A Moving Experience
I’ll start this week’s newsletter off with a personal note: I’m moving. I will now have a house with lots of green grass all around, a workshop and also plenty of room for the computers and my genealogy files. The new place is about three miles from the apartment where I have been living.
I dread the thought of packing, transporting and unpacking! I once swore that I would never move again, but here I sit in the midst of packing boxes.
Don’t be surprised if the next newsletter or two is late or skipped entirely. If I get busy painting rooms and unpacking boxes, I may not have time left over for writing newsletters!
To anyone who has my old mailing address: Contact me privately and I’ll give you the new address. My telephone number, FAX number and e-mail address all remain the same.
Generations Grande Suite 6.0
This week SierraHome announced the release of Generations Grande Suite 6.0. I haven’t seen the latest version yet, but it sounds like a powerhouse. The program is a package of several things, covering 15 CD-ROM disks.
The following is an extract from SierraHome’s announcement:
This 15-CD set gives families access to: a professional search from among 1.5 billion names; digitized census records on CD; a free, private family website; more than 400 million CD and Internet-searchable names and resources and the most flexible charting options for family data. Generations Grande Suite is simply the largest combined collection of CD and Internet family history data available in a retail CD-ROM product. Generations Grande Suite also includes advanced tools for restoring and preserving photos and sharing family recipes.
Generations Grande Suite users receive a free trial membership to Ancestry.com(R), the premier resource for tracing family history online; a premium membership to MyFamily.com, which offers password-protected, family websites; and one-click access to CyndisList.com, the leading genealogy portal on the Web, including more than 54,000 continually updated genealogy links.
More Names and Resources to Expedite Family Research
Generations Grande Suite now includes 15 CDs packed with valuable data to speed research and guide families through the process of tracing their roots from their home PCs. Generations Grande Suite users also receive a free professional search from among 1.5 billion names by Heritage Quest in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unlike other genealogy software products, Generations Grande Suite points users to family information indexed from a variety of different sources and publishing companies, including data from CDs, books, microfiche and the Internet. Families can access more than 500 Million Names through the included CD-ROM databases and direct Web links.
Internet Research with Help from the Professionals at Ancestry, Cyndi's List and MyFamily.com
Generations Grande Suite makes Internet research easier for beginners through one-click access to leading websites Ancestry.com, Cyndislist.com, and MyFamily.com. Users can instantly search
names on Ancestry.com, explore more than 54,000 genealogy-specific Web links on Cyndislist.com and create free, password-protected family websites on MyFamily.com.
Easy to Organize and Navigate Family Trees
With Generations, users can archive names and facts about ancestors in an easy-to-read and search family tree. Data from other genealogy software programs can also be quickly imported, using the GEDCOM file exchange format. Unique capabilities of Generations include relationship indicators that identify the relation of one family member to another and helpful card markers which allow users to group together family members for easy reference such as common birth places or medical history correlations.
Most Flexible Charting Program Available
After family data is compiled, creating a family tree chart to communicate the information is easy. No other product on the market offers the creative flexibility of Generations. Generations produces a variety of different chart types including pedigree, descendant, timeline, enhanced hourglass charts, and many more. Users are empowered with creative versatility through click-and-drag editing, resizable pictures and various line and font widths. With Generations, each family tree chart will have a unique and personalized look. Users can add unlimited photos or digitized documents like birth certificates and immigration records to create unique and memorable keepsakes. If the chart requires multiple pages, users can also rearrange the layout of text and images by simply dragging and dropping to avoid page breaks.
SnapShot® Express for Restoring and Preserving Family Photos
With SnapShot Express, Generations users have the ability to repair precious family photos and documents that have been torn, scratched or discolored, and add them directly to their family charts. SnapShot Express allows users to store and organize photos in digital albums, edit out red-eyes, sharpen blurry images, correct over-exposure, adjust brightness, contrast and color balance and add text to any picture. Users can even create customized scrapbook pages, frames and other projects.
MasterCook™ Heritage Edition for Saving and Sharing Family Recipes
MasterCook Heritage Edition contains more than 800 traditional recipes from a variety of countries. Users may add family recipes to the MasterCook database, or send favorite recipes over the Internet to friends and family members. Recipes can also be instantly scaled for any number of guests, and users can create beautifully customized recipe cards and cookbooks of their family's favorites or foods their ancestors might have enjoyed.
