MTGS Meetings and Workshops

• Saturday, September 16, 2023, 1:00pm Central, in-person at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville, AND online on Zoom
  MTGS Regular Meeting: Taneya Koonce, speaker
  Topic: The Power of RootsMagic for Genealogy Organization
  
  Taneya Koonce, MSLS, MPH, is a popular MTGS speaker, and former Board member. This time she will show us how to use the RootsMagic program as our genealogy database.
  
  This meeting is open to the public and we hope that you can join us, either in-person or via Zoom.
  
  The recording of this meeting is MTGS_2023-09-16_Taneya_Koonce_RootsMagic.mp4.
  
  
• Saturday, November 18, 2023, 9:00am - 4:00pm Central, in-person at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville
  35th Annual Genealogical Seminar with Dana Leeds
  
  This year we welcome Dana Leeds, creator of the Leeds Method for DNA-match analysis. The Seminar will be devoted to DNA+genealogy.
  
  Seminar Topics:
  • The Leeds Method: Organizing Your DNA Matches
  • One Man, Multiple Names: A DNA-Based Case Study
  • AncestryDNA Tools (like ThruLines & Custom Groups)
  • The Shared cM Project & Cousin Terminology
  
  Seminar Registration is now open. The cost is still $40 for current MTGS members, and $45 for non-members, which includes a boxed lunch, snacks and beverages.  Please note that we are not offering a remote option for this Seminar.
  
  To register, visit our Seminar page.
  
  
• Saturday, January 20, 2024, 1:00pm Central, in-person at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville, AND online on Zoom
  MTGS Regular Meeting: Ancestors, Antiques and Artifacts - Show and Tell
  
  Our annual show-and-tell program is a great opportunity to share something from your family history - either an item or a story.
  
  This meeting is open to the public and we hope that you can join us, either in-person or via Zoom. The Zoom link for this meeting will be posted here the week of the meeting.
  
  
• Saturday, March 16, 2024, 1:00pm Central, in-person at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville, AND online on Zoom
  MTGS Regular Meeting with MerryAnne Pierson: Lineage Societies
  
  MerryAnne Pierson, longtime MTGS member, tireless genealogy researcher and the State Lineage Research Chair for the Tennessee DAR, will explain the various lineage socieites that genealogists can join, including but not limited to DAR, the Mayflower Society, Colonial Dames of America and Daughters of Colonial Wars.
  
  This meeting is open to the public and we hope that you can join us, either in-person or via Zoom. The Zoom link for this meeting will be posted here the week of the meeting.
  
  
• Saturday, May 18, 2024, 1:00pm Central, in-person at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville, AND online on Zoom
  MTGS Regular Meeting with John F. Baker Jr.
  
  Our May program will be given by John F. Baker Jr.  Many researchers met John, a resident of Robertson County, in conjunction with his landmark book, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation:  Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom.
  
  John will also present our annual Writer's Award for the best-judged article in our Journal.
  
  This meeting is open to the public and we hope that you can join us, either in-person or via Zoom. The Zoom link for this meeting will be posted here the week of the meeting.
  
  

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  Other Genealogy and History Events in Middle Tennessee

  • The Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society holds meetings and workshops on the 1st Saturday of each month except January, July and September.
    
    

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  Other Local, Regional and Online Events for Friends of Genealogy

  • Tennessee Genealogical Society Events Calendar
    
    
  • Southern California Genealogical Society Webinar Series (ongoing, twice monthly)
    Free to watch live (advanced registration required)
    Archived broadcasts available to SCGS members only
    
  • Registration is now open for RootsTech 2023, to be held March 2-4, 2023 in-person in Salt Lake City, and also virtually.
  • The Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, MO is hosting its Spring Seminar on Saturday, March 25, featuring Gena Philibert-Ortega.
  • The National Genealogical Society will hold its 2023 Family History Conference from May 31 - June 3, 2023 in Richmond, Virginia, with on-demand access available July through December 2023.
    
