WAG will meet August 7 in JC

By Staff Reports

The Watauga Association of Genealogists will meet at the Johnson City Public Library, 100 West Millard St., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, at 6:30 p.m.

The guest speaker will be Ned Irwin, Washington County’s first archivist and Jonesborough native. Irwin will give an “Update on the Washington County Archives.” He is a graduate of ETSU and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Irwin is past president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists, the Washington County Historical Association, the Tipton-Haynes Historical Association, a member of the Watauga Regional Library Board and former chairman of the Washington County-Jonesborough Library Board of Trustees.

Anyone interested in genealogy is welcome to attend. For additional information, please contact Jim Wilson at 283-0318.