The following announcement was just received:
National Genealogical Society is excited to announce a Free Tour of Ancestry.com and an opportunity to Digitize Your Family Records at the NGS 2010 Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah 28 April—1 May 2010.
Take a Free Tour of Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is thrilled to offer complimentary tours of Ancestry.com [...]
Most of you know that the National Genealogical Society Conference this year will be held here in Salt Lake City (April 28-May 1). But you may not know that the conference locations for 2011 and 2012 have also been selected. They are:
2011: Charleston, SC - May 11-14
2012: Cincinnati, OH - May 9-12
Mark your calendars!
UPDATE: 12-31-09: 12 pm MST - The NGS website issues have now been resolved. The following was just received:
The NGS website technical issues have been resolved and access to the Members Only Section has now been restored.
The following was just received from NGS:
The NGS website is experiencing technical difficulties due to a network outage [...]
If you have New Jersey ancestors, you may want to get a copy of “Research in New Jersey,” written for the NGS Research in the States” series by Claire Keenan Agthe. The following is excerpted from the December 16, 2009 “What’s New at the National Genealogical Society?”
Just in time for Christmas, the latest NGS Research [...]
The National Genealogical Society announces the release of Paths to Your Past, a twelve-minute video documentary available online (www.ngsgenealogy.org) and on DVD, in which noted genealogists and family researchers tell why they are passionate about researching their family history.
Paths to Your Past was produced by award-winning cinematographer Allen Moore at the NGS Family History [...]
The following announcement was received this morning:
Mark your Calendar for the 2010 Family History Conference, “Follow Your Ancestral Trail”, which will be held 28 April—1 May 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Whether your family helped settle the nation, migrated across the country, stayed in the same place, or recently arrived in America, [...]
The annual NGS Newsletter Competition has now begun, with a deadline for Submissions of 31 December. The competititon is meant to recognize the hard work, long hours, and creativity that editors devote to their newsletters.
The Categories are as follows:
Major Genealogical and/or Historical Societies
County/Local Genealogical and/or Historical Societies
Family Associations
The Prize
The winning society or association [...]
More genealogy-related organizations and communicators are moving to a blog format for communicating with their membership and subscribers. Thinking back in time, Dick Eastman was one of the first with wide readership to make the move to a blog. I believe that was about 2004. Now I see that the National Genealogical Society [...]
I just signed up for booth space at the 2010 NGS Conference here in Salt Lake City - that runs from April 28 through May 1, 2010. Plan to come see us at booths 204, 206, and 208 - directly across aisle 2 from the massive Ancestry.com booth.
We plan to have a good supply [...]
Exhibit booth sales for the 2010 NGS Family History Conference will open at 12am Eastern Time today.
Exhibit booths for 2010 are $270 for a regular 10×10 booth, and $210 for a society 10×10 booth. The Exhibit hall will be at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Please see [...]
The National Genealogical Society Genealogy Hall of Fame program honors outstanding genealogists whose achievements in the field of American genealogy have had a great impact on our field. The 2009 selection is Willard C. Heiss, an Indiana Quaker scholar. He was born in 1921 in Randolph County, Indiana, and attended Indiana University, and during [...]
Now that we have the National Genealogical Society conference in Raleigh in the history books, we’re looking forward to conferences in Salt Lake City and Charleston.
The 2010 Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah
The National Genealogical Society will be combining international lectures with hands-on research labs at the Family History Library. [...]
The National Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that nationally renowned filmmaker Allen Moore is producing a video for NGS that will motivate viewers to become interested in their family history and direct them to NGS. Portions of the video will be filmed at the upcoming NGS 2009 Family History Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, [...]
Dick Eastman just posted an excellent blog that deals with cutting your costs while attending the upcoming National Genealogical Society Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina (May 13-16, 2009). He’s checked out 10 local hotels - and lists their locations, rates, addresses, phone numbers, websites, Internet access, and other stuff. Check out his blog.
The following is directly from UpFront with NGS, Volume 9 # 9, February 2009:
Proposals will be accepted from 1 January to 1 April 2009 for the 2010 NGS Family History Conference, “Follow Your Ancestral Trails,” to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, 29 April to 1 May 2010. Salt Lake City is a place [...]
