This Week in the BDC, 27 Jan 2019 - 2 Feb 2019 (and a few heads-up announcements)

Our Research Room is scheduled to be open our usual and customary hours of 9 AM to 5 PM this week. Drop by and talk with Kristy or Sam about your research needs. They will help you use our materials and services to answer your questions about all things Beaufort District. 

In addition to our usual Research Room services, we have two programs this week to interest our customers. One deals with language, origins of surnames and place names, and pronunciations unique to South Carolina . The other teaching research skills to folks interested in family history of ancestors who lived in this area during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras has been full for a week or more.

On Thursday Coastal Discovery Museum hosts BDC manager Grace Cordial who will discuss one of her favorite books Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names by Claude and Irene Neuffer. Come learn why native South Carolinians say surnames and place names the way they do! The presentation concentrates on the people and places in Beaufort District's long and storied history.  Because this lecture is being held at Coastal Discovery Museum registration is required: https://www.coastaldiscovery.org/event-registration/?ee=12625 There is a fee. Registration will close when capacity is reached.

We tested the African-American genealogical workshop waters with a co-sponsored event back in October 2018. It was such a success that the International African-American Museum's Center for Family History, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission and the Beaufort County Library banned together to offer a class on Freedmen's Bureau Records. All seats at "Finding Your Ancestors in Freedmen's Bureau Records" on February 2, 2019 were reserved as of 15 January 2019 and the waiting list is beyond full too. Stay tuned for announcements of arrangements to do a second session in the Spring.

Be sure to read our online February Monthly calendar and events. You'll see a program about Native American garbage heaps and an outing to Palmetto Bluff Plantation for an illustrated talk about some of the many hurricanes that have affected Beaufort, Jasper, and Hampton counties through time.

Heads Up Alert:
Registration for "Remembering Ann Head: Beaufort's Forgotten Author & Mentor to Pat Conroy" has opened. I expect that seats for this March 27, 2019 event will go quickly. Sign up at http://bit.ly/2Ddyda6 sooner rather than later if you want - and can -- attend this free local literary history program brought to you by the BDC and our friends of the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Registration will close when capacity is reached.