Generations Find Your Roots: The First-Ever Weekly Genealogy Webcast
In a pioneering development, Generations offers users a connection to a live family history talk show broadcast weekly over the Internet at www.sierrahome.com/familytree. A combination of the standard, call-in radio talkshow with text chat, pictures and Webcam, this unique world-wide broadcast over the Internet gives users the opportunity to discuss their research and ask questions of noted genealogists, archivists, authors and other guests.
Pricing and Availability
Generations Grande Suite 6.0 is now available on CD-ROM for Windows 95/98 at an estimated street price of $79.95. Generations Grande Suite 6.0 is available, in retail stores nationwide, at http://www.sierrahome.com, or by phone at 800-757-7707. Other products in the Generations series include Generations Deluxe and Generations Easy Family Tree.
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
I recently had an interesting conversation with Steven A. Zedeck. Steven suggested that I write about a major project called Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland). I told Steven that I had only cursory knowledge of the project. I then suggested that Steven could write a much more authoritative article than I ever could. He soon responded with the following:
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland)
The goal of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland) is to create a World-Wide-Web - based, searchable database of the indices of 19th century Jewish vital records from current and former territories of Poland. Where such records are available, they may include towns that are now part of Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. The website can be found at: http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL
In 1994, several researchers "met" via the Internet. All had a common interest to make the task of locating Polish-Jewish vital records more accessible. In 1995, Stanley Diamond of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Steven Zedeck of Nashua, NH and Michael Tobias of Glasgow, Scotland started the Russian Era Indexing of Poland Project (REIPP), now known as Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. Zedeck and Tobias not only had a deep interest in the records of this area, but also had the technical skills to bring the project to life. Diamond became Project Coordinator in January 1997. JRI-Poland is managed by a board of volunteers.
JRI-Poland has two major components. The first is the indexing of the LDS microfilmed records, comprising about 2,000 films from more than 500 towns and villages. The second component, launched in early 1998, is the JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Project. While the LDS films contain approximately two million records, there are an estimated additional five to seven million 19th century records that were not filmed. Generally, these cover the last 25-35 years of the 19th century, when many of our grandparents and great-grandparents lived in Poland. Only records more than 100 years old are available for this indexing project.
The JRI-Poland database has grown steadily and now includes indices to 500,000 vital records from more than 115 towns. Most of the work on the microfilmed records is done by volunteers organized into Shtetl CO-OPs; some of the difficult Cyrillic script entries (from the post-1867 Russian years’ registers) are in the main transliterated by professionals whose work is funded by contributions from both individuals and groups of Jewish genealogists. Indexing of records in Poland is by Warsaw-based professionals, funded by researchers around the world.
JRI-Poland is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
There is a wealth of information at the JRI-Poland website. The JRI-Poland searchable database is one of the largest databases on JewishGen ( http://www.jewishgen.org ).
STANLEY M. DIAMOND
Stanley M. Diamond, MBA Harvard, is founding president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, and Project Coordinator of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. Diamond has a particular interest in genealogical research related to genetics that ultimately led to the creation of JRI-Poland. He is the genealogist for the international team doing research related to his family’s novel mutation of the beta-thalassemia genetic trait and is co-author of a scientific paper related to the project, "Probable Identity by Descent and Discovery of Familial Relationships by Means of a Rare Beta-Thalassemia Haplotype" Human Mutation 9:86-87 (1997). As part of his research, Diamond is documenting the rare incidence of the beta-thalassemia trait in Ashkenazic Jewish families of the Diaspora. Diamond was the founder and Chairman of the Intalite International Group of Companies from which he retired in 1986.
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
The mission of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland) is to create a searchable database to the indices of available 19th century Jewish vital records from current and former territories of Poland. In addition to its increasing importance to genealogical research of vital records, JRI-Poland has been recognized by the international medical and scientific community because of the potential benefit of the database for Ashkenazic families trying to trace their medical histories, particularly those at increased risk for hereditary conditions and diseases.
JRI-Poland can be found at; http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL. Steven A. Zedeck can be reached at: saz@jlc.net
"The Family History Experience" Birmingham, England
The Society of Genealogists will hold "The Family History Experience" at the NEC in Birmingham UK on September 25th & 26th. This reportedly will be a major new event in the family history calendar. "The Family History Experience" will be much the same as the London Fair held in May with lectures and computer demonstrations, and with many Family History Societies participating.
