Post Conference Work

Midge Frazel
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It is often said that the work of genealogy is never done! After the NERGC conference, there is much 21st Century genealogy to be done. The social networking of genealogists is to be encouraged with the posting and tagging of photos, responding with thank-you's to those who spoke and email collaborations with those who mentioned intriguing ideas in sessions or in line waiting for breakfast.

Upon returning home, many decisions are to be made about the direction that professional genealogists are to make. I so love the gravestone work, that I am going to place a focus on that and work more on the technology side of genealogy.

I purchased RootsMagic 4 and am starting to learn it. I'm tired of the problems with Family Tree Maker (which I have used for many years) and using PAF {Personal Ancestral File] just doesn't seem good enough anymore. For a long time, I have posted my tree to Ancestry.com and will continue to do so, exporting it frequently to GEDCOM and bringing it into a desktop application. The folks at RootsMagic have produced a quality product and I will be occasionally posting about how it will be helping me with my gravestone research.

New goals, new adventures....

NERGC 2009 Badge

NERGC 2009 Badge
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I returned home on Saturday afternoon from the NERGC (New England Regional Genealogical Conference) in Manchester, NH. I did a presentation for LTD (Librarian and Teacher Day) on Digital Storytelling on Thursday, attended sessions on Friday and Saturday morning.

When I go to Ed Tech Conferences, I take a photo of my badge as they are dated and then I can always remember the dates of the event.

The shiny sticker indicates that I am a Facebook member.

Arrived In New Hampshire

I have traveled to NH for a genealogy conference. The weather at home was sunny and quite warm but as we neared the NH border it got overcast then rainy and chilly. The hotel is meshed with the conference center but nothing is set up as yet. People are milling about and we ate supper in the place in the hotel and my husband remarked that he could hear words like generation and record in the conversation around him!

I can report that genealogists are chatty and many who are here early are the dihards of this type of conference. A real New England bunch!

Mentioned by Dick Eastman....

Some time back I set up a Google Alert for my own name because it is easier that performing a Google Search for myself. (That's called ego-surfing, btw)!

Much to my delight, I just got an alert of myself being mentioned at the famous Dick Eastman's genealogy blog for the upcoming NERGC conference in Manchester, NH.

Wow....