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Meeting Schedules
& Special Events
MEETING NOTICE
Gloucester Genealogical Society of
Virginia
March 24, 2008
10 AM
The Gloucester Genealogical Society of
Virginia will meet Monday, March 24th, at 10 AM at the Parish House of
Abingdon Episcopal Church in White Marsh. The meeting is free and open to
the public.
The speaker for the meeting is Martha McCartney, author, lecturer, and
award-winning historian. Ms. McCartney will discuss her most recent work,
Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635,
an account of more than 5,000 of Virginia’s earliest English settlers—the
ordinary men, women, and children whose efforts enabled America's first
permanent English colony to become viable. Through primary sources
McCartney relates the basics about many of these original colonists: their
origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the
“hundreds” and “plantations” they inhabited, the names of their spouses
and children, their occupations and their positions in the colony, their
relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living
conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their
ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host
of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives.
This painstakingly researched work is the most comprehensive collection of
annotated biographical sketches of early Virginians yet published.
Martha McCartney has spent her career studying the history of her native
Virginia. Following graduation from the College of William and Mary, she
began the first of many associations with organizations in the state that
have sponsored far-ranging archaeological excavations, field surveys, and
collaborative historical research projects over the last generation. She
served as coordinator of the National Register and Review Compliance
programs at the Virginia Research Center for Archaeology and has been a
frequent consultant to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, National Park
Service, and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. McCartney’s special
interest in Virginia’s first century, including its ethno history, has
taken her on far flung assignments to England, Ireland, and Bermuda -
important stepping stones to the New World and the Old Dominion. In 1996
she received the Historic Preservation Award from James City County. In
2001, Ms. McCartney published With Reverence for the Past, a comprehensive
account of Gloucester history commissioned for the county’s 350th
anniversary.
A brief business meeting will precede Ms. McCartney’s presentation.
Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. For more
information, contact Nadine Tatum at 804-693-4274 or hope_olam@yahoo.com.
New members are always welcome. Annual dues are $15, which
includes a subscription to the society's journal "The Family Tree
Searcher." Application form can be printed from our website:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaggsv/application.htm
Send dues to Bob Plummer; address
below:
Robert W. Plummer
8215 Sheffield Dr.
Gloucester, VA 23061-5230
Our meetings are free and open to the public.
2008 DUES ($15 per year) MAY BE PAID AT THE MEETING OR
MAILED TO:
Robert W. Plummer, 8215 Sheffield Drive, Gloucester, VA 23061-5230
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