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Live Webinar with Diane Richard, Dec 2024

Wednesday, December 4 7:00 pm 8:00 pm EST

New Live Webinar

The North Carolina Genealogical Society is delighted to present:

Diane L. Richard, MEng, MBA

“Crimes Across Multiple Jurisdictions: Piedmont Outlaws – The Abbott Brothers”

A LIVE Webinar, December 4, 2024 at 7:00 pm ET.

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About the Webinar:
Understanding the legal jurisdiction and geography of ancestors and events is critical in finding needed genealogical records. For various historical reasons, records are not always found in the most obvious places; we need to stretch ourselves and look elsewhere. The four Abbott brothers, responsible for a one-family 18th-century Piedmont crime spree, will help us illustrate this as we look at various courts (Courts of Pleas and Quarters, District Superior, North Carolina Supreme, etc.), Treasurer & Comptroller, and General Assembly Session Records, plus a private lawyer’s ledger, and more.

About the Speaker:
Diane is an internationally recognized professional genealogist with expertise in effective research strategies, tips, techniques, and underutilized resource collections; investigating Southern U.S. records; and researching formerly enslaved or Free People of Color ancestors. Since 1987, she has been conducting genealogy research, celebrating her 20th anniversary in 2024 of professionally researching client ancestors. Diane shares her knowledge through both written and spoken word, delivering hundreds of webinars, in-person programs, conference presentations, workshops, and local meeting programs. Her presentations cover the availability and richness of various records and strategies for effectively leveraging them.

Since 2006, she has authored over 600 articles for publications such as Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today/Family Chronicle, and wrote the column “Net Notes” from 2006-2023. From 2010-2017, Diane edited Upfront with NGS, the National Genealogical Society’s blog, publishing over 2000 posts. She is currently the editor of the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal and a past editor of Wake Treasures.

Diane owns Mosaic Research and Project Management, co-leads Tar Heel Discoveries, providing guided North Carolina genealogical research, and serves as Vice President of North Carolina Historical Records Online (NCHRO). She is co-owner of GenWebinars, offering interactive genealogy webinars.

A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), and various local societies, Diane has
researched North Carolina roots for the TV show Who Do You Think You Are?, appearing on the Bryan Cranston episode. She holds Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees in Engineering, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


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Recordings of the webinars are available to members within a few weeks of the live session.
• A public replay of the webinar will occur on a future date that will be published on the website and the NCGS News.

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Downloadable/printable pdf Flyer for this webinar:
Crimes Across Multiple Jurisdictions Flyer

Full registration URL: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7138827075173682522

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