June 27-29, 2025

27th June - Friday Martha Vick Home, 1300 Grove St, Vicksburg - Silent Auction - 

1. 8 am to 2 pm, Family time to take your own tour.

2. 9:00 AM
   

   

   Welcome Gailen Vick – Elections of Officers results

   
   

   
   

   9:30 AM

   

   Treasury Report - By Roger McGrew - JVFOA Board member & Treasurer

   
   

   
   

   10:30 AM
   

   

   Presentation by Michael Mayfield Vick - Subject; who fought in the Civil War (1861-65) in Vicksburg

   11:30 AM

   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.
3. Silent Auction (bring your items, I know of several books that will be on the docket and bring your pocket book to purchase that interesting read)
4. 4 PM Our president, Gailen Vick, will demonstrate an application (or app as they are called) named “Relatives Around Me”
   
5. 7 PM Martha Vick Historic home (Dinner)
6. Speaker:  -  subject: Colonization of the Vick's in MIssissippi, Michael M Vick a Civil War historian, will present studies on our past military relatives that serviced in the war & our future fund raising  for the Joseph Vick Monolith Memorial..

1. 9 AM Annual Board Meeting
2. 10 AM Annual Meeting & Board Elections
3. 

   John D. Beatty Historian, will share our efforts to connect with Europe, Vick Families of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire From 16th Through 18th Centuries, 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.

   Martha Vick Historical home

   1:30 PM

   

   Larry Vick: Subject scheduled for DNA Research, Data Base Project & Presentations

   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.

   Class Rooms B & C - at the FamilySearch Library 35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

4. 12 noon lunch

5. 6 PM Reception George Washington Ball Historic House - 921 Main Street, Vicksburg It is the oldest remaining House in the original part of Vicksburg(heavy hors d'oeuvres from Lisa Catering). It would be fun to dress in antebellum style.
6. Members of the Joseph Vick Family of America Reunion catch up at the 2019 conference in Vicksburg with one another Saturday evening at the Martha Vick House on Grove Street. They are, from left, Shirley Anne Vick of Atlanta, Victor Vick of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary Ann Vick Graves of Decatur, Ga., and James Larry Vick of West Palm Beach, Fla
   

Sunday – June 29th

1. Sunday Services (attend you local Church)
2. 8 am Trip to Civil War Memorial & USS Cairo ironclad gunboat
3. 
   
   

Event Coordinator; Gailen Vick and Lisa Longfellow

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