Se Sure to Sign Up Before All Seats Are Taken

As many of you have noticed, sometimes our programs and community outreach activities with registration required tend to fill up rather quickly. Most of the events listed below are currently taking registrants.

Dr. Daniel Vivian is doing his talk "Making Sporting Plantations: Rich Yankees and the Transformation of the Rural Lowcountry, 1900 - 1940" twice. First, in the BDC on Monday for free without any advance registration; and second, at Coastal Discovery Museum on Tuesday. 

Repeating: The session set for Monday, March 11 at 11 AM in the BDC's 2nd floor lobby does not require registration. We can fit up to 40 people in the 2nd floor lobby if need be. It's not an optimal situation but the volunteers who help with tax preparation have dibs on many of the Library's meeting spaces during tax season. Dr. Vivian is doing this program during his Spring break so we didn't have a lot of flexibility for the date and times of his two lectures for the BDC and the Coastal Discovery Museum. Please note: No seats remain for Dr. Vivian's talk on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at Coastal Discovery Museum. Those seats were reserved very, very quickly.  

27 March - Registration now open: "Remembering Ann Head" with her daughter, Nancy Thode in cooperation with the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Closed when capacity is reached.  https://bit.ly/2Ddyda6

9 April - Registration will open on Tues., March 26th for the seats to attend "History and Tales of the Sheriff's Department" with Lt. Col. Neil Baxley, BCSO and Ed Allen, Coroner. This will be the final lecture of Season 3 of the Beaufort History Museum / Beaufort County Library Local History Series. Details will be posted at https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/events 

 

The African-American family history workshops are doing so well that the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, the International African American Museum's Center for Family History, the St. Helena Branch Library and the Beaufort District Collection have decided to offer reprises of the "Finding Your Ancestors in Freedmen's Bureau Records" workshop twice on Saturday, April 13, 2019: The morning session will be from 11 AM - 1 PM and you can reserve a seat ahead of time by registering; The afternoon session will be first come, first seated from 2 PM - 4  PM. Each session can only seat 20 people.


Update! 18 March 2019:
13 April - Registration now open: "Finding Your Ancestors in Freedmen's Bureau Records" with Toni Carrier at the St. Helena Branch Library at 11 AM; Again: We have only 20 seats so seats will likely fill very quickly. Closed when capacity is reached. To register: Call 843-818-4587 or e-mail: info@gullahgeecheecorridor.org. 

13 April -  Registration now open: "Finding Your Ancestors in Freedmen's Bureau Records" with Toni Carrier at the St. Helena Branch Library at 2 PM; The first 20 folks who arrive ready to participate will secure the first 20 seats. 

Looking ahead: The IAAM Center for Family History, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, the St. Helena Branch Library and the BDC are organizing 2 sessions of a workshop about how to locate information about the members of the United States Colored Troops as our next undertaking.