Passing this on, we will be in Indy this weekend at the
cemetery workshop.
But Friday nights talk is about burial customs.
L.A.
Quaker Hill Conference Center announces that Tom Hamm, Archivist and Curator
of the Friends Collection at Earlham College, will be the principal resource
person for the annual "Quaker Genealogy Workshop" to be held this year on
Friday evening, September 17th and Saturday, September 18th, 2004, in
Richmond, Indiana. The program starts Friday evening at the Conference
Center
with dinner at 6:00 pm.
Tom Hamm will give an illustrated presentation Friday evening at 7:15
following dinner based on a recent research project. The working title of
Tom's presentation is "The Quaker Way of Death: Or Everything You Wanted to
Know about Quaker Graveyards, Tombstones, Burial and Death Records,
Memorials
and Related Matters."
Following breakfast at Quaker Hill Conference Center on Saturday morning,
the
workshop moves to nearby Earlham College to spend the rest of the day in the
Friends Collection and Archives in the Lilly Library. Tom Hamm will give an
introductory talk about the Friends Collection and participants will then
have several hours to pursue their own genealogical research interests
working with the materials and resources in the Friends Collection. Tom Hamm
will be present to assist and answer questions. Lunch on campus is included.
The workshop formally concludes at 4:00 pm on Saturday.
For more information and to register, go to the Quaker Hill Conference
Center
website at <http:www.qhcc.org> or call 765/962-5741.
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