    

  Other Genealogy Calendars

  National Genealogical Society (NGS) Events Calendar

Eastman's Online Calendar of Genealogy Events
ConferenceKeeper - "Curating and Calendaring Genealogy and Family History event details"
Facebook Genealogy Calendar of Events

 

Past MTGS Programs, Workshops and Seminars

Speaker(s)	Date	Topic
Julia Doyle, TSLA Emily Farek, TSLA Graham Perry, Tennessee Historical Commission J. Mark Lowe, FUGA Carol Roberts, Bedford County Archivist	34th Genealogical Seminar, November 2022	Preventive Storage and Care of Textile Collections at Home Care of Paper Collections and Preventive Conservation Basics Understanding Tennessee Cemetery Law They Drew a Crooked Line and Formed a Border - The Walker's Line Dispute Best Practices of Caring for Family Photographs
Melissa Barker, Houston County Archives & Museum	September 2022	Genealogy Surprises, Discoveries, and Outright Lies: Sorting out the Facts
Trent Hanner, Reference Librarian, TSLA	July 2022	The 1950 Census and Beyond
Allen Forkum	May 2022	Ink and Blood:  Nashville's Fighting Editors (recorded)
Chuck Sherrill, State Librarian and Archivist	March 2022	The Future of History
Everyone!	January 2022	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Tina Beaird	November 2021 (virtual)	33rd Annual Genealogical Seminar CSI: Cemetery Search and Investigation Researching Family History at the Library of Congress Mapping Your Migrating Ancestors Scotland’s Resources: There's More to Scottish Research Than Scotland'sPeople! (recorded)
Taneya Koonce, MLS, MPH	September 2021	One-Name and One-Place studies (recorded)
Chuck Sherrill, Tennessee State Librarian and Archivist	July 2021	Introduction to Research at the New Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tennessee State Library and Archives staff	May 2021	Tour of the new Tennessee State Library and Archives building
Everyone!	January 2021 (virtual)	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Elizabeth Shown Mills Zachary Keith David Dowell Chuck Sherrill	November 2020 (virtual)	32nd Annual Genealogical Seminar - Online Samuel Witter vs Samuel Witter: Separating Same Name Soldiers, War of 1812 The Patriot Paths Website at TSLA: GIS Mapping of Revolutionary War Veterans If Grandpa Gave No DNA, Can I Find Out Who Did? Winning the Battle for a New Library and Archives
cancelled	March, May, July, September 2020
everyone!	January 2020	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Dick Eastman	November 2019	31st Annual Genealogical Seminar Genealogy Searches on Google The Organized Genealogist Using Online Genealogy Programs Mobile Apps for Genealogy
Paul R. White	September 2019	Using Wills and Probates in Genealogy Research
Veronica Sales, TSLA	July 2019	Using Church Records in Genealogy Research
Ken Fieth, Metro-Davidson County Archivist	May 2019	The Giers Glass Plate Negative Collection at the Metro Archives, 1890-1905
Taneya Koonce, MLS, MPH Zachary Keith and Sara Baxter Jim Lewis, Ranger, Stones River National Battlefield	March 2019	Genealogy in the Round: What's New at FamilySearch? TSLA's Map Collections Solders and Sailors Database, and Stones River NB holdings
	January 2019	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Artifacts” (show and tell program)
David Dowell, Martha Gerdeman, Taneya Koonce, Melissa Barker	November 2018	30th Annual Genealogical Seminar Knowing How We REALLY Inherit DNA Helps Us Breach Genealogical Brick Walls But They Didn't Own Any Land! What's in Deed Books besides Deeds? Let's Get Digital: Mastering Online Book Repositories and Managing Digital Photos Museums Have Records, Too! Locating Your Ancestors Behind Closed Doors
Albert Bender	September 2018	Tracing Native American Ancestry
Carol Roberts and Stewart Southard, TSLA Conversation Dept.	August 2018 workshop	Conservation of Documents workshop
Ken Fieth, Metro-Davidson County Archivist	July 2018	Tour of Nashville Public Library's Nashville Room, Civil Rights Room, and the Metro Archives
Melissa Barker	May 2018	Loose Records in an Archive:  What Are They?
Dr. Mark Cheathem	March 2018	Andrew Jackson's Kinship Networks