The Society will soon be publishing the programme of events on their website at: http://www.sog.org.uk/events/fhe.html. However, when I looked at the site this week, the listing still had not been posted. I did obtain a preliminary listing, however, and can publish it here. Keep in mind that it may change slightly at the last minute; keep an eye on the Society of Genealogists’ website for up-to-date information.
Saturday: Stream 1
11:00 - 12:00 Researching in the Birmingham Central Library- Doreen Hopwood & Peter Drake
12:15 - 1:15 Internet for Beginners – Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake
1:30 - 2:30 The LDS 1881 Census Index and BVI on CD ROM – Barney Tyrwhitt- Drake
2:45 - 3:45 Basic Use of Computers for Family Historians – Jeanne Bunting
4:00 - 5:00 Searching for Genealogy on the Internet - Iain Kerr
Stream 2 (at the same times as above)
Introducing the Guild of One Name Studies - Alec Tritton
West Midlands Sources in the Library of the SoG – Else Churchill
London Pride: Researching at the London Metropolitan Archives -Mick Sott
Using the Family record Centre and the GRO Postal search service – Audrey Collins
Scottish Family History – Marjorie Moore
Stream 3 (at the same times as Stream 1)
Publishing Family History – Kevin Tomes
Making Use of the Census – Sue Lumas
Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archives Service – Mrs. D. M. A. Randall, Head of Archives Services
Searching for Christenings, Marriages and Burials – Peter Park
The Federation of Family History Societies –Richard Ratcliffe
Sunday Stream1
11:00 - 12:00 Internet for Beginners - Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake
12:15 - 1:15 The BMSGH – Researching in the West Midlands
1:30 - 2:30 Searching for Genealogy on the Internet - Iain Kerr
2:45 - 3:45 I'm Stuck – Geoff Swinfield
Stream 2
Using the SoG Library - Sue Gibbons
Publishing your Family History on the Web – Iain Kerr
An introduction to Irish Family History - (Fintan Mullan)
Genealogy Packages – Alec Tritton
Stream 3
What can be done from Home - Marjorie Moore
Newspapers and Directories – Lilian Gibbons
Worcestershire County Record Office
Presenting Your Family History - Sue Gibbons
In addition to this, there will be a 2-hour course each day on both Basic Family History and Basic Computing for Family History.
The Computer Group will also have a programme of demonstrations, two running concurrently, on most of the popular Genealogy packages and also scanning, digital cameras, the Internet, the SoG on-line bookshop, the 1881 census, utilities for the 1881 census and other conversion utilities.
On the Sunday at 9 am (before the public are let in) there will be a special demonstration of the SoG on-line bookshop - aimed at the Family History Societies who cannot get to the normal daytime demonstrations.
In addition, Jeanne Bunting of the Society of Genealogists reports:
We are in desperate need of member volunteers from the Birmingham area to help with stewarding duties, etc. If you can offer 4 hours or more on either day, you will get a free entry ticket.
If you can help, please e-mail Marjorie Moore (marjoriemoore@compuserve.com) with the following details ASAP.
1. How many days can you help?
Friday afternoon general help, plus stuffing about 5,000 bags with a variety of leaflets. Saturday - we are open to the public 1000 - 1800 hrs Sunday - we are open to the public 1000 - 1600 hrs
2. What duties are you prepared to do? Frank Hardy gave a list in the original appeal.
3. Your full postal address, telephone number.
4. Method of travel to Birmingham.
There are still some vacancies for exhibitors, so if you belong to a Family History or Local History Society or know of companies in the area with skills allied to Family History and they are not taking part, then lobby them to do so. More information from info@sog.org.uk
West Surrey Family History Society Computer Conference
Another seminar being held in England sounds interesting. The West Surrey Family History Society will hold a Computer Conference on Saturday, 30 October 1999, at Bishop Reindorp School, Larch Road, Guildford. There will be a very full programme of Lectures, Demonstrations & Workshops
Places will be limited and must be booked. Full details, including the complete programme, are available at: http://www.connexions.Dabsol.co.uk/conference.html
The FreeUKGEN Initiative
Much of this week’s news seems to come from England. One item that caught my eye is called "The FreeUKGEN Initiative":
FreeUKGEN is an initiative aimed at helping make high-quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available online, in a coherent, easy to access and search, information retrieval system.
