Saturday afternoon:
I have just returned from the annual genealogy conference held by my local/county genealogical society (Fairfax Genealogical Society). Although the research focus for most of the membership is for American and European ancestry, there is always something to gleam regarding research techniques, which are of course, useful for any research. Because we are just outside Washington, DC, many nationally known researchers/authors, etc are often presenters at our conferences (they may be in the area working on research of their own). The out-of-town speakers were Jana Sloan Broglin, George G. Morgan (he does the “Genealogy Guys” podcasts), and Laura G. Prescott. Two other speakers – Linda Jonas (specializing in Colonial America and British genealogy) and Chuck Mason (a frequent contributor to the NGS news magazine) are members of our society. The conference offered 20 presentations, and it was hard to pick just four.

Saturday afternoon:
I have just returned from the annual genealogy conference held by my local/county genealogical society (Fairfax Genealogical Society). Although the research focus for most of the membership is for American and European ancestry, there is always something to gleam regarding research techniques, which are of course, useful for any research. Because we are just outside Washington, DC, many nationally known researchers/authors, etc are often presenters at our conferences (they may be in the area working on research of their own). The out-of-town speakers were Jana Sloan Broglin, George G. Morgan (he does the “Genealogy Guys” podcasts), and Laura G. Prescott. Two other speakers – Linda Jonas (specializing in Colonial America and British genealogy) and Chuck Mason (a frequent contributor to the NGS news magazine) are members of our society. The conference offered 20 presentations, and it was hard to pick just four.
I had an opportunity to speak to Claire Kluskens, from NARA, who is working on the border-crossing records – the filming and related work (indexing/?) is progressing – SLOWLY; there are ALOT of records (she has been working on this project for at least 5 years).

Does ANYONE know of any HISPANIC GENEALOGY conferences that are planned in the next 18 months (I need a lot of planning time) – anywhere???

Thanks – have a good rest of the week-end.
Natalie in VA