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 FamilySearch Library 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 FamilySearch Library website in advance by going online.
FamilySearch Library Building:
- Established in 1985 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:
- Temple Square
- FamilySearch Library
- The Tabernacle Choir "Music and the Spoken Word"
- The great Tabernacle organ
- Utah Valley Events Schedule
- Humanitarian Center Tours
- Church History Museum
For more information contact: Gailen Vick gailenvick@gmail.com
Saturday, April 20 (Library Orientation Zoom Presentation)
11:00 AM
Zoom Library Orientation Presentation
Thursday, June 27
3:30 PM
Library Orientation Presentation: Come learn a little about the history of FamilySearch and the FamilySearch Library, see what resources we have available and how to best utilize them, discover new ways to search for records, and learn some of what Salt Lake City has to offer.
4:30 PM
Library Tour: Join us for an in-depth, behind-the-scenes tour of the FamilySearch Library provided by one of our research specialists.
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
10:30 AM
Dr. Stephanie Hampton Credle will be sharing about her new assignment as JVFOA Chairperson of our America 250 Committee in preparation of the 2026 celebration.
AMERICA, YEARS IN THE MAKING
LUNCH - Discovery Center & Break Room (Bring your own bag lunch or place an order with our caterer Jimmy Johns or Chick-Fil-A)
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
 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 loca l 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: Subject scheduled
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.
5:15 PM
We will have a presentation from FamilySearch - DNA Basics: An Introduction to DNA and Genealogy (Janalee)
Saturday, June 29
9:00 AM
Welcome Gailen Vick – Elections of Officers results
9:30 AM
Treasury Report- by Roger McGrew
10:30 AM
Presentation by Michael Mayfield Vick - Subject; preamble of his 2025 presentation that he will present next year of those who fought in the Civil War (1861-65) in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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
Discovery Center & LUNCH - Discovery Center & Break Room (Bring your own bag lunch or place an order with our caterer Jimmy Johns or Chick-Fil-A)
12:30 PM
Tommy was born and raised in the same small Texas border town as was his father who was a foreman with the Southern Pacific Railroad and a mother who was a real estate broker. Family, hard work, honesty, and paying your way were constant important themes in this family. Family History was an early interest for Tommy in which led to many questions about his family history. Tommy’s mother, Karen Vick, became a genealogist to answer these questions and would take the young Tommy on long trips to San Antonio, Texas
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 "Perspectives on Researching the Vick Family of Gloucestershire, England." I will discuss my own research findings in parish registers and wills, and I will report on what Sarah Pearson has found for us at that time on her research for JVFOA in Great Britain.
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.
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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.
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.