	January 2018	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Heirloom Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL	November 2017	29th Annual Genealogical Seminar How Old Did He Have to Be? When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records Don't Forget the Ladies-A Genealogist's Guide to Women and the Law After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA
various MTGS experts	September 2017	"Genealogy in the Round" - A Roadshow/Roundtable meeting Computers and Websites Researching Records Beginning Genealogy DNA Testing
Dr. Derek Frisby, PhD	July 2017	Middle Tennesseans in the Mexican War and Repatriating those Killed in Action at the 1846 Battle of Monterrey, Mexico
Rick Warwick, Williamson County Historian	May 2017 MTGS 30th Anniversary	Notable Books on Williamson County
Carol Roberts, Conservation Manager, Tennessee State Library and Archives	March 2017	Caring for and Using Photographs in Family Research
	January 2017	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Heirloom Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Gordon Belt Chuck Sherrill Allison Griffey Jim Long	November 2016 Annual Seminar	Stories from the Stacks Moonshiners and Horse Thieves: Ancestors in Tennessee Supreme Court Records Gold Star Records from World War I You Can’t Evade Taxes...At Least Not in Genealogy
Trent Hanner, Senior Research Librarian, Tennessee State Library and Archives	September 2016	Finding Your Out-of-State Ancestor at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Taneya Koonce, MLS, MPH	July 2016	Maximizing the Use of Online Collaborative Family Trees for Your Personal Research
Dr. Judith Morgan	May 2016	My Name Was Elmwood: Following Clues to Build a Family History - The Berry "Connection" to Multiple Middle Tennessee Counties
Dr. David Dowell	March 2016	Can DNA Breach My Brick Wall?
	January 2016	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Heirloom Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FNGS, FASG, FUGA	November 2015 Annual Seminar	Strategies and Understanding: Tracking Elusive Ancestors
Gordon T. Belt	September 2015	The Melungeons
Paul R. White	August 2015	Learning the Legal Avenues of Genealogy
Dorothy Williams Potter	July 2015 workshop	Tracing Your Ancestor on the Early Southern Frontier
Drew Mahan, Archivist	July 2015	Metro Nashville Archives Tour
Allen Forkum, Editor, Nashville Retrospect	May 2015	The origins of the Nashville Retrospect and reflections on some of the stories covered thus far.
Trent Hanner, Senior Research Librarian, Tennessee State Library and Archives	March 2015	Getting the Most out of On-Line Genealogy Resources
	January 2015	“Ancestors, Antiques, and Heirloom Artifacts” (show and tell program)
Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA	November 2014 Annual Seminar	Transportation, Education and Government Programs: Records for My Family Story: - The WPA Era: What It Created for Genealogists - The Three Rs: Reading, 'Riting and Research in School Records - Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking - Controlling Chaos: Organizing your Genealogical Materials
Tennessee Ancestry Library Event	September 2014	All-day genealogy event at the Nashville Sheraton, co-hosted by Ancestry and TSLA
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	August 2014 workshop	A Death in the Family (estate records)
Rick Warwick	July 2014	Williamson County: The Civil War As Seen Through the Female Experience
Myers Brown	May 2014	Loyal Cavaliers: Images of Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen
Joe Spann	March 2014	Albion's Seed: A Deeper Understanding of our English Colonial Ancestors
Dr. David Dowell	January 2014	Genetic Genealogy
Chuck Sherrill, TSLA State Librarian and Archivist Darla Brock, TSLA Manuscript Archivist J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA Jim Long	November 2013 Annual Seminar	"Good News About Old News:  Civil War Newspaper Research in the Digital Age" "The Taxman came, then changed his mind:  Direct Federal Taxes and the Rebate Ledgers" "Help Me Please?  Government Claims and Other Unusual Requests"  "Footsteps of the Fourteenth, or Look Everywhere - Then Look Everywhere Else:  A Case Study"
Bob Duncan	September 2013	Flatboats to Natchez
