Family History Workshop XXIV

Let's Have a Tea Party: The British Are Coming
Family History Workshop XXIV

September 25,1999 Comstock Memorial Union 6th Avenue South and 14th Street
Moorhead State University

Workshop Schedule

7:55- 8:25	Lobby: Registration and Refreshments
8:25- 8:40	East Ballroom: Introduction and Announcements
8:45- 9:55	Room 101 The Myth of the Black Irish Peggy Smetana	Room 203 How Do I Interview My Family Members? Sharon Hoverson	Room 121 My Family Tree: Where Do I Start? Grace Cochran-Bobrowski	Room 205 Is There Folklore in Your Family History? Tim Kloberdanz	Room 208 Moving Grandma's World into the Nursing Home Bev Paulson	Room 227 Genealogy Resources on the Internet Dan Haglund
10:05- 11:15	Room 101 Wearing of the Plaid (Celtic) Peggy Smetana	Room 203 Upper Midwest Immigrants: Who Came and Who is Still Here Today? Fr. William Sherman	Room 121 How Do I Use the LDS Family History Center? Karen Vosburg	Room 205 Where Are Those Records of Your German Ancestors? Bernard Altenburg	Room 208 Were Your Ancestors Counted? Census Records Alice Ellingsberg	Room 227 More Genealogy Resources on the Internet Jeanne Alm
Noon	Father William Sherman: The Power and the Pattern
1:10- 2:20	Room 101 Ireland at a Glance Peggy Smetana	Room 203 Immigrants: Three Generations and How They Differ Fr. William Sherman	Room 121 How Do I Use the LDS Computer Resources? Chuck Walen	Room 205 Why British Places Have Viking Names Verlyn Anderson	Room 208 Is Your Research Ready for Writing? Tips & Guidelines Jim Puppe	Room 227 Where Do I Start with Family Tree Maker? Jeanne Alm
3:20- 4:30	Room 101 Czech Your Roots Peggy Smetana	Room 203 Scottish Research Neill Burnett	Room 121 Welsh Research Rick Crume	Room 205 Norwegian Research Verlyn Anderson	Room 208 Is Your Writing Ready for Printing? Tips & Guidelines Mathison's	Room 227 Advanced FTM-User Brainstorming Session Jeanne Alm

Workshop Speakers

Peggy Smetana	Jeanne Alm	Neill Burnett	Tim Kloberdanz
Fr. Bill Sherman	Bernard Altenburg	Rick Crume	Bev Paulson
	Verlyn Anderson	Alice Ellingsburg	James Puppe
	Mathison's	Dan Haglund	Karen Vosburg
	Grace Cochran-Bobrowski	Sharon Hoverson	Chuck Walen

Cost and Parking

Cost: $25 Includes lunch for those who pre-register and send payment by Friday, September 17, 1999. The $25 registration fee paid at the time of the workshop will not include lunch.

Parking: Park either in Lot A or C located at 9th Avenue South and 14th Street South adjacent to the Roland Dille Center for the Arts.

How to Find Us!

Award Entries

Entries for the following three awards should contain information of regional interest and should be received by September 1, 1999. The Heritage Education Commission will exhibit the submitted books and pamphlets and present the awards at the Family History Workshop luncheon. Write Heritage Education Commission, Box 401, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN 56563 for additional information.

Beverly M. Paulson Family History Book Award: This award is designed to encourage area genealogists to submit diaries, memoirs or journals which might be of use to historians, be of intrinsic literary worth and perhaps comprise the first step in developing more extensive family histories.

Audrey Zube Jones Family History Book Award: Area residents may submit duplicated family histories, genealogies or other books with family or genealogical focus.

G.K. Haukebo Heritage Resource Award: This award recognizes other projects of merit which assist family history researchers in locating genealogical materials of expanding their research skills. Card indices, computer databases, exhibits and videotapes are examples of acceptable formats.

Booths and Refreshments
Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom

Clay County Historical Society Chester Fritz Library, UND Concordia College Library Creative Memories Daughters of the American Revolution Fargo Public Library Genealogical Library Master Catalog CD-ROMs Germans from Russia Heritage Society Icelandic Klub of Fargo-Moorhead Lake Agassiz Regional Library LDS Family History Center Manitoba Genealogical Society Military Records North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU Northwest Minnesota Historical Society Ottertail County Genealogical Society Park Genealogical Books Probstfield Farm Project Red River Danes Red River Valley Genealogical Society Red River Valley Heritage Society Sons of Norway St. Andrews Scottish Society Swedish Cultural Heritage Society

Subject to change without notice

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