The Mississippi Genealogical Society and Mississippi Department of Archives and History has scheduled its annual Genealogical Seminar for Jan. 21, 2006.

This year&8217;s seminar will be held at a new venue in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum at 1152 Lakeland Drive in Jackson. Lecture sessions will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The speaker for the 2006 seminar will be Charles Sherrill, director of the Brentwood Library near Nashville, Tenn., and a retiree from the Tennessee Archives. An author of numerous books and articles on Tennessee research, Mr. Sherrill will lecture on genealogical research and sources in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and North Mississippi.

Sherrill&8217;s topics will include Tennessee Records I and II; Honorably Discharged &8212; Military Pension Record Research; Finding Genealogical Treasures in Manuscript Collections, and other side interests including how to access prison and penitentiary data, obscure census sources, and limited access family records.

As usual, book vendors and other genealogical booths will be available for attendees. Anyone interested in renting space for a booth should contact MGS at 601-924-9346.

Reservations for the seminar are now being taken. Cost of the lecture series is $30 with an optional box lunch from Primos being available for an additional $12. MGS members are offered a $2 discount off the reservation fee.

To make your reservation, send a check for $42 payable to MGS to PO Box 5301, Jackson, MS, 39206-5301. No refunds will be made after Jan. 12, 2006.

For additional information, call 601-924-9346 or email

roystonana@aol.com

or

landinmc@aol.com

.

Most years see attendees from a five- to six-state area. For those wishing to stay overnight, a block of rooms have been reserved at Country Inn & Suites, 1004 Treetops Blvd., Flowood, MS 39232, phone 601-939-2672 at a special MGS rate of $76.50 to $85. These reservations should be made directly with the hotel.

Mark your calendar and make your reservations early so you are not left out of all the fun! There could be no better way to get your research year off to a great start.

DOES ANYONE KNOW &8230;&8230; John Wilson (

Wilson950@aol.com

) has been looking for several years to find where JOHN WILSON who was living in Lawrence County, MS., in 1824, came from. He was on several tax lists in the 1820s. He married MARY JANE &8220;JENNY&8221; NORMAN in 1824 also in Lawrence County. He is not listed on the 1830 Census of Lawrence County. But he IS listed on a BENJAMIN WILSON&8217;S will in Lawrence County, MS., in the 1830s. There is no other record of him to be found.

From Bible and census&8217; records, he and Jane had a son, RODOLPHUS WILSON, born in December 1838. On the 1840 Census, Jane is head of household in Pike County, MS. Jane had a first husband, HIRAM NORMAN, whom she married in 1815 in Marion County, MS., and lived in Lawrence and Amite Counties. Hiram died in 1819. Can any reader help?

Please send your announcements and queries to FAMILY TREES, 900 Main Street, Natchez, MS 39120 or email

FAMTREE316@aol.com

. All queries are printed free of charge. We look forward to hearing from you!