A week ago I was in sunny Arizona to do a seminar in Sun City for the West Valley Genealogical Society. I had the opportunity to experience a tour of their library. Wow! It’s huge, has books, atlases, many computers, databases, space to research, and more. I think I could have spent several days there. […]
That is Tuesday, February 25th and registration opens at noon EST for six wonderful courses that are being held in suburban Detroit from August 3-8, 2014. I coordinate and teach in Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper. For my course, you also get to interact with Debbie Mieszala, CG, and Josh Taylor, MA, MLS. We […]
Due to the lost voice of the previous speaker, I have agreed to fill in and do the all-day seminar for the West Valley Genealogical Society (Arizona) this coming Saturday, February 22nd. I will be presenting these four lectures: 1. Genealogy and the Internet: Make it Work for You2. Major Midwestern Archives & Their Records3. […]
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 […]