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Richard L. Hooverson
701 Lake Road
Belton, Texas 76513
254.939.7794
haaver@vvm.com
Richard L. Hooverson, owner of Out of the Past, has been a professional genealogist for eighteen years. His special interests are migration routes, ethnic settlement patterns, social history, and Texas and the Southwest. He served two terms on the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board and was named a Fellow of the Texas State Genealogical Society in 2003. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Presentation
A Fast Ride through Texas: Researching the Lone Star State
The public image of Texas is many things—Hispanic, Anglo, Southern, Western, sprawling, rugged, sun-baked, rebellious, bombastic, violent, urbane, oil-rich, populist—but Texas is actually a state of mind, a myth, a dream, and a place where truth is stranger than fiction. This presentation identifies thirteen historical periods and thirteen factors of interest to genealocal researchers.