2018 Meeting Programs
May 3rd Program Details
Featured Speaker: Allen Dew
"The How and Why to Publish Your Family Research"
The program for the May 3, 2018 meeting of the Granville County Genealogical Society will be a presentation by Allen Dew on "The How and Why to Publish Your Family Research." Topics will include software to help organize your research, software to help publish, companies to help publish and some pitfalls to be aware of in the publishing world.
The Dew research started with Allen's family and proceeded back through the pedigree line to Thomas Dew who migrated from London England to the Jamestown Colony in North America about 1634-1635. Thomas was a Colonel in the local militia and was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses. He owned over 60,000 acres of land in Nansemond County Virginia. The descendants of this Thomas Dew migrated southward into North Carolina and South Carolina, and eventually migrated into most of the United States as new land was opened for settlement.
Over many years of research, Allen discovered many Dew relatives he did not know previously as relatives. Growing up in Rocky Mount, there were several Dew in that city and other towns in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson counties. From his research he discovered that all of those Dew were related to each other. This lead Allen to start researching all of the surname Dew in the United States, and some spelling variations such as Dewes, Due and Dews. Thus far, he has identified over 30 lines that are probably related, but has not found those connections yet.
Please join members of the Granville County Genealogical Society in attending this meeting, to be held at 6:30 P.M. on May 3, 2018 in the small conference room at the Richard H. Thornton Library in Oxford, N.C. All GCGS meetings are open to the public, and visitors and guests are always cordially invited to attend.
