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2024 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

June 27-29, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Annual Meeting for 2024 will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 28-30, 2024. The Family History Center in Salt Lake City will be our host. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You may want to prepare your family history questions by reviewing the The Family History Center website in advance by going online

Family History Library Building:

  • Founded in 1894 to gather records worldwide and assist individuals with their family history and genealogical research
  • Largest library of its kind in the world and visited by over 1,900 patrons each day

 Other Local Attractions and Events Calendar:

For more information contact: Gailen Vick gailenvick@gmail.com

Saturday, April 28

11:00 AM

FamilySearch

Zoom Library Orientation Presentation


Thursday, June 27

3:30 PM

FamilySearch

Library Presentation

4:30 PM

FamilySearch

Library tour 

Friday, June 28

9:30 AM

Welcome JVFOA President - Solutions & Apps. Connect with relatives that are working on the same family lines. Board of Directors meeting & Elections of Officers

By Gailen10, Sidney Calvin9, John Shadrack8, Arthur Robert7, Shadrack Rivers6, Arthur5, Shadrach4, Athur3, Richard2, Joseph1

11:30 AM
FamilySearch

Discovery Center & Break Room for Lunch (Bring your own lunch or place order with our caterer Jimmy Johns or Chick-Fil-A)

12:30 PM

FamilySearch
We will have a presentation from FamilySearch 

1:30 PM

Presentation George Flaggs Jr., Mayor of Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

 Mayor Flaggs will present the co-plans for our 2025 conference in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

The City of Vicksburg will celebrate their 200th anniversary, which was founded by Rev. Newit Vick, while JVFOA will be celebrating their 350th year since arriving in Colonial America.

 

3:00 PM

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.

4:30 PM

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.

Saturday, June 29

9:00 AM

Welcome Gailen Vick – Elections of Officers results

Treasury Report

10:30 AM

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.

11:30 AM

FamilySearch

Discovery Center & Break Room for Lunch (Bring your own lunch or place order with our caterer Jimmy Johns or Chick-Fil-A)

12:30 PM

FamilySearch

We will have a presentation from FamilySearch

2:30 PM

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.

4:30 PM

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.                                                                 


Sunday, June 30

11:30 AM

John D. Beatty will participate in a book signing and donation of his newest book to the Genesis Group (www.ldsgenesisgroup.org), which will be placed into the FamilySearch Library.

                           

Visit one of these NEARBY HOUSES OF WORSHIP

The Conference will be broadcast live via Video & Audio for those who are unable to attend in person. You may join the meetings via Zoom.com.  How to register will be provided closer to the Conference. 

All major airlines service The Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), which is convenient to downtown. There are rental cars, ground transportation, and public transportation via TRAX Green Line to Temple Square Station. 

There are a number of hotels within a short distance from Temple Square.