The Heritage of Cebu

Allow me to repost an announcement that was posted in Skyscrapercity Forums:

Family history is an important aspect that needs to be studied in order to fully understand the role of a family vis-à-vis the society. It is also a key in knowing who one’s ancestors are and helps one understand his/her bloodline and other interesting information that could help unlock mysteries that have long been forgotten in the collective memory of a family.

Learn the secrets in doing a research about your family’s history through a seminar-workshop to be facilitated by Dr. Michael Cullinane and Dr. Resil Mojares. The facilitators are both respected scholars in Cebuano history and society.

The facilitators will teach participants about the sources where to cull information about one’s family and how to do a genealogy or a systematized recording of data about one’s family which is vital in understanding the role of our family in society and ourselves.

This seminar-workshop, organized by the heritage-advocacy group Hamiling Binilin (Hambin), which is based at the Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos, is slated on Saturday, 16 August 2008, from 8 am to 5 pm at the Cathedral Museum of Cebu.

Workshop fee of Two Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P2,500) is inclusive of kit, lunch and snacks. There are limited seats available. An early registration of Two Thousand Pesos (Php2,000) is acceptable until August 8, 2008. Please contact the USC History Department for details at phone no. 253-1000 local 161 and look for the undersigned.

Tentative Parts of the Seminar:

I. Doing Genealogical Research
II. Using Non-Genealogical Sources
III. Constructing Family History

Resource persons would include: Dr. Resil Mojares, Dr. Michael Cullinane & Mr. Todd Sales

Time: Aug 16, 2008 8 am to 4 pm
Venue: The Cathedral Museum of Cebu
Registration Fee: Php 2,500
Early Registration: Php2,000 (until August 8, 2008 only)
Inclusive of a.m. & p.m. snacks, lunch and seminar kit

(Note: The usual HAMBIN forum will follow at 4:30pm, same venue & admission is already free. Topic will be “The Myth of Portuguese Ancestor: the Velosos of Cebu, 1800-1900” by Dr. Michael Cullinane)