Presented by Walter Bowman

 

 

Kentucky World War II Military Records Research 

Tips for researching World War II Kentucky military records

 

Walter Bowman is a native of Virginia and a graduate of Berea College where he double majored in History and Education. He taught history at a military prep school before taking the position of Archivist at the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs. After four years he left the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs to take a position as an archivist at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives where he was employed for 20 years, 12 of which he was the Research Room Supervisor.  In 2020 he returned to the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs as the archivist and lives in Lexington where he was a part-time staff member of the Lexington Public Library for 24 years working in the Libraries Kentucky Room.

 

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The Louisville Genealogical Society will be taking our annual fall trip to Salt Lake City, Utah to research at the Church of the Latter-Day Saints genealogy library. This is the largest genealogical library in the U.S.
 
We have rooms blocked at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, 122 S. Temple, which is next to the library. The daily rate is $95.00 for a standard queen and $105.00 for a deluxe queen. These prices do not include taxes. All rooms have two queen beds.
 
Watch the LGS website for additional information as it becomes available. Members, as well as non-members, are welcome to join us. This trip is always exciting and fun. Everyone will have many opportunities for new research, usually leading to many success stories.
 
If you are uncertain about going and would like to talk to others who has gone in the past, please contact Susan and she will put you in touch.
 
Susan Snyder -Travel Chair 
Treesbyme@gmail.com

 

August Meeting Postponed until September 06, 2022

Facilitators:

Nancy Simmons Roberson - Nancyaug19@gmail.com

John Bondurant - jtyreebond@gmail.com

 The First Wave German SIG meets for one hour on the first Tuesday of each month at 2:00  pm. We meet on Zoom and share and discuss German research tips and techniques. If you are interested in joining this group we welcome you to our meetings.

 Click on the link below to join the program:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82744193004?pwd=MVAvS2lmNVpKZEZhR3l0RGtwWFk1UT09

 

 

Kentucky’s Shaker villages, South Union and Pleasant Hill, drew converts from the South. Those converts brought their own well-established manners, customs, and cultural biases into environments and systems that had been designed by Shakers rooted in the Northeast. South Union, in particular, had a difficult time adapting and, consequently, created a material culture and maintained a folklife that was unique among Shaker villages. From the food they ate to the furniture they produced ...  from the way they spoke to the methods in which they constructed buildings ... the Kentucky Shakers were set apart from their northern counterparts. Their story is colorful, humorous, heart-breaking, and fascinating.

Tommy Hines, a native of Butler County, Kentucky, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University with a degree in Music Theory and Folk Studies, and a Master of Arts degree in Historic Preservation.  He began his career at the South Union Shaker Village in 1986 as Executive Director and Curator.  Hines has served on the boards of a variety of organizations and has acted as consultant for restoration and interpretive projects at numerous historic sites and museums.  He has also presented on topics related to Southern material, culture and folklife at venues that include Frist Center for the Arts, Colonial Williamsburg, and for the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. 

 

Hines has authored three award-winning exhibit catalogs, published articles in Antique Review and The Magazine Antiques, and contributed to other publications, including Shaker Communities in Kentucky (2006), Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture (2015), and Making Time: The Art of the Kentucky Tall Case Clock, 1790-1850 (2019).  In 2000 Kentucky’s Shaker Villages were awarded corporately the National Trust’s Award for Stewardship of Historic Sites. Hines received the Ida Lee Willis Service to Preservation Award from the Kentucky Heritage Council in 2001 and a National DAR Award for Service to Historic Preservation in 2010.  In 2018 South Union Shaker Village received the Edith Bingham Excellence in Preservation Education Award from Preservation Kentucky. Hines also received the Frank R. Levstik Award for Professional Service by the Kentucky Historical Society in 2020.

Presented by Nicka Sewell-Smith

 

Finding Isaac Rogers -

Isaac Rogers was a well-known Cherokee Freedmen, U.S. Civil War veteran and Deputy Marshal, but who was he outside of those titles? This is the story of how traditional genealogy, oral history, and DNA collided to reveal his family origins, which include connections to Cherokee Nation leaders, stories of resilience during the Trail of Tears/forced removal, and the true story of life as people of African descent within an indigenous group.

 

 

Nicka Sewell-Smith is a professional photographer, speaker, host, consultant, and documentarian with more than 20 years of experience as a genealogist. She has extensive experience in African ancestored genealogy, and reverse genealogy, and is expert in genealogical research in the Northeastern Louisiana area, and researching enslaved communities.

 

Nicka has diverse and varied experience in media with a background in audio, video, and written communications. She's appeared on TODAY Show, CNN, MSNBC, was featured on an Emmy winning episode of the series Who Do You Think You Are, and has been interviewed by Oakland Tribune, The Undefeated, National Geographic, and TIME. She is the host of BlackProGen LIVE, an innovative web show with more than 125 episodes focused on people of color genealogy and family history.

 

She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, a member of two lineage societies (Sons and Daughters of the Middle Passage (SDUSMP), National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)), and a past board member of the California Genealogical Society (CGS) and the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California (AAGSNC). Nicka served as the chair of the Outreach and Education Committee for AAGSNC, and is the former project manager for the Alameda County, CA Youth Ancestral Project where more than 325 youth were taught the value of family history.

 

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