Noted genealogist and author Patricia Law Hatcher will be the speaker at the fall conference of the Maine Genealogical Society on Sept. 6 at Williamson Center, School Street, Fairfield.

Elected last year as a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, Hatcher has written “Locating Your Roots – Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records,” “Producing a Quality Family History,” “A Rhoads Family History – The Family and Ancestry of Jay Roscoe Rhoads,” “Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots and Barren County, Kentucky Deeds 1798-1813.” She also is editor of The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and a contributing writer for The Maine Genealogist.

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Hatcher will speak on “Producing a Quality Family History” at 8:45 a.m., and “Look Again! What Did You Miss?” at 3:15 p.m.

The annual meeting is at 10 a.m., and lunch at 11:30 a.m. Vendors will have books and other items to sell, and costumed storyteller Marian Novak will tell the story of her relative, Charles Osbourne Libby, including his Civil War service, at 12:30 p.m.

At 10:30 a.m., there is a choice of workshops:

. “Documentation – More Than Just a Source,” Patricia Law Hatcher.

. “Getting Started,” Phil Getchell, genealogy instructor.

. “Researching with Newspapers,” Roxanne Moore Saucier, Family Ties columnist for the Bangor Daily News.

. “This Blank Book Before Me: The Diaries of Mary Pride Knight and Persis Sibley,” Jean Hankins, historian.

At 1:45 p.m., the choice is:

. “Turning Paper into People – Adding Context,” Patricia Law Hatcher.

. “Maine Families in 1790,” panel discussion.

. “Windows to the World – Card Catalogs,” Susan McCarthy, reference librarian.

. “Seafaring Family Links: Births, Marriages and Deaths under Unusual Circumstances,” John Battick, historian, genealogist, professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine.

To pre-register, write SRV Chaper, MGS, c/o Flossie Dere, P.O. Box 342, East Wilton, ME 04234. Please note your choice of workshops. The registration fee is $25 for the public, $20 for Maine Genealogical Society members, by Aug. 23. At the door, the fee will be $30.

Lunch is an additional $6, prepaid only. Choose chicken salad sandwich or cheese-vegetable sandwich, and chicken or vegetarian soup.

For more information, e-mail Flossie@megalink.net or cpatten@tdstelme.net, or visit www.rootsweb.com/~megs/MaineGS.htm and select “society meetings.”

Hope to see you there. Come along and meet some cousins.

If you’ve seen the bronze bronco standing in front of Hampden Academy, or the bronze wildlife statues in the Hudson Museum at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, you know what a fine sculptor Forest “Toby” Hart is.

I can remember, in the early ’70s, stopping by Hart’s studio with my husband, when it was on Bomarc Road in Bangor. Many of the pieces he was working on then were taxidermy, an art which certainly informs the sculptures he makes today.

Now Hart has given a bronze moose to help the Hampden Historical Society raise funds through a raffle. Tickets are $10 each and must be purchased by Aug. 1 to qualify for the Sept. 22 drawing. To get your tickets, send a check to the Hampden Historical Society, P.O. 456, Hampden, ME 04444, or call Jerry Stanhope at 862-3463.

The Kinney Family Reunion, for the descendants of Israel and Susannah (Hood) Kinney, will be held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at the home of John and Jeanette (Kinney) Cakouros, 102 Thwing’s Point Road, Woolwich.

There is room for those who wish to put up tents or park recreational vehicles Friday and Saturday nights.

For information, contact Jeanette at 443-5893, or jcak@wiscasset.net; or Geraldine Kinney, P.O. Box 81, Casco, ME 04015; or Duane Crabtree at (781) 646-5288, or dcrabtree@rcn.com. Please RSVP.

The Maine Old Cemetery Association held its spring meeting May 31 in Poland Spring. Upcoming meetings are:

. July 19, Richmond.

. Oct. 11, Dexter.

3238. SILVA-CURTIS. Would like to correspond with my relatives of Gladys (Silva) Curtis, also md. a Reed. Gladys b. 1920-1922. Had Richard and Elton or Blackie Curtis, my second cousins. J.E. Deacon, 111/2 North Van Buren Ave., Apt. 303, Freeport, IL 61032.

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04401; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.