Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Migration through the South Our own Jim Thornhill will look at what motivated our ancestors to come to America, how travel developed in the United States, focusing on the south, and how we can use that information to identify the means our ancestors might have used to get to where we live today.

Jim Thornhill Jim Thornhill has been researching his family’s history for 15 years, three of those as a professional genealogist. Jim is chief researcher for Heroes of the Past, a company that seeks to delight clients, provide context in our ancestor’s lives, and show how we all have Heroes in our Pasts.

Jim is a graduate of the ProGen professional genealogy course, the Genealogy Proof course, and has been awarded the Birdie Monk Holsclaw Scholarship to IGHR in Athens, Georgia. Jim is an active member in the Association for Professional Genealogists, the Texas State Genealogical Society, the Dallas Genealogical Society, where he serves as IT Administrator, and the Rockwall County Genealogical Society, where he serves a Vice President in Charge of Programming.

Jim is a native Texan who has been living in the Dallas area his entire life, and has roots in pre-Civil War Texas. Both his and his wife’s family came to Texas in the same ways he will discuss in his presentation.