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2008 Education Program Field TripsFHC, Mclean, VA April 24th and 25th, 2008 Linda MacLachlan has agreed to repeat the orientation which Carolyn Ingersoll gave to an FxGS group in March. There are several people on a waiting list who will have first choice, but if anyone else wants to sign up, please email Bobbie Leamer, (dickleam@usa.net) There will possibly be another orientation to be scheduled sometime in May if more are interested than can be accommodated on Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th.( Is there any interest in a late afternoon orientation on a day when the FHC is open until 10 p.m.?) Each group is limited to ten people so they can do research after the orientation.This orientation is to learn about the extensive collection of materials, including books, CD's, microfilms and microfiche owned by the McLean FHC, and the databases to which they have access. In particular, participants will be able to learn about the new database, Footnotes, to which the FHC has a subscription. It will not include the new digitized FamilySearch system, which is still being fine tuned. The new system will not be available until late fall at the earliest. Please be at the McLean Family History Center by 10 a.m. It is located at the corner of Great Falls Blvd. and Idylwood Road ---2034 Great Falls Blvd. Take Idylwood Rd. right after exiting from 66 at Rt. 7 (Leesburg Pike) and going north. Continue on Idylwood Rd. until just before the intersection with Great Falls Blvd., where you will enter the parking lot behind the church via a driveway on your right. Park in this area and enter the church by that entrance. Turn right and go down the hall from the foyer and the FHC is a few doors down on your right. The orientation will begin at 10:15 a.m. Don't be late! S7450 Boston Blvd Springfield, VA May 6, 2008 Those who participated in the last tour in December of 2006 are still talking about it! Hopefully those of you who missed it can do it this time. We will meet there at 10 a.m. and hope to finish by noon. The BLM administers 261 million surface acres of public lands. Their website, www.glorecords.blm.gov, provides access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. (Note this does not include records for Virginia and Crown Colony land grants --the original 13 colonies). Pat Tyler said they are now working on putting military land warrants online! Sign up at meetings or email Bobbie Leamer, dickleam@usa.net . Richmond, VA June 7, 2008 This
library has unique materials, not the vital statistics, land records, wills,
etc. which are found at the Library of Virginia. Their manuscript
collections consist primarily of private family papers, correspondence, church
records, business and organizational records, account books, Bible records,
genealogical charts, and papers of genealogists who have donated their records.
Also they have an extensive library of published county sources, genealogies, and directories. Pat
Townsend will be leading this trip, and she wants to meet at the Springfield Mall at 7 a.m., stop for breakfast along the way, and be at the
library about 10 a.m. when it opens. There will be an orientation by the
head librarian, Frances Pollard. Sign up at the meetings, or contact Pat
at 703-960-1997. Email Bobbie Leamer, dickleam@usa.net
up to mid-May.
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