We are thrilled to introduce you to one of the dynamic speakers teaching at our 2018 Family History Conference in San Antonio on November 2-4, 2018. Register online now!
About the Speaker
Diane L Richard has M.E. and M.B.A. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She has been a genealogy researcher since 1987; since 2004 her professional focus has been on the records of North Carolina, other Southern States and migration paths to the Mississippi River. Her expertise in Southern research is highlighted in her topics on records & repositories and African American research.
She is a member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG) and as a speaker she does webinars (coast-to-coast), conference presentations (FGS, NGS, TxSGS, FGS, NERGC, SCGS Jamboree, etc.), workshops, and local meeting programs about the availability and richness of records documenting North Carolinians, genealogical research techniques and tips, under-utilized resource collections and much more.
Since 2006, Diane has authored almost 300 articles on genealogy topics for a variety of national to local genealogical publications. From 2010-2017 she was the editor of Upfront with NGS, the blog of the National Genealogical Society for which she published over 2000 posts. She is currently editor of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) journal and Wake Treasures, the journal of the Wake County Genealogical Society.
Learn more about Diane on the conference speakers page and her presentations on the conference topics page.
Diane’s Topics:
- The Genealogical Gems Found in Manuscript and Archival Collection Holdings – Saturday, 2:00 p.m.; Records and Repositories
- Slaves + Insurance = Rich Records – Sunday, 11:00 a.m.; African American
- Geography, Politics, Religion & More as Found in Post Office Records – Sunday, 3:30 p.m.; Records and Repositories
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I am looking for a speaker to address our local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution chapter in Sugar Land, Texas. Do you know anyone that might be interested?
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A great place to find speakers is the TxSGS Speakers Bureau, listed on https://www.dev.txsgs.org/programs/speakers-bureau/. You can find speakers near you by searching the Speakers Bureau page for the TxSGS District for your area. Each speaker in Texas has the district where they are located included in their listing. Simply use your browser’s search function and search for “District R”. You can view the TxSGS District Map at https://www.dev.txsgs.org/about/district-map/.
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