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CONFERENCES

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The Chapman Family Association (CFA) meets each year in June. Each conference is intended to bring together members of the various Chapman families to discuss our research efforts, share ideas and techniques, and develop methods each of us can use to enhance the breath and depth of our family lines.

Conferences: Programs

CONFERENCE DATES AND INFORMATION

2026 CHAPMAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Via ZOOM on June 20, 2026

         

Unfortunately the planets did not align properly and due to an unexpected sequence of events the Chapman Family Association will not be hosting an in person group conference this year.

We will host a virtual Annual General Meeting for CFA members via ZOOM on Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT, 1:00 PM CDT, 12:00 MDT and 11:00 AM PDT.  For those in Arizona, parts of Indiana and Hawai'i, I'll leave it to you to figure out.  Hope to see all our active CFA members then.

If you haven't joined CFA yet, please consider visiting the "Join or Renew Page" and become an active member by either joining as a NEW member or RENEWing and old membership to get your name on the ZOOM invitation mailing list.

If you have questions, comments or experience conducting ZOOM conference calls please contact us at info@chapmanfamilies.org.  If you plan to join the call you will need to install ZOOM on your computer and be a bit familiar with navigating in the app.  

2027 CFA CONFERENCE

There are tentative plans for a Chapman Family Association conference in June, 2027.  The planned location for the 2027 conference is the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library, the site of the 2026 National Genealogical Society conference in May of this year.

In 2027 we will get together for some interesting presentations and information sharing in the morning on Friday and our General Meeting on Saturday morning. Our afternoons will be spent doing research at the Genealogy Center.

Links from the 2025 conference

Presentation:  Coming to America:  Major Migrations From Europe 1620-1924 

By Kathy Chapman

Video Recommendations:
  Pilgrims:  PBS American Experience documentary  "The Pilgrims"
 
  Puritans:  American Ancestors "English Immigration to the American Colonies"

                  "Early Migrations Into and Out of New England"  

  Scots-Irish:   American Ancestors  "The Scots-Irish inn America:  Origins and Migrations"
 
  Irish Potato Famine:   the movie  "Black 47", 2018, directed by Lance Daly

  German 1848 Revolution:  "The Revolutions of 1848" 

  Swedish Migration:   The movies "The Emigrants" and "The New Land", 1971 and 1972, directed by Jan Troell

 
Italian migration:   "The Godfather" movie trilogy (Part 1 (1972), Part 2(1974), Part 3 (1990) directed by Francis Ford                                             Coppola

  Eastern Eoropean/Russian/Jewish migration: 
  The movie "Fiddler on the Roof" 1971, directed by Norman Jewison
  

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