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The following announcement was written by the National Genealogical Society: ARLINGTON, VA, 27 March 2013: The National Genealogical Society will be presenting a hands-on research trip to Washington, DC, from 3–9 November 2013. Under the guidance of Craig Roberts Scott, cgSM, and Patricia Walls Stamm, cgSM, cglSM, twenty-six researchers will use the genealogical resources at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library, and the Library of Congress (LOC). The Research Package includes: Six days of research at three noteworthy Washington, DC, facilities (the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Daughters... Dick Eastman

Inside a Catholic convent deep in St. Augustine's historic district, stacks of centuries-old, sepia-toned papers offer clues to what life was like for early residents of the nation's oldest permanently occupied city. These parish documents date back to 1594, and they record the births, deaths, marriages and baptisms of the people who lived in St. Augustine from that time through the mid-1700s. J. Michael Francis, a history professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and some of his graduate students in the Florida Studies department have spent the past several months digitizing the more than 6,000 fragile pages... Dick Eastman