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SUMMARY:Sandwiching in History Tour: Historic Downtown Conway
DESCRIPTION:Sandwiching in History Tour: Historic Downtown Conway\nMay 7 – Virtual Tour – Premiere on Facebook the first Friday of each month at noon and are archived on AHPP YouTube Channel.\nThe City of Conway was named the county seat of Faulkner County in 1873\, and since its creation has become an important commercial center in central Arkansas. Conway’s historic district was listed on the National Register in 2010. It includes buildings from 1879 through the various phases of the city’s development. Join us as we explore the historic commercial core of downtown Conway in cooperation with Conway’s Downtown Partnership organization.
URL:https://heritageseekersar.com/event/sandwiching-in-history-tour-historic-downtown-conway/
LOCATION:Facebook Live\, AR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arkansas
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SUMMARY:Outdoor Event - Oakland Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Outdoor Event – Oakland Cemetery\nby 3 1/2 speakers \nNoon — Bring a sandwich & a lawn chair.\n2101 Barber St\, Little Rock\, AR\nSoutheast corner (top ‘o the hill) at the Confederate mass grave. \nTopics:\nConfederate Soldier on Campaign\nby Vernon Dutton\, 3rd Arkansas Infantry\, CSA \nMilitary History at Oakland Cemetery\nby John Rains\, Oakland Cemetery \nConfederate Mass Graves\nby Mary Evans\, (1/2 speaker) Heritage Seekers\, Civil War Round Table \nConfederate Mass Graves in Little Rock\nby Randall Freeman\, Sons of Confederate Veterans\, Newton Camp \nSpeakers:\nVernon Dutton of 3rd Arkansas Infantry\, CSA \nVernon Dutton will demonstrate a day in the life of a Confederate soldier. What the Southern Soldier had to know\, wear and contend with to stay alive during campaign season. So what did the soldiers do all day? The war was life-changing for the young men and boys\, most of whom had never left their hometowns. What was life was like on those endless boring days with nothing to do? Vernon is an expert in exactly that! \nVernon Dutton holds the rank of High Private in the 3rd Arkansas Infantry\, CSA\, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Civil War History. Since his first event at Prairie Grove Battlefield in northwest Arkansas in 1994\, Dutton has participated in more than 25 national reenactments at historic battle sites\, including Gettysburg\, Shiloh\, Corinth\, Perryville\, Pea Ridge\, Red River Campaign\, and Antietam. \nDutton was recognized in 2013 for his first book\, “Civil War Reflections\,” an anthology of original poetry and prose that honors the battles\, soldiers\, and spirits\, as well as contemporary reenactors who recreate historic moments from the American Civil War. In December 2019\, his latest work\, “Assassins of History: Creators of Chaos\,” will be released. He also appeared in a local film about David O. Dodd. \nDutton served his country as a decorated United States Marine Corps helicopter pilot in Vietnam and taught flight training in Pensacola\, Florida after his tour of duty. He is a retired attorney\, a retired executive of a large insurance agency\, and holds a 4th Degree Black Belt in Aikido. Vernon practices Qi Gong for mental clarity and physical longevity. He and his wife Nancy have been together for more than 52 years. Vernon is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Civil War Roundtable. \nJohn Rains\, Sexton of Oakland Cemetery \nJohn Rains was born in Greenville\, Mississippi. John had the choice to join the Navy in 1982 but chose to join his father in his optical business instead. They moved (as a family) to Little Rock in 1990 where John continued pursuing his other interest in jewelry repair. His father always instilled in him to diversify\, no matter what job he had. This worked well for him through several\, very different “careers” over the years. One of the most enjoyable was being an explosive technician for Arkansas and Southern Missouri\, then as an interior installer working with the avionics department for Dassault Falcon Jet. After a couple of other inconsequential jobs\, he landed right where he thinks he was meant to be\, as the sexton for Oakland & Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park. He has been sexton for over 10 years and has found it most rewarding in many ways. \nDid you know? While Little Rock was under Union occupation\, there was a Union hospital for smallpox on the site of Oakland Cemetery? There are union soldiers buried at National Cemetery? There is a Confederate mass grave at Oakland containing 900 burials? There is a Confederate mass grave at adjoining National Cemetery