Quebec Trip August 2008

Visit Quebec on its gala 400th birthday ! Join us for a step back into our founding ancestors' daily lives; walk their journey with us. Visit: Musee de la Civilisation, de 1'hotel-dieu de Quebec, Centre d' Interpretation de Place-Royale, Urban Life Interpretation Centre (Ville de Quebec), Musee des Augustines de 1'Hopital general de Quebec, Musee de I'Amerique francais Quebec Seminary, The Citadelle/Royal 22 Regiment, and Musee des Ursulines; and a day of research at Laval University.

Fees: $4 to $8 per musee per person. Also, New France Festival week.
Sunday, August 3, 2008 - through - Saturday, August 9, 2008

Prices for double occupancy rooms at Hotel Delta Quebec - $850.00 -may be less if a larger group goes this year.
Travel: via leased vans - pick up in West Hartford , CT, Springfield, MA, and Rockingham, Vt; more can be added if along the I 91 corridor.
Twenty or more will get us group rates into all museums. Thirty or more will enable us to go by chartered coach, once again, and reduce the price per person for all. Invite your relatives and friends.

$100.00 deposit per person due by May 1st, 2008 Balance due by July 3, 2008.
For questions and more information, contact Bobbie Paradis
baparadis@hotmail.com

New England Regional Genealogical Conference April 2009

DISCOVERING FAMILY TREASURES
Discovering Family Treasures, to be held April 22-26, 2009 at the Expo
Center of New Hampshire and Radisson Hotel in Manchester is the tenth
New England Regional Genealogical Conference and will build on NERGC’s
tradition of excellence in providing genealogical lectures, seminars
and workshops; the Ancestors Road Show; a Society Fair; and banquets
and luncheons for new and established genealogists alike at minimal
cost. The excitement for Discovering Family Treasures is already
building. Watch our Website: www.NERGC.org for developing
information.

HEADLINE SPEAKER PROFILE: JAMES L. HANSEN
Among the myriad of professional genealogists who will be making family
history presentations at NERGC 2009, there will three national headline
speakers, one of whom will be James L. Hansen, a Fellow of the American
Society of Genealogists. As a genealogy reference librarian with the
Wisconsin Historical Society, Hansen has a broad range of genealogical
experience that comes with serving a diverse clientele.

ROAD SHOW SPOTLIGHT: OUR NATIONAL SPEAKERS
The Ancestors Road Show is one of the many benefits for those attending
the NERGC conference. From thorny research problems that refuse to be
solved to brick walls that seem insurmountable, this is your
opportunity to “hire” a professional to review and give you advice on
your problem during a twenty-minute consultation.

The Road Show is pleased that NERGC’s three national speakers will each
spend an hour at the Road Show offering suggestions and help to
conference attendees.

James L. Hansen, F.A.S.G, reference librarian and genealogical
specialist at the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society since
1974, assists several thousand researchers a year in their genealogical
and historical research. At the Road Show Jim will offer help in
Midwestern research, Canadian (especially French-Canadian) research,
census research, newspaper research, Medieval genealogical research and
‘frontier research” which he defines as being any area and time period
where the records are particularly sparse and challenging to locate.

Megan Smolenyak is Chief Family Historian and North American
spokesperson for Ancestry.com and co-founder of Roots Television. She
is the author of several books and numerous articles, lectures widely,
and conducts research for the U.S. Army and television programs. At
the Road Show, Megan will consult on DNA, finding the living, Eastern
European immigration, newspapers, African –American research, and
Ancestry.com and other online resources.

Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, is co- editor of the National
Genealogical Society Quarterly. Recently retired from his teaching
career at Gallaudet University, Tom is now working full time in
genealogy. He is a popular lecturer and teacher at conferences and
institutes. Mostly a Southern and Scots-Irish researcher, Tom has done
genealogical research in Northern Ireland and all over the U.S.,
including every New England state. Tom will be available to answer
questions on writing, editing and certification as well as tackling
“brick-wall” problems.

If one of these consultants can help you in your genealogical quest,
get your thoughts on paper and be ready to sign up when email
registration begins in March 2009. Check the NERGC website,
www.NERGC.org, for additional information as it becomes available.

EXHIBIT HALL
The Manchester conference will have a total of 73 booth spaces for
exhibitors. As of Saturday, 26 April, 25 booth spaces, just under
one-third, have been bought. These spaces will be occupied by:

New England Historic Genealogical Society

Godfrey Memorial Library

Jonathan Sheppard Books

American French Genealogical Society

Photo Detective

Just Black and White

Massachusetts Genealogical Council

New Hampshire Society of Genealogists

New England Chapter of APG

American-Canadian Genealogical Society

Board for Certification of Genealogists

Rhode Island Genealogical Society

Paul Bunnell

The Gravestone Girls

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