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From: "Nancy Fredenberg" <>
Subject: [DVHH] Genealogy conferences abound
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:30:04 -0400

For those not able to travel to Germany for the Akdff Conference, there are
loads of upcoming genealogy conferences in the U.S. scheduled for April May
&
June:

Monday, 2 April 2007, 7:30 pm, the East Cuyahoga Genealogical Society, will
have their regular meeting at Ross C. DeJohn Community Center, 6306 Marsol
Drive, Mayfield Heights, OH. "Hiding behind their Skirts: Finding Women's
Records" will be presented by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG. For more
information contact or write to the society at PO Box 24182,
Lyndhurst, OH 44124-0182.

Thursday, 11 April through Saturday 14 April is the Ohio Genealogical
Society Annual Conference which will be held this year in Columbus, OH. Six
lectures are offered each hour by many national speakers. No registration is
required to peruse the vendor hall which is free to enter. For more
information and a downloadable brochure, see www.OGS.org or phone
419-756-7294.

Thursday, 26 April through Sunday, 29 April is the New England Regional
Genealogical Conference which will be held in Hartford, CT. Six lectures per
hour will be presented by many well-known New England and national speakers
including Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, Cyndi Howells, and Henry Z "Hank"
Jones, Jr., FASG. The vendor hall is open to the public. This major New
England conference is held about every other year and so this is your chance
to catch it in Connecticut. For more information see www.NERGC.org.

Wednesday, May 16 through Saturday May 19 in Richmond, Virginia, the
National Genealogical Society will have its annual conference. With 10
lectures per hour given by the experts in our field, this conference is the
ultimate in genealogical learning opportunities. There is no fee required to
enter the vendor hall and family history fair to browse the hundreds of
genealogical products, books, and software. For more information go to
www.NGSgenealogy.org.

Saturday, June 9, from 9 am to 4 pm, the Erie Society for Genealogical
Research will have a one-day seminar featuring 2 talks each by Dick Eastman,
Steve Morse and Jim Beidler at the Blasco Memorial Library, 160 E. Front
St., Erie. Registration is $40 for non-members (including membership) and
$35 for members plus lunch for $8 and $4 for a Friday night tour. For more
information write the society at P.O. Box 1403, Erie, PA 16512 or email
. The website is www.pa-roots.com/~erie/2007GeneConf.html.

Sunday, June 10 to Friday, June 15, the Institute for Genealogy and
Historical Research will be held at Samford University, Birmingham, AL with
11 various week-long courses being offered. Sign-ups are limited with some
courses already reaching their maximum attendance. Some courses are offered
only every 2 or 3 years so please consider attending if you see one of
interest at http://www.samford.edu/schools/ighr.

June 22 to 24, 2007 2007 Palatines to America National Conference and Annual
Meeting at WVU Evansdale Conference Center, Morgantown, WV. "Echoes from the
Past". Featured Speaker is Professor Roger P Minert, Ph.D., A.G., with
material on various aspects of life for our German-speaking ancestors and
German family research. Also hands-on Internet Genealogy Classes in the
Computer Lab, migrations patterns, early German settlements, the craft of
Scherenschnitte (German papercutting) and more. An information brochure and
mail-in registration is available online at http://www.palam.org. Phone:
614.267.4700. E-mail: . It is rare that this national
conference comes this close to Pittsburgh - the last one was in 1994.

Sunday, June 24 to Friday June 29, 2007, the Ohio Genealogical Society will
conduct its Summer Workshop at its library headquarters, 713 S. Main St.,
Mansfield, OH 44907. This year the workshop will feature nationally known
speakers who will cover many topics of interest to Ohio and other
researchers such as cemeteries, land records, church records, vital records,
internet update, immigration, and military records. Presentations will also
cover Pennsylvania, Virginia, New England, and German, Italian, and
Scots-Irish research among others. The workshop will have problem-solving
time after each session and a chance to consult with the experts and a
dinner with discussion led by Shirley Hodges, President of the Genealogical
Speakers Guild. The OGS library will be open late Sunday through Thursday
evenings exclusively for the workshop participants, which is every
genealogist's dream - to be "locked in" to a library! For more information,
see www.OGS.org, or e-mail Deborah Lichtner Deal, , or
call the Ohio Genealogical Society at (419) 756-7294.

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