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Now you can register and reserve your spot for the July 2010 Germanna Conference and Reunion. You can register and pay online or you can send your registration information and fees to Germanna by snail mail if you prefer.
The Germanna Colonies Foundation extends an invitation to a social gathering and interpretive portrayal of Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood by living historian Dennis Loba, whom you will find in appropriate period attire. This event only requires your attendance to enhance it and your presence will be welcomed with no fee required. (It's free!)
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
The Germanna Colonies Foundation extends an invitation to a social gathering and interpretive portrayal of Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood by living historian Dennis Loba, whom you will find in appropriate period attire. This event only requires your attendance to enhance it and your presence will be welcomed with no fee required. (It's free!)
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia is seeking college-age students for internships. Interns will have a variety of experiences related to the heritage of the 1714 and 1717 Germanna immigrants, including genealogical research, historic preservation, the Germanna Colonies Museum, the Salubria mansion (ca 1742), and the annual historical conference and reunion .
Below is an article from a 48-page magazine that is the monthly publication of the league of German-American Clubs all over Germany.
As members of the Salubria Committee, Kathy Ellis and Katharine Brown have been doing some research on the background of the Reverend John Thompson, who was the established church minister of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper (which included Little Fork Church where Germanna ancestors in the Little Fork community worshipped). Rev. Thompson was, as you know, the man who built Salubria.
The Orange County Historical Society announces that the first in its series of illustrated lectures on the history of the county will be postponed from Saturday, February 6, to Saturday, February 13. The hope is that we will break out of the weekend storm cycle we've been in for most of the winter and that the lecture schedule will only have to be moved up by one week.
The Germanna Foundation is just about to publish our long-awaited Yager Genealogy, called Germanna Record No. 19: The Yager Family. This is going to be a very large volume, more than 700 pages, and Cathi Clore Frost has been working on it for about three years with help from a lot of Yagers, so we are pretty excited.
Now you can pre-order it from the Foundation before March 4, 2010, for $47.00, but after that it will be $52.00. To make your pre-order, just click here.
In an effort to make the July 17, 2010 Germanna Auction at Salubria the best ever, we are asking all our members and friends to help out by securing items to be auctioned off at Salubria.
To contact us about your Germanna Auction donation items or ideas, email foundation@germanna.org
Germanna Foundation President Marc Wheat will be the featured lecturer on Sunday, January 17 at the Fauquier Heritage Institute Lecture Series in Old Town Warrenton at the John Barton Payne Building at 3:00 PM. The subject will be The Germanna Colonists: the Founders of Fauquier. For a map to the location of this event,