Specifically, FreeUKGEN aims:
to provide facilities, tools and support for (i) a set of indexing and transcribing projects, each aimed at a particular class of genealogical record, and using the Internet for communication, and coordination among the volunteers involved, and (ii) online access to the results of these projects. The actual projects will we expect be carried out either by existing volunteer-based organizations, such as Family History Societies, or new volunteer groupings set up for a particular project. To promote, among the organizations and individuals involved in such projects, good use of relevant computer science techniques, e.g. concerning interfaces, databases, data interchange protocols, and system design generally, and to encourage projects to be technically forward-looking in such matters. It similarly intends to promote and facilitate current best practice in organizing and carrying out indexing and transcription projects so as ensure high data quality. To encourage the growth of worldwide volunteer efforts, and make good use of these efforts, e.g. by reducing accidental duplication of transcription and indexing, and by facilitating access to the overall set of information resources that are produced, e.g. by the use of modern database technology and search techniques. FreeUKGEN, as well as the projects which it sets up or which choose to make use of its services, are and will remain entirely dependent on the efforts of volunteers and sponsors all over the world.
There is a lot more information available about FreeUKGEN at: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/FreeUKGEN-FAQ.html
Another ALA "Best Reference" Award
Last week I wrote about the American Library Association’s 1999 awards for "Outstanding Reference Sources for 1999." I mentioned a genealogy-related book that was listed as an award winner. Now I am told that a second book is also on the list.
"Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History" by Mark D. Herber also won the prestigious award. I haven’t seen the book myself, but I am told that it is a highly accurate and well executed volume of 688 pages. The book is published by Genealogical Publishing and sells for $34.95 U.S. funds.
For more information about "Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History", look at: http://www.genealogybookshop.com/genealogybookshop/
files/The_World,Great_Britain_British/2691.html
"Our Loose Ends"
"Our Loose Ends" is a genealogy column written by Lynna Kay Shuffield and published in the Taylor Daily Press newspaper in Taylor, Texas. Lynna is very knowledgeable about a wide variety of genealogy topics. She has also published several books on Texas genealogy and military history. Now her weekly newspaper column is available online.
To read "Our Loose Ends", look at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/
Academy/2670/COLUMN-001.htm
Who Is the Biggest?
One reader of this newsletter challenged a statement that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I wrote "Author Cyndi Howells is well known to readers of this newsletter. She compiles Cyndi’s List, the largest listing of genealogy-related websites available today." I’ll quickly admit that I was quoting a statement in a press release, and at that time I believed the statement about being "the largest" was accurate.
In fact, there are three large collections of links to genealogy-related websites. This week I decided to see which one is the largest. Here is what I found:
Cyndi’s List at http://www.CyndisList.com proclaims, "More than 54,650 links!"
The Genealogy SiteFinder at: http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/links. This site proclaims, "A comprehensive directory of genealogy sites on the Internet, featuring 71,829 categorized and cross-indexed links with full descriptions, brought to you by genealogy.com and Helm's Genealogy Toolbox." The Genealogy Gateway also has a huge collection of genealogy-related links at http://www.gengateway.com. Owner Steve Lacy declares, "Well Over 70, 000 Resource Listings". So which site really has the largest collection of genealogy links? I don’t know. I certainly am not going to count them myself! And I don’t know of any auditor’s report available on them either.
Whichever one is truly the largest, I have to say that all three of them are valuable sites for any genealogist. You might want to take a look at all three.
Ancestry.com, Inc. Closes $33.2 Million in New Funding
Ancestry.com, Inc. has announced the completion of a $33.2 million second round of financing. Led by Tango of Boulder, Colo., the oversubscribed second round of financing also included investments from Group Arnault, America Online, Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, Pivotal Asset Management LLC and Amerindo Investment Advisors, Inc. First round investor @Ventures, the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI, also participated in the second round to maintain its significant equity interest. Further financial details of the investments were not disclosed.
The interesting part of the announcement (in my mind) was that two of the investors also are identified as business partners of Ancestry.com. I wrote a few weeks ago about Ancestry.com’s alliance with Compaq, but now the company is referring to America Online as a business partner.
To date, Ancestry.com, Inc. has raised $45.5 million in venture financing.
New Computer is the Size of an Aspirin
"How do you get an elephant into a matchbox ?
You first take out all the match sticks, then you get it in.''
Someone has now squeezed a computer into a space smaller than a matchbox. In fact, a normal matchbox could contain several such computers! A complete Web server now is the size of one match-head.
