The Chautauqua Regional Genealogy Conference will take place at the Fluvanna Community Church in Jamestown on Saturday, April 27. It is being sponsored by the Fenton History Center.
There will be four classes to choose from for each time period.
Class 1 – 10:15 AM – 11:30 AMqua
Genealogy for Beginners; Tax and Land Records; Immigration and Ways to Publish Your Genealogy Research
Class 2- 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Chautauqua County Resources; Genetic Genealogy; Cool Tools for Genealogy and African American Genealogy
Class 3 – 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Genealogy Organized; Ancestry.com for Beginners; Anatomy of a U.S. Military Pension File and New York Historic Newspapers
Class 4 – 3:30-4:45 p.m.
FamilySearch; Ancestry.com for Intermediates; Cite Your Sources and Preserving Historic Family Photos
The cost of the conference is $75. To register and for more details on each program, go to: fentonhistorycenter.org/crgc
In addition, there will be a history fair at the church that is free and open to the public. There will be vendors and books for sale. A guest speaker, Caleb Abrams, will present at talk at 9 a.m. Abrams is a Seneca filmmaker and multimedia artist from Buffalo.
