By Lynn Baker for The Island Connection

The Seabrook/Kiawah Island Genealogy Club, Digging Into Roots Together (DIRT), will host  “Genealogy Fair 2020” on Jan. 14, 2020. The event is planned from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Live Oak Room at the Lake House on Seabrook Island.

The theme of the free event is “Working Together – New Discoveries.” This will be

the kickoff of our 2020 season – our seventh year. Special guests from the Charleston Family History Center, the South Carolina Room of the Charleston Public Library, the Charleston Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution and others will be available to answer your questions. 

Anyone who would like to start or grow a family tree, understand DNA testing, learn how to do research or just digitize all those photos and documents should attend.

You’ll enjoy fun games, mapping your ancestors and getting to know others with the same interests, as well as establishing a place to start recording your own family history and genealogy. You will sit with others doing research in your area of the world and get to discuss breaking through brick walls. Free refreshments will be offered.

We are an active club with more than 50 members. Some are beginners and some are experts, but we all work together to enjoy this hobby. 

Please bring your friends who might be interested as well. If you are coming from off Seabrook Island, to obtain a gate pass, please send Lynn Baker an email (diggingintorootstogether@gmail.com) with your first and last name.

DIRT is open to all Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island and Kiawah River Estates residents. To learn more, visit diggingtogether.blogspot.com/.