The single-chip computer runs the iPic Web server, the world's tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and an HTTP Web server. The chip is a complete microcomputer, and it includes all components of a complete computer on one single tiny microchip [including the CPU (central processing unit), memory, serial port interface circuitry, and clock oscillator]. The chip is connected directly to an Internet router, which is essentially the same as an Internet connection from an ISP.
This inexpensive device could be used for many tasks other than that of a Web server. It could usher in a new generation of connected home appliances, from VCRs to coffee makers to small cameras, controlled over the Internet from almost anywhere.
"The implications of this are more than a silly little competition among a bunch of researchers,'' said H. Shrikumar, who studies specialized machine automation at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. "This has tremendous application in the way it might change our lives.''
The tiny computer is connected to the Internet from Shrikumar's apartment near the university. It includes a tiny 4-megahertz processor he bought for 49 cents and a small 32-kilobyte memory chip that stores World Wide Web pages and other data. Shrikumar said his computer can be built for less than $1, making it practical to install the devices in a variety of home electronics and appliances. Some existing appliances, such as modern thermostats or newer coffee makers, can be programmed individually. But appliances connected via the network could communicate with each other even if made by different manufacturers.
"This was just a fun hobby project,'' said Shrikumar, who expects to graduate next year. "It caught my attention and demanded that it be done.'' He is not sure what he will do once he leaves school. "There are lots of things one can do,'' he said. "It's a big world.''
You can read a detailed description of the aspirin-sized computer at: http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html. Then you can connect directly to the tiny computer by pointing your browser to: http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic-demo.html.
Upcoming Events
The Upcoming Events section of the newsletter is published once per month. Each event will be listed very briefly: title, date(s), location, and sponsoring organization, all followed by either an e-mail address or a Web page that you can use to find more information. Since detailed information is available via e-mail or the Web, I will not list the details in this newsletter. If you do contact any of these organizations, please tell them where you heard about the event.
Here are the listings, arranged by date. An asterisk indicates a new listing that has been added since the last time this list was published:
The Searching For That Elusive Irish Ancestor 1999 Family History & Heritage Conference will be held in Belfast and in Dublin, Ireland September 7 through 14, 1999. The conference will concentrate on making practical use of the genealogical research sources available to the family historian in both cities. Delegates will have ample opportunity for guided research at the main archives and repositories in addition to lectures, tours and entertainment all at no extra charge. Details are available at: http://www.uhf.org.uk
The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society, Inc. is sponsoring a conference on genealogical research featuring Mr. George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D., one of America's Foremost Genealogical Speakers. Sessions will focus on "American Land Grants", "Obscure Genealogical Sources", and "Researching in Burned Out Counties". The conference will be held in Salem, Oregon Saturday, September 11, 1999. For details contact jwillhit@orednet.org.
The Gloucester County Historical Society of Woodbury, NJ is sponsoring a Heritage Quest Genealogy Road Show on September 11, 1999. For more information, look at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njglouce/gchs/.
The Anchorage (Alaska) Genealogical Society will sponsor the all-day Everton's "Discovering Your Heritage" Workshop, Saturday 11 September 1999 in Anchorage. For information, send an e-mail to: MDuel@Juno.com.
The Eli and Mae GARMAN Family Reunion will be held on September 12, 1999 in Independence, Kansas. Details are available from: cgarman@horizon.hit.net.
STEWART/STUART Family Reunion 1999 will be held Sunday, Sept. 12, at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi. For further information, send an e-mail to:jbstu@juno.com.
The Colorado Genealogical Society/Computer Interest Group will present their 8th Biennial Symposium, "Helping Genealogists Use Computers" on September 17th and 18th, 1999 in Denver, Colorado. For additional information, contact:: schetter@worldnet.att.net
The New England Historic Genealogical Society is hosting its Fourth Annual "Irish Genealogical Conference" in Randolph, Massachusetts, on September 17 and 18, 1999. The conference will feature nineteen lectures specifically on Irish genealogical topics. Details are available at: http://www.nehgs.org
An Everton Workshop will be held 18 Sept. 1999 in Prineville, OR; hosted by the Crook County Genealogical Society. For further information, send an e-mail to: drussell@bendnet.com
A reunion of the descendants of John Rooney and Mary Clark Rooney will be held in Sacramento, California on September 18, 1999. Related families, Clark, Lynch, Devlin, Codd, Garland are welcome. For more information, contact seebou@mail2.quiknet.com
The Heritage Hunters group of Saratoga County, NY will hold an informative and fun day called "Ancestor Connection Day." Numerous presentations will be made by well-known speakers. Details are available from: unlimitd1@juno.com
The 25th SEABOLT Family Reunion will be held in Vogel State Park, Georgia on September 18 and 19,1999. For information, contact harsea@aol.com.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society will present "Computer Resources for Genealogists" at The Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston, MA. Participants may choose to attend the day-long seminar on either September 24 or September 25, 1999 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Speakers will include Rhonda McClure, Steve Kyner and Dick Eastman. Details are available at: http://www.nehgs.org.
