{"id":1628,"date":"2009-03-02T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2009-03-02T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:58:36","slug":"seminar-wrap-up-for-the-dupage-county-il-genealogical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Wrap-up for the DuPage County (IL) Genealogical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a short trip to the Chicago area, where I had the privilege of speaking to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcgs.org\/\"> DuPage County (Illinois) Genealogical Society<\/a>. I spent the entire day lecturing, speaking on four of my favorite topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Witness &#8211; An Often Overlooked Source<\/li>\n<li>Using Tax Records to Establish Relationships<\/li>\n<li>Chasing Women &#8211; Finding the Women in Your Pedigree<\/li>\n<li>Flames Over the Courthouse &#8211; or &#8211; Your Ancestor Was Not Lost in the Courthouse Fire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The exhibit hall had a good mix of vendors including:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VENDORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maiasbooks.com\/\">Maia&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogs.com\/\">Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagebooks.net\/\">Front Page Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genline.com\/\">Genline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytreetours.com\/\">Family Tree Tours<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeclaremont.com\/\">Lake Claremont Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/photografix.pro\/PGX\/Welcome.html\">Photo Grafix<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Slideshows of Memories<\/li>\n<li>Stitched for You<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SOCIETIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~ilcaggni\/\">CAGG-NI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csagsi.org\/\">Czechoslovak American Genealogical Society of Illinois (CSAGSI)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilfvgs.org\/\">Fox Valley Genealogical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~ilsgs\/\">Illinois State Genealogy Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gen@chicago-scots.org\/\">The Scottish Genealogy Group of the IL St. Andrew Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want to publicly thank the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcgs.org\/\">DuPage County Society<\/a> for inviting me to speak, and handling the sales of Dollarhide&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/category.php?cat=dollarhide%20titles\">Census Substitutes &#038; State Census Records<\/a> publications. This allowed me more one-on-one time with attendees between lectures. I didn&#8217;t bring any home with me &#8211; they all sold!<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank the gentleman from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~ilcaggni\/\">Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois<\/a>,&#8221; who loaned me his Mac for the day, after mine failed me. I didn&#8217;t get his name, but without his help, I&#8217;d have been in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to Jeff and Barb Bockman, who put me up for a couple days prior to the conference. I had a good time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1607\">running around the cemeteries<\/a>, and visiting with both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers were Jeff Bockman, Don Litzer, Craig Pfannkuche, and Lesley Martin. A crowd of over 200 people turned out to go to classes and browse the exhibit hall. A good time was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>I had so much fun, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to solicit a bit more speaking. If your society would like to have me come to your area, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org\/member_details.php?member=MeitzlerL\">my Genealogical Speakers Guild page<\/a>. By the way, my lecture fees are very reasonable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a short trip to the Chicago area, where I had the privilege of speaking to the DuPage County (Illinois) Genealogical Society. I spent the entire day lecturing, speaking on four of my favorite topics: The Witness <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1628\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Seminar Wrap-up for the DuPage County (IL) Genealogical Society<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}