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Lloyd Bockstruck, M.A., MLS, FNGS will be the featured speaker at the Colorado Genealogical Society’s (CGS) annual seminar on 18-19 April 2008.

Mr. Bockstruck is a Historian, Librarian, Lecturer, and Author. He is a Senior Faculty Member, IGHR, Samford University and supervisor of the genealogy section at the Dallas Public Library.

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, 7-9 pm. The topic will be “Research Along the Ohio River.” The meeting is free and open to the public.

Saturday’s program will be held at the Denver Public Library Conference Center, 13th and Broadway, Denver from 10 am-4 pm. The cost of the all day seminar is $30, with an optional lunch offered.

The topics to be presented are:

• Arriving in Missouri
• Where We Lived
• What We Did
• Who Stayed, Who Left, Why?

For registration information visit the CGS Web site.

For more information contact:
E-mail Sandy at sandy@carduff.com or phone Pam Smith (303) 756-0320.

The stories of thirty young writers will be featured in the “Relatively Speaking” essay book. The book is part of the Children’s Family Story Project and is a collection of stories told to the students by family members.

The article, which appeared in Sunday’s Denver Post Ordinary families make history, too, includes a quote from Colorado Genealogical Society program chair, Pat Roberts.

Thanks to Bobbi King for the tip about this story.