10 May 2006

Wallace State Genealogy Program Offers Trip to Salt Lake, Summer Symposiums

HANCEVILLE, AL-- The largest library in the world for family history research is in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Family & Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville is offering a trip there from June 19 to 28. Site seeing will be offered all along the trip. The journey will be made in a tour bus. The travel fee will be $330 per person, with individuals paying for rooms and meals individually.

   To make the drive more interesting, stops are being planned on the way to Utah at St. Louis, Mo.; Fort Smith, Ark., where the great pioneer journeys of the Old West began; and in Denver, Colo. While in Utah, researchers will visit the great library, the Genealogical Society of Utah, while other participants will tour Salt Lake and the nearby national parks that are among the world’s greatest wonders. On the return trip, genealogists and site seers will stop at the Grand Canyon and visit Dallas, Texas.

   Plans for other trips are currently in the works. The Family & Regional History Program is considering a Civil War history-oriented trip to Gettysburg in July. The program will also offer a trip to Washington, D.C., for site seeing and family history research October 29-November 5. The approximate fee for each of those trips will be $140 per person.

   During the summer, Wallace State also offers symposiums on how to research ancestors. Each of these courses lasts only a few days (9 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. each day). This year courses will include Introduction to Genealogy (June 29-July 1), Advanced Genealogy/ Book Publishing (July 5-July 8), and Southern Genealogy (July 13-July 15). For persons not taking the courses for credit, the cost is $30 per person for any or all courses. Non-credit registration is done at the first class.

   The Family & Regional History Program, located on the fifth floor of the library at Wallace State Community College, has a genealogical library and information science facilities for use by the general public, including books, family files, periodicals, microfilm, and computers. For lists of the holdings, visit www.wallacestate.edu/genealogy/index.html. The library is open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Staff is available each day to answer questions until 4 p.m.

   For more information on the genealogy program contact: Family & Regional History Program, Wallace State, P. O. Box 2000, 801 N. Main Street, Hanceville, AL 35077-2000 (Phone: 256-352-8263).

   The program was recently nominated for the Award of Merit of the American Association of State and Local History and the Award of Merit of the National Genealogical Society.

   Professor Robert S. Davis heads the Family & Regional History Program, teaches its courses, and leads its field trips. Nationally recognized, he has published thirty books and some 1,000 other publications. His latest work, Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville, is due out in June through Mercer University Press.

   CONTACT:  Robert S. Davis, Jr., Family and Regional History Program, Wallace State Community College, 256/352-8263, Robert.Davis@WallaceState.edu.

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  Kristen Holmes
  Director, Communications and Marketing
  Wallace State Community College
  P.O. Box 2000
  Hanceville, AL 35077
  256/352-8118
  E-mail: Kristen.Holmes@WallaceState.edu