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	August 2013 workshop	Spending the Day with Perry Mason, Ben Matlock and Tennessee Court Records
Lynda Massey	July 2013	Finding Your Ancestors Through 19th-Century Photography
Monte Arnold	May 2013	Telling your story through photographs
Darla Brock	March 2013	Genealogical Research in the Union Provost Marshal Records at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Paul Clements	January 2013	Chronicles of the Cumberland Settlements
Rick and Pam (Boyer) Sayre	November 2012 Annual Seminar	Discovering Our Ancestors:  Maps and Newspapers
Tom Kanon	September 2012	Tennesseans and the War of 1812
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	August 2012 workshop	Discovering the Records of Tennessee, Kentucky & Whiskey Stills
Carol Roberts	July 2012	Agricultural Records at TSLA
Dr. Wayne Moore	May 2012	Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee
C. William McKee	March 2012	The Nashville City Cemetery: A Resource for Genealogists
	January 2012	Tennessee Authors' Day
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FNGS, FASG and FUGA J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA Charles A. Sherrill	November 2011 Annual Seminar	Problem Solving in the Problem-Riddled Carolina Backcountry Inheritance Laws and Estate Settlements in the Carolinas The Late Unpleasantness:  Research in Civil War records created after 1865
Jim Taulman	September 2011	How to Share Your Work by Self-publishing
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	August 2011 Workshop	Land Platting Workshop
Karel Lea Biggs	July 2011	Shortages and Substitutions on the Confederate Home Front
Paul R. White	May 2011	Awards and Winners Program
Carol Roberts	March 2011	Solving Mysteries using County Records and Loose Case Files
	January 2011	Family History Show and Tell
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FNGS, FASG and FUGA	November 2010  Annual Seminar	Working Smarter: Sources & Strategies for Finding Your Family’s Past
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	September 2010	Farm House, Meeting House, Court House: Breathing Life into Your Family’s Story
Paul R. White	August 2010 Workshop	Developing Personalities and Finding Obscure Records in Genealogical Research
Gail Jackson Miller	July 2010	The Harpe Brothers
George Zepp	March 2010	Hidden History of Nashville
	January 2010	Family History Show and Tell
Charles A. Sherrill J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	November 2009  Annual Seminar	Is Ancestry.com Worth It?: Fee and Free Web Sites for Genealogical Research Here Comes the Bride, and There She Goes Early River Towns
Mark Strength	September 2009	“Bonny Kate,” aka Mrs. John Sevier
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	May 2009	Awards and Winners program
Irene Griffey, Doug Drake, Jack Masters and Paul Clements	March 2009	Pioneer Land Grants, Traces, Roads and Pioneer Stations in the Central Valley of the Cumberland River
	January 2009	Family History Show and Tell
Craig Roberts Scott, CG	November 2008  Annual Seminar	Searching for Your Military Ancestors
Charles A. Sherrill	September 2008	Using Original Court Records: A Hands-On Workshop
Amber Barfield	July 2008	Restoration and Preservation of Manuscripts and Documents
George Zepp	May 2008	Awards and Winners program; Nashville history
Dan S. Allen	March 2008	Cemetery Law and Conservation
	January 2008	Family History Show and Tell
Shirley Wilson, CG Marie Martin Murphy J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA	November 2007  Annual Seminar	Understanding State and Public Land Records There’s Gold in Them Thar’ Deed Books Land Platting Workshop
Christine Young	September 2007	Artifacts for Future Generations
Lorna D. Morton	August 2007 Workshop	Native American and Cherokee Genealogy
Martha Gerdeman	July 2007	Non-Population Schedules of the U. S. Federal Census
Walter Durham	May 2007	Historical review of the state and current historical activities; MTGS 20th Anniversary celebration
Amber Barfield	March 2007	Identifying and Dating Old Photographs
	January 2007	Family History Show and Tell
Dr. John Philip Colletta	November 2006  Annual Seminar	Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors and Telling Their Stories
