I just returned from a week in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was a great week at the Federation of Genealogical Societies annual conference. Talk about wonderful! FGS and the Arkansas Genealogical Society did a bang-up job. I had the best room monitors I have ever experienced as a speaker. It takes a lot of volunteer […]
Don’t forget to register for the Minnesota Genealogical Society’s Northstar Genealogy Conference that is taking place September 18-19 in South St. Paul. Full details may be found by clicking here. Don’t be left out — this is a great event. The featured speaker is Claire Mire Bettag, CG,who is a well-known speaker based in Washington, […]
That is the headline from an article that tells how Barbara Bechtold Byrne (Bobbie) willed that $25,000 to the library in Newfields, New Hampshire. As the article on the Seacoastonline.com states: “The library was also a place where Byrne could delve into the books and historical records dedicated to two of her favorite topics — […]
You just received an email with an attachment. That attachment is a copy of your great grandparents marriage certificate. Maybe tomorrow you will find an online obituary that has some neat family details. As you look at the item your mind fills with ideas on research possibilities that flow from the details on the record. […]
Kay Rowan 16 November 1916 – 26 August 2000 (9 years ago today) with her grandniece Katie Warren Dougherty.
StoryCorps is coming to the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference: Make your reservation today! StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening, is coming to 2009 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 2-4. By recording the stories of our lives with […]
Back in the 1990s I was teaching a class at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. That was pre-PowerPoint days! I don’t remember what the class topic was but it included an overhead of a letter from a cemetery I had contacted in the 1980s. It was from Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. […]
I have received some questions in regard to my appearance on TV last week. A couple people want to know what a genealogical consultation is and how does it help someone working on their family tree. That’s an easy one to answer. It’s as simple as hiring a professional genealogist to sit down and give […]
I knew I had this picture somewhere. Organizing my bookshelves helped to find it. The 78th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is “Ride ‘Em Cowboy – Share Your Pony Pictures.” This event is sponsored by Jasia of the Creative Gene blog. I don’t always have the opportunity to participate in the various themes, special […]
It has been almost a year since we began telling people about the 2009 edition of the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Little Rock. The local host, the Arkansas Genealogical Society, is waiting for us. The Statehouse Convention Center is a beautiful place. Now it is less than 3 weeks till the conference begins […]