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		<title>Canebrake Genealogy Society First Annual Genealogy Fair</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canebrake Genealogy Society and Library invites you to celebrate Family History Month on Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 10:00 AM &#8211; 3:00 PM at the Marengo County History &#38; Archives Museum, Rosenbush Building, 101 N. Walnut Avenue, Demopolis, AL. Information: 334-341-3439. Open &#38; FREE to the public.]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham Family History Center Family History Fair Saturday, July 21, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Birmingham Family History Center will have a Family History Fair on Saturday, July 21st from 9am to 3pm. The event is free, but pre-registration is encouraged. Check-in begins at 9am. The classes are from 10am until 3pm, changing each hour, so you can attend up to 5 classes. Lunch will be available between 11am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Nominations for the National Genealogical Society Board of Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Genealogical Society is seeking nominations for officers and the board of directors. The election of NGS officers and board members will be held at the annual meeting at the NGS Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The following positions are open for election this term: Terms for officers run from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5800 Unmarked Graves Found in Oldest Black Cemetery in Montgomery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story appeared in the January 3, 2012 edition of the Montgomery Advertiser: Preliminary ground-penetrating radar work performed at Lincoln Cemetery has confirmed what many suspected: There are far more bodies in the cemetery than many believed and many are in unmarked graves throughout the cemetery. Originally designated for 700 burial plots when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Publish Your Family History Workshop Offered</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to organize and publish your family history with Sharon Jackson at the 6th Annual Black Belt African American Genealogy Conference and Family History Fair. For 12 years, Jackson had been collecting facts and photos and interviewing family members at family reunions, funerals and other gatherings.  &#8220;The net result of all my efforts,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil rights legend Bob Mants honored Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHITE HALL &#8212; Bob Man­ts was remembered Saturday for his civil rights commit­ment as well as serving as a role model for his family and community. Mants&#8217; death at the age of 68 earlier this month stunned those who admired him the most and some were in tears as they attended a memorial service at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuskegee Attorney Lateefah Muhammad to Serve as MC and Panel Moderator of the 2012 Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Macon County, Alabama in the Armstrong Community, Attorney Lateefah Muhammad is the second youngest of 11 children of the late Colonel Mabson, Sr. and Lillie Harris Mabson. She is a graduate of semi-private Cotton Valley Elementary School in Tuskegee, and South Macon High School in Roba, Alabama. A strong advocate for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take part in the 2011 National Day of Listening!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society (BBAAGHS) is pleased to be an official state partner of the acclaimed oral history project StoryCorps in celebrating the third annual National Day of Listening on Friday, November 25, 2011. On the day after Thanksgiving, BBAAGHS and StoryCorps are asking our members and anyone with roots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronne Hartfield to be the Annual Conference Awards Luncheon Keynote Speaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are excited that Ronne Hartfield will be the Keynote Speaker for the Awards Luncheon. Ms. Hartfield is a poet, essayist, and international museum consultant. She is the author of the biographical memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family (University of Chicago Press 2004). She co-chairs the Harvard University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Administration Makes Changes to the DMF and SSDI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post of interest to genealogists is reposted from Steve&#8217;s Genealogy Blog. The Social Security Administration is making changes to the public Death Master File—the source of the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) that genealogists know and love to use—that’ll impact your research. Effective today, 01 November 2011, the Social Security Administration (SSA) changed [...]]]></description>
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