Public invited to genealogy lecture at RCC

Barbara Vines Little

On Monday, April 11, at 6 p.m., Rappahannock Community College history professor John Paden has arranged for a presentation from Barbara Vines Little, a professional genealogist who will speak on the topic of “Uncovering Your Past: Where to Begin and How to Avoid Mistakes.” The session is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Warsaw Campus in Room 306.

Little is a certified genealogist, holding a master of education degree from the University of Virginia, whose primary interest is in Virginia research, “brick wall” problems, and complete genealogies. A member of the board of the Orange County Historical Society and a former president of the National Genealogical Society and the Virginia Genealogical Society, she has chaired six national conferences and served as coordinator and instructor for the Virginia Institute of Genealogical Research (Track II, 1996–2004), and, since 2007, for the Virginia track at Samford University’s Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research.

Editor since 1996 of the quarterly Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Little is also a former editor of the bi-monthly Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter and the MidAtlantic Germanic Society’s newsletter, Der Kurier. In addition to winning the National Genealogical Society [NGS] Quarterly Award of Excellence in 2001, she has written articles for a number of publications including the NGS Quarterly, the National Genealogical Society Newsletter, OnBoard (the newsletter of the Board for Certification of Genealogists), and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. She also edits the National Genealogical Society’s Research in the States series, is the author of its West Virginia volume, and has published three volumes of Virginia court records as well as editing other volumes for publication. For the past twenty years she has lectured at local, regional, state, and national conferences in twenty-seven of the fifty states, speaking on such topics as research methodology, Virginia and West Virginia resources, and writing and publishing on genealogy.