Richard Saunders	September 2006	Conducting Genealogical Research in West Tennessee & Southwest Kentucky
Charles A. Sherrill	July 2006	On Solid Ground: Finding Ancestors in Tennessee Land Records
Bob Duncan	May 2006	Flatboating in Tennessee
Dr. Carole Stanford Bucy	March 2006	"A Historian Becomes A Genealogist: Putting a Face and Feelings on Facts"
	January 2006	Family History Show and Tell
Dr. Carole Stanford Bucy Shirley Wilson, CG Tom Kanon Charles A. Sherrill	November 2005  Annual Seminar	Fitting Your Family History into the Story of Tennessee and the United States Climbing That Brick Wall The Draper Papers: Their Historical and Genealogical Value Advanced Internet Genealogy
Richard Saunders	September 2005	Genealogical Research in West Tennessee and Southwestern Kentucky
Linda Bamickel	July 2005	Putting Your Ancestors in Context
NGS Conference in the States	June 2005
Marsha Mullin & Elizabeth Kellar	May 2005	Hermitage Heritage: Behind the Big House
Bill Sumners	March 2005	Southern Baptist Genealogical Resources
	January 2005	Members Show and Tell
Lloyd Bockstruck	November 2004  Annual Seminar	Genealogical Research in the South
Elizabeth Queener	September 2004	Friersons Rediscovered & Reunited: Black & White
J. Mark Lowe	July 2004	Kinfolk in Kentucky, Ties in Tennessee
Tom Kanon	May 2004	Tennesseans at War, 1812-1815
Julia Otey Lee	March 2004	Blacks in Blue and Gray
	January 2004	Members Show and Tell
Hank Jones	November 2003  Annual Seminar	When The Sources Are Wrong Tracing the Origins of Early 18th-century German Palatine Emigrants Family Tradition: How to Separate Fact From Fiction How Psychic Roots Became An Unsolved Mystery
Kevin W. Matthews	September 2003	Finding Your Civil War Ancestors
Walter Durham	July 2003	Middle Tenn. Families Reach Out: Goin' West!
Margaret Vaughan	May 2003	New Genealogical Treasures at the Linebaugh Library
Tom and Liz Allman	March 2003	Family History Centers: Doorway to a World of Data
	January 2003	Genealogical Tales and Treasures, an open forum
Dr. Calvin Dickinson, Shirley Wilson, David S. Ewing, Dr. Bobby L Lovett, Martha Stewart Geyer, Charles Sherrill, Sara J. Harwell	November 2002  Annual Seminar	12 great topics!
Dr. Carole Bucy	September 2002	Marble Cities & Middle Tennessee Genealogical Gems
Dr. Brian Trainor and Fintan Mullan	May 2002 Workshop	Researching Your Irish and Scots-Irish Ancestors
Fletch Coke	March 2002	Davidson County, Tennessee Cemetery Survey Projects
	January 2002	Show and Tell
Shirley Wilson, Martha Geyer, Fran Schell, Chuck Sherrill, J. Mark Lowe, Pat Hastings, Julia Lee, Amber Barfield, Sue Smith	November 2001  Annual Seminar	Many great topics!
Irene M. Griffey	September 2001	Earliest Tennessee Land Records and Earliest Tennessee Land History
Joe White	July 2001	Huguenot Ancestry & History
Ken Fieth	May 2001	Tour of new Green Hills Archives
T. Vance Little	March 2001	Williamson County Genealogist and Historian
Fletch Coke	January 2001	Davidson County, Tennessee Cemetery Survey Project
Martha Stewart Geyer, Shirley Wilson, Patricia Gilliam Hastings, Dorothy Williams Potter, Julia Otey Lee, David & Frances Osborn Robb	November 2000  Annual Seminar	Many great topics!
	January 2000	Show and Tell
	November 1999  Annual Seminar	Beginning, Advanced, Enrichment genealogical tracks
Dr. Richard P. Gildrie	March 1999	Guerrilla Warfare in the Lower Cumberland, 1862-1865
	January 1999	Show and Tell
Lloyd Bockstruck	November 1998  Annual Seminar	migration, legal terminology, church records, and “Bridging the Atlantic”
Dr. Edwin S. Gleaves	September 1998	The 1998 Summit (local archives development)
Deborah McConnel	July 1998	Tracking Tennesseans in World War I
Dr. Wayne C. Moore	May 1998	Using State and Business Records in Genealogy
Jane Gray Buchanan	March 1998	Adventures of a 20th Century Sleuth on a Meandering Trail to 17th Century England
	January 1998	Show and Tell
Desmond Walls Allen	November 1997  Annual Seminar	Creative Problem Solving for Genealogists
Carol Roberts	September 1997	Preserving Your Family Papers
Frances Robb	July 1997	Learning From Old Photographs
Nick Fielder	May 1997	An Archaeological View of Cemeteries MTGS 10th Anniversary Party
Charles A. Sherrill	March 1997	Southern Claims Commission, a New Civil War Research Tool