containing 640 more disinterred from Mount Holly? A lot of war dead associated with the site? \nMary Evans & Randall Freeman\, Confederate Mass Graves \nMary will give a brief discussion of Confederate mass graves that are located all over the south; known or unknown\, on or off battlefields. Confederate casualties were never given the same burial rites as the Union boys. Some still lie in ditches or cornfields across the south. Many families never learned the location of their loved ones. The impact of MIAs & the losses felt by the families is relevant then & now. What about the possibilities of 900 genealogical brick walls? \nRandall will talk about the mass grave here in Oakland. He knows who the 900 are\, where they came from\, the history of the obelisk & much more. \nRandall Freeman was born in Harrison\, Arkansas\, raised in the rugged Searcy County Ozarks. His mother was an avid genealogist long before the internet and spent hours in courthouses\, libraries\, and sending correspondence in search of information. She dragged Randall in and out of cemeteries his entire young life. One time in particular\, at the grave of his great-great-grandfather\, John Caldwell Calhoun Freeman\, Randall learned he was a Confederate soldier. \nAs life went on\, time went by and as both parents passed\, Randall developed an interest in the Civil War. He discovered 33 Confederate Freemans just on his paternal side. He got involved in local Southern heritage events and joined the local Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He has now been Commander of the oldest Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp West of the Mississippi River for the last 5 years (Newton Camp.) \nEventually\, (fate) Randall turned up in the Confederate section of Oakland. He began doing research on the cemetery and made a discovery that his mother never could. She and others worked tirelessly to find the place of burial of a young man who would be my great-great-uncle on her side of the family. Through research\, I found him resting at Oakland Confederate Cemetery. He is one of the 900. “Sometimes when I am there\, I speak his name aloud\, as I wish I could for all these young heroes. Reece Jefferson Kimbrell.”
URL:https://heritageseekersar.com/event/outdoor-event-oakland-cemetery/
LOCATION:Oakland Cemetery\, 2101 Barber St\, Little Rock\, AR\, 72206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Heritage Seekers
ORGANIZER;CN="The Heritage Seekers Genealogy Club":MAILTO:info@HeritageSeekersAR.com
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SUMMARY:Zoom Meeting - Artificial Intelligence And Genealogy
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence And Genealogy\nby Scott Lee \nThis presentation will review how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in genealogy today and how it will likely affect it in the future. A high-level\, down to Earth\, explanation of some of the many buzzwords will be included. The rise of home computers followed by the Internet has greatly affected how we research our family trees. AI will have a much bigger impact. \nScott Lee is a retired software engineer that has been researching his family history since 1979. He has served as an officer in several genealogical societies and lectures on genealogical topics. Currently\, he is a board member of the Arkansas Genealogical Society and First Vice President of Heritage Seekers. In 1995\, he helped design the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for transporting genealogical data\, improving its syntax to be more easily read by software and fixing several issues in date specifications. Scott grew up in Little Rock\, Arkansas\, but his work took him to Indiana\, Oregon\, North Carolina\, and New York City. In retirement\, he\, and his wife\, Deirdre\, have returned to their families in Arkansas. His career included the medical field\, engineering computer graphics\, and consulting in the process of building reliable software. In retirement\, he is working in the design of deep learning neural networks and software for genealogy. In his spare time\, he enjoys writing science fiction\, studying ancient calendars\, writing open source software\, keeping up with the latest advances in physics and astronomy\, and of course researching his family history. \nMeeting Files:\nSlides in PDF format\nZoom meeting chat text \nMembers\, please login to see the video:Zoom meeting video:\n0:00:00 Meeting (first few minuted not recorded)\n0:02:10 Presentation\n0:59:00 Questions and Answers\n1:09:00 Post-Meeting\n1:27:51 End
URL:https://heritageseekersar.com/event/zoom-meeting-artificial-intelligence-and-genealogy/
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