If you mark May 3 on your calendar and head for Williams Junior High School in Oakland, you will find many interesting workshops to help you along your genealogical path.

Silence Howard Hayden Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, is host for the second annual genealogy conference.

Admission is $8 in advance, or $10 at the door. DAR members who pay in advance will be admitted for $6.

The event includes three workshop sessions of 75 minutes each, with a choice of three or four topics for each session. A bonus session on “Beginning Genealogy” will be open during registration, from 8 to 9 a.m., with professional certified genealogist Sharon Ann Paradis.

Topics at 9 a.m. are:

. “Research Using Social Security Administration Records,” presented by Laurence Decker, district manager.

. “Preservation of Modern Imaging Systems,” including digital and CD-Rom, with David L. Mishkin of Just Black & White.

. “Roots Magic Software,” with Debbie Roberge.

. “Researching in Aroostook County,” Michelle E. Thomas, a staff librarian at the Bangor Family History Center and compiler of “Bangor’s Vital Records, Vol. 1, Births.” Leigh Cummings, board member of Cary Library in Houlton, will assist Thomas.

Sessions for 10:45 a.m.:

. “Researching Your Loyalist Ancestors,” with author Paul Bunnell.

. “Genealogy Using the Internet,” with teacher Patricia Faley.

. “Publishing 101,” with Marlene Groves, manuscript editor at Picton Press.

At 1:30 p.m. will be:

. DAR lineage workshop, presented by Ann Thomas and Theo Walker. Women interested in joining the DAR may bring research materials and obtain assistance.

. “Researching the Registry of Probate,” with Allison Hawes.

. “Master Genealogist” software, with Sharon Ann Paradis.

Vendors of genealogical and historical books will attend. For vendor table information, call (888) 778-6550 or e-mail shhdar@lycos.com.

Lunch will be served at noon for $6. Door prizes will be drawn at 1 p.m. Books from the Oakland Public Library will be available for use by attendees, with working space available.

For a brochure, e-mail shhdar@gwi.net, or call Carolyn at 465-2278, Laura at (888) 778-6550, or Judy at 465-2252. Send registration and lunch fee to: SHH-DAR, Judy Couture, 64 South Alpine St., Oakland, ME 04963.

Check out the next meeting of the Wassebec Genealogical Society at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13, Penquis Higher Education Center on Mayo Street, Dover-Foxcroft. Members Ted Grant and Bill Allard will present information on their large genealogical databases containing names of thousands of individuals linked to Piscataquis County and other locations.

Alice Beal and Terry Hussey have just put together a 28-page booklet for the Milbridge Historical Society, based on old Wallace store ledgers. The booklet lists sales of caskets and other items needed for burials, as well as transportation costs to the cemetery. The ledgers usually indicated who paid the funeral costs, and often the name of the deceased. The cost of the booklet is $4 plus $2.50 shipping and handling, sent to MHS, P.O. Box 194, Milbridge, ME 04658.

3215. KNOX-DAY. Seeking information, ancestors, descendants, siblings of Ward A. Knox, b. June 3, 1822, New Brunswick, son of John Knox. Ward d. Dec. 3, 1903, Calais; md. Oct. 24, 1846, in Calais, Joanna Day, b. March 9, 1826, New Brunswick, to Elisha Sr. and Hannah Jane (Atkinson) Day. Joanna d. Feb. 9, 1912, Calais. They lived Calais, Topsfield, Codyville, eight children. Deborah M. Cross, P.O. Box 3, Milo, ME 04463-0003.

3216. KNOWLEN-ROWE-BOOBER. Looking for information on Knowlen name, and place of marriage for my parents, Ervin Ludlow Knowlen and Helen Gertrude Rowe, md. about Feb. 25, 1932. My great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Knowlen, md. Martha Boober. Seeking parentage, place of origin, marriage date, place. They had 12 children. Thomas was killed about 1825 on a fur-buying trip to northern Maine, bd. there. Son John b. 1802. Family name may have been Nolan, of Ireland. Aubrey Knowlen, 80 Brackett Road, Gorham, ME 04038; aknowlen@maine.rr.com.

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.