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58 Volume 17, Number 3, May-June 1993 DGS Newsletter
1993 SUMMER LECTURE SERIES
Date: 29 May 1993
Topic: Over the River
and Through the Woods:
Early American Migration Routes
Speaker: Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, FNGS
Was your ancestor born "under a wandering star?"
America's story is one of brave pioneers seeking new
frontiers. They moved over the mountains, across the
rivers, and through the vast forests, thereby creating
one of the most difficult brick-wall problems faced by
genealogists-locating an ancestor's previous residence.
Scaling this brick wall may be a simple matter of
understanding the routes your ancestor was likely to
have traveled to a new home.
In this presentation Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck will
explore the early trails and roads, mountain passes and
rivers, and other well-traveled routes of our ancestors.
In doing so, he will discuss the migration patterns of
various groups and clusters of people and the records
they created on both ends of their journey.
Lloyd is well-known locally, statewide, and nation-ally as a genealogical librarian, lecturer, and educator.
He has been with the Dallas Public Library since 1973
and has been supervisor of the Genealogy Section since
1979. Invited to speak in over 26 states, Lloyd has
participated in the National Genealogical Society
(NGS) Conferences since 1978. In 1983 he received
the NGS Award of Merit, and in 1992 he was elected
a fellow of the Society.
Lloyd is author of Virginia's Colonial Soldiers and
has written articles for some of the leading
genealogical publications. His NGS Quarterly article
on genealogical research in Texas was published as one
of the NGS Research in the States series. He presently
writes the informative "Family Tree" column
appearing each Saturday in The Dallas Morning News.
Attending one of Lloyd's seminars is always a treat.
He is well-liked by DGS members and local audiences
who return time and time again to hear him speak. We
know that he can address any genealogical topic with
expertise, skill, and knowledge. We also know that he
will do it with an innate understanding of human nature
and with a sublime sense of humor.Date: 26 June 1993
Topic: Bridging the Atlantic:
Researching Your English Ancestors
Speaker: Gordon L. Remington, FUGA
Despite the common language and heritage, it is
often more difficult to locate ones' ancestors in
England than other European Countries. To some
extent this is due to the fact that in the colonial period
America was technically part of the British Empire and
naturalization was not required. English records them-
selves are not always conducive to locating ancestral
origins so that research in American records is often
necessary to make the trans-Atlantic connection.
In this presentation, Gordon L. Remington will talk
about the sources in the U.S. to which one has access
and should use, as well as the sources abroad, to locate
the origin of our English ancestor. He will discuss the
English records, record keeping, and the record
keepers. More importantly, he will describe the
methodology needed to use these records to achieve
our goal.
Gordon L. Remington, a professional genealogist
and international lecturer, is a recognized authority onEnglish research. A native of Rochester, New York,
he resides in Salt Lake City where he pursues his
chosen profession though his own genealogical
research agency. He is much in demand as a speaker
at the conferences of the National Genealogical Society
and the Federation of Genealogi-cal Societies. In 1988
and 1991, he was a guest lecturer at the international
Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry.
Last fall DGS was delighted to have him as a speaker
at our symposium where he pleased local audiences
with his lectures on passenger lists and on Quaker
records (a subject in which he can claim expertise-he
is a Quaker).
Gordon served as president of the Utah Genealogical
Association in 1984 and was made a fellow of the
Association in 1992. Since 1989, he has edited the
Association's quarterly, The Genealogical Journal. He
was a contributing editor to the first edition of The
Source and has contributed to the second edition now
being readied for publication.
DGS is pleased and honored to have Gordon as one
of our Summer Lecture Series speakers. He will have
much to tell us about our English ancestors and how to
bridge the Atlantic.58
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