The Slippery Rock Heritage Association will hold their Annual Heritage Festival on September 24 through 26, 1999. It will be held in conjunction with the Slippery Rock University Homecoming Weekend Celebration.
The American-Canadian Genealogical Society Fall Conference will be held in Manchester, NH on September 24, 25 and 26, 1999 The agenda will include Stephen White and his new "Dictionary of Acadian Families". Details are available at: http://www.acgs.org.
The "Make Mine Maryland" genealogy conference, sponsored by the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, will be held September 24-27, 1999 in Annapolis, MD. Full details are available at: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4256/gensoc.htm.
The First (Australian) National Family History and Heraldry Fair is scheduled to run in the September school holidays; 24th September - 3 October 1999 at the historic Beechworth Campus of La Trobe University. For more information, contact the Manager Campus Information and Convention Centre at: cicc@latrobe.edu.au
*The Society of Genealogists is holding 'The Family History Experience' at the NEC in Birmingham, UK on September 25h and 26. A large number of presentations will be made. Details are available from: info@sog.org.uk
The annual ESKRIDGE Family Association reunion will be held Friday and Saturday, October 1-2, 1999 in Richmond, VA. Activities include a business meeting, a program on "Using Technology in Genealogy" and other technology workshops as well. For details, contact: GenSeeker1@compuserve.com
The Victoria Genealogical Society will hold an all day seminar on October 2, 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia. The program will feature Cyndi Howells. For details, see: http://www.islandnet.com/~vgs/
The Boston States Migration Workshops and Genealogy Fair - Eastern Canadian Provinces, New England and New York States migrations will be held on October 2, 1999 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Details are available at: http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/CRM.htm
WESLEY Family Reunion 1999 will be held Oct. 2, Saturday in Pearl, Mississippi. For additional information, contact: jbstu@juno.com
The Elgin, Illinois, Genealogical Society will hold its Ninth Annual Chester A. Bowser Memorial Program October 2, 1999 with 5 lectures presented by James W. and Paula Warren. Details are available from: bpartridge@FoxValley.net
*The Berkshire Family History Association will hold their Annual Seminar XVI, Western Massachusetts - Gateway To The West on Saturday, October 2, 1999 in Lenox, Massachusetts. For further details see: http://www.berkshire.net/~bfha/announce.htm
*The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society will sponsor an October Workshop on 2 Oct 1999 in Spokane, Washington. Details are available from: Rock-n-o@worldnet.att.net
The Alford American Family Association, Inc. (including Alvord, Halford, Alfred, etc.) will hold it's 12th annual meeting and national "Alford" family reunion October 8-10 in San Antonio, Texas. Details are available at: http://www.alford.com/alford/aafa/homepage.html
The annual BOBO Family Reunion will be Oct. 8-10, in Huntsville, AL, and in Lynchburg, TN. For information, send an e-mail to: FamilyBOBO@aol.com.
