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In December, we reported that the Colorado Attorney General filed suit against Morphcorp, the company which produced International Family Yearbooks. The company, which settled the suit with the State of Colorado on 3 February 2006, will pay a $30,000 fine, $25,000 in court costs, and must refund money to all unhappy customers. Consumers desiring a refund may file a complaint through the Colorado Attorney General’s Office or through the company at (720) 297-6250. For the official announcement, go to Colorado Attorney General’s Office.

The story was reported on 9 February 2006 by Dick Eastman. To read the entire article go to Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.

As reported on 12 December 2005, the Colorado Genealogical Society is featuring J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA, as the speaker for their annual seminar on 17-18 March 2006.

Mark is the immediate past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Society. He is an author and lecturer that shares his love of history and genealogy with Southern style and homespun humor.

Friday night’s program will take place during the Society’s regular meeting held at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Court, Denver. The meeting is free and open to the public. The topic will be “Here Comes the Bride-And There She Goes.”

Saturday’s program will be held at the Conference Center of the Denver Public Library, 13th and Broadway. The cost of the all day seminar is $25, with an optional lunch offered.
The topics to be presented are:

• Making Those Early Census Records Talk to You
• Finding Your Landless Ancestors
• My Ancestor, The Farmer: Shaping a Profile of Your Rural Ancestor
Road Crews and Jury Selection: Finding an Ancestor Without a Census

For registration information visit the CGS website.

For more information call:
Carol Darrow at (303)287-6063
Lou-Jean Rehn at (303)333-2492

More than a dozen well known black Denver citizens had DNA tests to determine their ancestry. The group participated in the project to trace their roots as part of a fund raiser for the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library.

Read the article in the Rocky Mountain News