	January 1997	Show and Tell
George K. Schweitzer	November 1996  Annual Seminar	Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War Genealogy
	September 1996	Open House at the Nashville Metro Archives
Ron Lee	July 1996	Genealogy on the Internet- The Basics
Steve Rogers	May 1996	Family Cemeteries: Their Legal Issues and Preservation Threats
NGS Conference in the States	May 1996	Traveling Historic Trails
David Sowell	March 1996	Sabin Photographic Collection, TSLA
	January 1996	Show and Tell
Marilyn Miller Morton	November 1995  Annual Seminar	British, Irish, and German Immigration into the East Coast and the South The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania and the South The Indians in Tennessee, North Carolina, and North Georgia Quakers, Huguenots, Moravians, and Catholics in the South
	September 1995	A Preview of Coming Attractions: 1996 - Nashville National Genealogical Society Conference in the States
Ken Fieth	July 1995	The Metro Archives
Steve Cotham	May 1995	Using Knoxville's McClung Historical Collection
Susan Adamson	March 1995	Photo Preservation and Display
	January 1995	Show and Tell
Elizabeth Shown Mills	November 1994  Annual Seminar	Genealogical Problem Solving
Dr. James Johnson	September 1994	Shelby County Records and The Memphis Public Library Collection
Ann Alley	May 1994	What's New in Archives and Manuscripts at the State Library
Rebecca Bain	March 1994	Oral History and Interviewing Techniques
Helen F. M. Leary	November 1993  Annual Seminar	Genealogical Problem Solving
Shirley B. Wilson	September 1993	County Research— Don't Let That Courthouse Intimidate You
Jeanne Ridgway Bigger	May 1993	Loose Paper Projects are on Fire in Tennessee
Paul Clements	March 1993	An Eccentric Local Historian's Discovery of Genealogy
John Vogt	November 1992  Annual Seminar	Tips, Tricks and Traps of Virginia Genealogical Research
Dorothy W. Potter	September 1992	Regulation of Travel and Settlement Across Early Tennessee
Marylin Bell Hughes	July 1992	Recent Additions to the Manuscript Collection
Emma Wisdom	May 1992	The Family Reunion--A Step in Genealogy Research
Charles Sherrill	March 1992	Tennessee Court Records in Genealogy
Jo White Linn	November 1991  Annual Seminar	Genealogical Problem Solving
Marylin Bell Hughes Wayne Moore	August 1991	What Every Genealogist Should Know about the Tennessee State Library and Archives Land Records and Community History
Tim Burgess Byron Sistler	May 1991	The History of Burial Markers for Union and Confederate Soldiers Some Things I Have Learned in 25 Years of Genealogy and Publishing
Pat Hastings, Gale Bamman	Feb. 1991	Things I Found in the Early Laws While Looking for Something Else, Early Divorces - - How the Records of Torn Families Help Us Piece Them Together
Lloyd Bockstruck	November 1990  Annual Seminar	Immigration into Tennessee Emigration from Tennessee What's in a Name-Onomatology Heraldry Record Keeping in Genealogy
Pat Hastings, Cleo Hogan	August 1990	Legal Research for Genealogical Purposes, Legal Terminology for the Genealogist
Shirley Wilson, Jim Johnson	May 1990	Land Records in the Public Land States, Genealogical Records in Tennessee
Sheila Riley	Feb. 1990	Victorian Cemetery Art
David Lloyd Swift, Mary Glenn Heame, Irene Griffey, Bill Haywood, Don Doyle, James A. Crutchfield, Shirley Wilson, Ed Gleaves, Fletch Coke, Cleo Hogan	November 1989  Annual Seminar	Many great topics!
Sharon MacPherson	August 1989	Reading and Interpreting Old Documents
Irene M. Griffey	May 1989	Early Tennessee Land Records - The Military District
Madelon Smith	Feb. 1989	Colonel Jack Hays
Shirley Wilson, Byron Sistler, Jean Bigger, T. Vance Little, Don Doyle, Betty Bridgewater, Irene M. Griffey, Louise Lynch, Yolanda Reid, Frank G. Burns	November 1988  Annual Seminar	Many great topics!
Mary Glenn Hearne	August 1988	Genealogical Treasures in The Nashville Room
Virginia Lyle	May 1988	Davidson County Records (Metro Archives)
David McClatchey, William Haywood	Feb. 1988	Computer Hardware and Software Demonstration
Walter Durham, Tim Burgess	November 1987	Reluctant Partners -Nashville and the Union Civil War Research
Marilyn Bell Hughes	August 1987	Lesser Known Facts About the Tennessee State Library & Archives