The following news release was received from NEHGS:
Family History Day – October 16, 2010
NEHGS and Ancestry.com invites you to join us for our second Family History Day on Saturday, October 16th at Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center Boston. Come and explore the world of genealogy, listen to engaging lectures, meet with expert staff, digitize your important family documents, and learn more about how the incredible resources at NEHGS and Ancestry.com can help you find your family.
Whether you’re new to family history or have been researching for many years, this one of a kind event promises to deliver an experience for every genealogist.
Make plans to join us for an incredible day of family history fun. Our first “Family History Day” sold out quickly. SPACE IS LIMITED: so we encourage you to register early to guarantee your spot.
To register or learn more visit http://www.familyhistoryday.com/
Questions? E-mail: info@familyhistoryday.com
I attended the classes on searching ancestry that included customizing the home page, and I also attended the class on insider search strategies. I went home and then discovered that many of these things taught in the classes do NOT apply to ancestrylibrary.com which we have in our library and pay a lot of money for. We cannot customize the home page or get the drop down boxes for the search options such as soundex etc. I feel like I wasted my time and money in these classes to a great extent. I was hoping to learn more in order to share info with our library patrons in a demo for those who come into the library to use ancestrylibrary.com. So much time was spent on the personal version of ancestry or the individual subscribers version.