Presentation by Charles Mays - a family historian will demonstrate the process of reading of various handwriting, especially "secretary hand" that predates 1752. 

1971 graduate of Brigham Young University with a Bachelor's Degree in Genealogical Research.  Specialty in the southeast United States and Great Britain. Charles has lectured at genealogical and historical societies, including the Virginia Historical Society. He has served as a volunteer for FamilySearch.org for over 50 years with 34,000 direct line ancestors identified in his personal tree.

Author John D. Beatty Book Signing

John D. Beatty "What drove me to writing a new book to replace the original 2003 Volume Vick book”, a reference librarian in The Genealogy Center. He is a Board-certified genealogist, an author of sixteen books on local and family history, he served as principal editor for volume one of a two-volume History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. He has conducted original research on families from colonial New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland & Virginia. He serves as archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana.

Larry Vick: DNA Research, From Science to Storytelling: Using Y-DNA to Trace the Ancestral and Descendants’ Lines of Joseph Vick of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight Co., VA 

Larry is the treasurer-registrar of the Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County and the Society’s past librarian.  He is a director of the Joseph Vick Family of America.  Additionally, Larry is the administrator of the VICK and Allied Families DNA Project, and was one of six 23andMe Ancestry Ambassadors.

Dinner will be served, Dinner reservation Donation $45 per meal

Dr. KT Vick subject: Colonization of Vicks in Virginia (historical perspective of Joseph's Virginia and our family's presence in the Commonwealth, as seen through the lens of social history) Have you ever wondered what life was like for our Vick ancestors, living in Colonial Virginia? Life was challenging and each day posed many obstacles that we contemporary Americans may take for granted. From those first days when Joseph Vick of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County arrived to seek his fortune and fame in the New World, until the colonization of Virginia finally gained a stronghold, there are many stories to share and opportunities to learn how our ancestors lived and prospered.

Welcome Gailen Vick – Board of Directors meeting 

Elections of Officers 

Annual Report

Presentation by Michael Mayfield Vick - Subject; Take care of your ancestors from birth to burial. Hear what you can do to locate cemeteries and provide markers. With newly discovered letters, pictures and documents resulting in a Vick gravestone 160 years past due. 

Michael has lived in Texas all his life. Univ. of Texas grad with 2 degrees & a Certified Public Account certificate. His career was spent in management consulting & as a Real Estate Developer. Michael is a real history buff & enjoys both Texas and Family history. He has the distinguished pleasure of knowing that his family attended the 1st Joseph Vick Family Reunion in Mississippi that was organized by Sam Vick in 1972. Michael's father, brother & Sister attended and returned home to tell the amazing stories of the Vick Family. Michael was one of the early participants in the Vick DNA Project. Retired, Michael & Gretchen his wife enjoy time with family.

We will have a presentation from FamilySearch on "Shared Family Tree" or Controlled Edit Trees. This will allow only those in a family or society group to edit the tree. This software upgraded will be released in 2024.

Dinner will be served, 

Dinner reservation Donation $45 per meal 

Author John D. Beatty book Signing

Speaker: Bruce Turner was born in Southampton County, VA in the town of Drewyville.  Both his mother and father were born, raised, and educated in Southampton County as well.  Bruce spent most of his childhood living in Southampton County whereby he received an abundance of information on the Nat Turner legend from Grandparents, Great Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles. The history and background of Nat Turner from the prospective of Bruce L. Turner (Great-great-great grandson of Nat Turner) lecturer and oral historian. “The fact that a person comes to hear me speak means they have some interest in the topic,” Turner said. “My satisfaction comes from talking about who my grandfather was, as a man. Only three days of Nat Turner’s life were involved in the insurrection. He was extremely intelligent. He was a preacher. He had a family. He had deep convictions.”

Presentation by Ted Shaw; I am a descendant of one of Joseph Vick ‘s sons and an unidentified enslaved woman. I did not know what to make of this discovery. I recalled that Malcolm X said, “I hate every drop of white blood in me because it is the blood of a rapist”. Yet, when told that a member of the Vick family wanted to talk with me, I agreed to do so. The conversation started awkwardly. I acknowledged the obvious: No one alive today is responsible for what their ancestors did. We are only responsible for what we do or do not do in our time. While I was intrigued to learn about the Joseph Vick Family of America and my connection to it, I was not ready to embrace or be embraced by it, or to attend its reunions. The Vicks, however, would not let me get away.

John D. Beatty "Tips for Writing a Genealogy, How I used the methodology I did for creating the book & some Funny, Strange, and Unusual Stories in the Early History of the Vick Family”, a reference librarian in The Genealogy Center. He is a Board-certified genealogist, an author of sixteen books on local and family history, he served as principal editor for volume one of a two-volume History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. He has conducted original research on families from colonial New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland & Virginia. He serves as archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana.