
	F-16	Treasures of the Arkansas Studies Institute	Rhonda Stewart	Riverside West
4:15pm-4:30pm		Break
4:30pm-5:30pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - IV
	F-17	Black Americana Collection: Artifacts from the 1800's	Archie Moore, Jr.	Salon A
	F-18	Slave Surveys: Keeping Electronic Research Logs	Sherri Camp	Salon B
	F-19	D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival): Will Your Family be Prepared?	Tamela Tenpenny-Lewis	Salon C
	F-20	The Mosaic Templars of America: An Historic Overview	Dr. John W. Graves	Riverside West
5:30pm-7:00pm		Break
7:00pm-9:00pm	F-21	Sharing Dinner		Salon D

Saturday, 24 September 20110

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-8:45am	S-1	Chapter Presidents/New Chapter Officers Meeting		Edgehill
7:30am-8:45am		Breakfast Buffet		Salon D
8:00am-Noon		Conference Registration		2nd Floor Lobby
9:00am-10:00am	S-2	GENERAL SESSION The Unbroken Circle: Using Records, Pictures, and Objects to Reassemble the Family Circle	Phyllis Caruth	RCC103
10:00am-10:15am		Break
10:15am-11:15am		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - I
	S-3	Battle of the Crater and the United States Colored Troops (USCT)	Emma Davis Hamilton	RCC102
	S-4	Telling the Stories − Real, and Imagined − of Women, and Unsung Heroes	Janis F. Kearney	RCC103
	S-5	Using Statistics to Find Your African Roots: Exploiting the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database	Irvin Smith	Riverside East
	S-6	The Three A's of mPata: Afrikan, American, Arkansan	Dr. Patricia "mPata" McGraw	Riverside West
11:15am-11:30am		Break
11:30am-12:30pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - II
	S-7	Honoring Our Historic Past	Gloria Bailey	RCC102
	S-8	The Search for Enslaved Ancestors	Linda McDowell	RCC103
	S-9	African American History in Little Rock, 1847-Present	Constance Sarto & Kwendeche	Riverside East
	S-10	Learning Resources on Family Search	Cherie Bush	Riverside West
12:45pm-2:00pm	S-11	Authors Luncheon and Book Signing		Salon D
2:15pm-3:15pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - III
	S-12	The Historical Significance of Black Dolls in Black Society	Mary Swift	RCC102
	S-13	Expressions, Visions & Migrations of Henry Lee Dumas: From Sweet Home to Harlem to “East Saint Arkansippi	Eugene Redmond	RCC103
	S-14	The Legacy of Richard Toombs, Corporal, USCT	Rhonda Stewart	Riverside East
	S-15	Allensworth: California's All-Black Town	Denise Lancaster-Young	Riverside West
3:15pm-3:45pm		Break
3:45pm-4:45pm		CONCURRENT SESSIONS - IV
	S-16	(3:45pm-5:25pm) From Foot to Fork: Celebrating the History of Soul Food	Charla Franklin	RCC102
	S-17	U.S. Census Techniques and Strategies for Finding Elusive Ancestors	Sandra Joseph	RCC103
	S-18	Finding Your Ancestors by Using Obituaries and Tombstone Inscriptions	Tamela Tenpenny-Lewis	Riverside East
	S-19	Blended Families: Documenting Indian Ancestors in African American Families with 19th and 20th Century Records	Angela Walton-Raji	Riverside West
7:15pm-9:00pm	S-20	Banquet	Annie McDaniel Abrams	Robinson Center Exhibit Hall
9:30-Midnight		Dance		Robinson Center Exhibit Hall

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Time	Session	Title	Speaker	Room
7:30am-10:30am		Brunch		Salons ABC

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32nd AAHGS Conference
Hosted by AAHGS - Arkansas Chapter

Ties that Bind: Honoring Our Ancestors

22-25 September 2011
DoubleTree Hotel
Little Rock, Arkansas

32nd AAHGS Conference Hosted by AAHGS - Arkansas Chapter

Ties that Bind: Honoring Our Ancestors

22-25 September 2011 DoubleTree Hotel Little Rock, Arkansas

32nd AAHGS Conference
Hosted by AAHGS - Arkansas Chapter

22-25 September 2011
DoubleTree Hotel
Little Rock, Arkansas