The McHenry County, Illinois Genealogical Society will host "Genealogy On The Internet With Cyndi Howells" on Saturday, October 9, 1999, in Crystal Lake, IL. For additional information look at: http://nsn.nslsilus.org/clkhome/mcigs/
The South Carolina Genealogical Society’s 1999 Annual Meeting will be held at Hilton Head Island on October 15-16, 1999. A pre-conference will be held October 13-15. Details are available at: http://www.heritagelib.org
An October Seminar will be sponsored by the Genealogy Friends of Plano (Texas) Libraries, Inc. on October 16, 1999. The seminar will feature Helen F. M. Leary, speaking on "Clutching at Straws and Other Last Ditch Efforts: A Workshop in Genealogical Problem Solving." Details are available at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4167
*The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society will hold a Genealogy Seminar on 16 Oct 1999 inSpokane, Washington. For more information, contact: Rock-n-O@worldnet.att.net
*The Alabama Genealogical Society, Inc. will have its annual Fall Seminar on Saturday, October 16, 1999, in Montgomery, Alabama. The guest speaker will be Marilyn Miller Morton, retired Executive Director of the Samford Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research and founder and retired director of the Samford University British and Irish IGHR. Details are available from MarthaGeyer@juno.com or lalinecanderson@juno.com
*The Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc. will hold their twenty-fourth annual meeting on October 16, 1999 in Taunton, Massachusetts. A large program is planned. Full details are available from: cooke@tiac.net
*The "Come Home to DELAWARE" Genealogy Workshop, cosponsored by the Delaware Genealogical Society and the Historical Society of Delaware, will be held Sat., Oct. 16, in Wilmington, Delaware. Speakers will include: Kellee G. Blake, National Archives; Donn Devine, CG, CGI; and Tom Gladwell, Gettysburg historian. For details see: http://delgensoc.org/dgswork.html
The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society will hold an all-day seminar on Saturday, October 23, 1999, in Trappe, PA. The program includes a number of speakers discussing German genealogy research in Pennsylvania. For details contact: jsheviak@aol.com.
The annual CAREY/CARY Family Reunion will be held in Ocean City, Maryland, 23-24 October 1999. For information, contact: Amagnolia@aol.com
The Florida State Genealogical Society will hold its 23nd Annual Conference October 29 and 30, 1999 in Sarasota, Florida. The featured speaker will be Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. For more information, send an e-mail to: kleback@bellsouth.net
*The Texas State Genealogical Society will hold its 39th Annual Conference in Victoria, TX, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30, 1999. Featured speaker on Saturday will be Dr. George K. Schweitzer. For information contact: wdonaldsn@aol.com
*The West Surrey (England) Family History Society will be holding a Computer Conference on Saturday 30 October 1999 at Bishop Reindorp School, Larch Road, Guildford. There will be a very full programme of Lectures, Demonstrations & Workshops. Details are available at: http://www.connexions.Dabsol.co.uk/conference.html
The Ingham County (Michigan) Genealogical Society presents "A Genealogical Seminar" on Saturday, November 13, 1999. Speakers will be Shirley J. Hodges and Jana Sloan Broglin.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society is offering its annual "Research Program to Salt Lake City" from November 14-21, 1999. This program brings the experience and knowledge of the society’s research staff to The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, which houses the world's largest collection of genealogical data. Details are at: http://www.nehgs.org
GENTECH, a nonprofit volunteer organization, and the San Diego Genealogical Society will host GENTECH2000 "Bridging the Centuries: Bringing Genealogy and Technology Together" in San Diego, California on 28-29 January 2000. A large program is planned. Details are available at: http://www.gentech.org/
The McAllen Genealogical Society will hold its annual all-day seminar Saturday, February 5, 2000 in McAllen, Texas. Henry Z (Hank) Jones, the featured speaker, will present four informative and fun lectures. For details, contact: ecmacey@ibm.net
*ROOTS XVI, the 16th annual all-day seminar sponsored by The Genealogy Workshop of the Huntington Historical Society, Huntington, New York, will be held April 29, 2000. For information, send an e-mail to: wchamber@suffolk.lib.ny.us
*The Ontario Genealogical Society will hold Seminar 2000 at the Ottawa Congress Centre in Ottawa on May 12-14, 2000. Details are available at: http://www.cyberus.ca/~ogsottawa/sem2000.htm
The Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies will host its Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Conference, 22-23 September 2000, Lakewood CO. Featured speakers will be Cyndi Howells, Henry "Hank" Jones, and Christina Schaefer. For details, contact: pakemper@aol.com.
If you would like to see your event listed, send an e-mail to: meetings@rootscomputing.com. You must include either a Web page that gives details or an e-mail address for the organization or for someone within the organization who is willing to supply the meeting details upon request. Please limit your listings to events where you expect 100 or more people to attend.
Home Pages Not Highlighted
This week’s newsletter is already huge with the listing of upcoming events. I’ll skip the new home pages this week and make a double listing next time.
To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: http://www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. Due to the volume of new Web pages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter.
To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: http://www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. Due to the volume of new Web pages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter.
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