That is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Registration opens at noon EST for six wonderful courses that are being held in Pittsburgh from July 20-25, 2014. Can’t make it that week? Another edition of GRIP will be offered the first week of August in the Detroit area. Details are on the GRIP website for those […]
I just returned from a long trip that was mostly business related but I also enjoyed a few days in the warm sun of Arizona. The four days there went by too fast and I returned to snowy and cold Minnesota. I was in many states on this driving trip: Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, […]
So, how would you pronounce the Minnesota city name of New Prague? I can always tell when a new person is on a weather or newscast here. They usually pronounce it New Prahg. It’s actually pronounced New Prayg with a hard g. City Pages has a neat article about “17 Minnesota cities and streets everyone […]
I have been asked to post the full live-stream schedule for this year’s RootsTech. It is available here. https://familysearch.org/node/2519.The listed times are Mountain Time Zone.
Were you unable to attend RootsTech in person this year? Did you know that some sessions are being live-streamed?Click here to see the live presentations https://rootstech.org/ today through Saturday.
It’s just two weeks till registration opens for the 2014 Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh that takes place at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh. The Institute dates are July 20-25 and registration begins on February 12th. The Institute’s website has some great tips to prepare you for the registration process. I hope to see many of […]
It’s just a bit more than two weeks till registration opens for the 2014 Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh registration. (Fondly known as GRIP) There are six courses from which to choose and students may stay in a college dorm. The dorm and classrooms are a very short walk from each other. The cafeteria is in […]
Yesterday’s Washington Post carried an interesting article about the preservation of languages including Native American languages. I can’t read or write any of these languages but often need to translate documents. I can use word lists and ask others for advice. The article “Smithsonian archives preserve lost and dying languages” is informative and exciting. “The […]
A week ago I was finished with the first day of teaching at the 2013 edition of SLIG. The week flew by and it now seems like a distant memory. That is sad because it was a fantastic week. I had a classroom full of wonderful adult students who participate in discussions, questions and the […]
It was 1982 or 1983. I was in the audience here in Minnesota listening to a genealogy lecture by a woman dressed in pink. All pink. That aside, she knew her stuff! Thirty years later, that lady, a special friend is gone. Joy Reisinger was her name. One of her specialties in the field was […]