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The Annual Family History Conference

 

40th Annual Conference

Saturday, 15 May 2010

J. Mark LoweWe are excited to announce that our featured speaker for the event will be J. Mark Lowe, is a full-time professional genealogist, author, and lecturer who researches primarily in original records and manuscripts throughout the South. Mark has published articles in the Association of Genealogical Societies (APG) Quarterly, North Carolina Genealogical Society Quarterly, SPEAK!, The Longhunter, and other genealogical society publications. His weekly local history article appears in the Robertson County Times.

As the Director of the Regional In-depth Genealogical Studies Alliance (RIGSA), Mark developed and directed (with the RIGSA team) week-long interactive learning sessions and hands-on research focusing on original documents and manuscripts at regional archives in cooperation with the National Archives. He is an instructor at the Institute for Genealogical & Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University in Birmingham and at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy sponsored by the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA). He is the former vice-president of development for the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS), immediate past-president of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association. He was awarded the APG’s Grahame T. Smallwood Jr. Award in 2007 for personal commitment and outstanding service to the genealogical community.

In addition to Mark Lowe, the Conference includes other featured speakers:

Bruce Buzbee is the founder and president of RootsMagic, Inc. and the author of RootsMagic and Family Reunion Organizer genealogy software. Bruce is a nationally known speaker and the webmaster of Family-Reunion.com, the world’s most popular family reunion planning site.

John Dougan is the state archivist of Missouri and an advocate for free online access to genealogical records.

Eric Keith is the vice-president of marketing and sales of Footnote.com.

Patricia Luebbert is the senior archivist at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, where she supervises the reference area. She is a frequent speaker on genealogical topics throughout the state.

Steven Rowan is a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, specializing in European history. He has authored and/or translated eighteen books.

Russ Wilding is CEO of Footnote.com, having joined the company in November 1998.

Rounding out the program are the following local speakers:

Sandra M. BrunsmannHughes is an international speaker, author, genealogist, and consultant. She serves StLGS as the leader of the Irish SIG.

Bob Goode, a retired history teacher, is the current StLGS vice-president-membership. He is the author of the monthly “Web Resources” column in the StLGS newsletter and frequently lectures and teaches genealogy/computer classes. During his leisure time, Bob is working on writing his family history.

Dan Vornberg has been researching his own family background for thirty years. He has researched in the Salt Lake City Family History Library, Allen County Library, the Federal Archives and numerous courthouses and has attended many St. Louis Genealogical Society conferences. He has been lecturing and sharing research methods with St. Louis and Jefferson County audiences for the last five years.

Ann Barberis Wittenberg is an active member of the German SIG and the StLGS publicity committee. She is a former StLGS treasurer and currently works in real estate.

Gems of Genealogical Wisdom will be an all-day event with concurrent one-hour lectures. The keynote speaker, J. Mark Lowe, will focus on Southern research, with talks on North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and migration. In addition, there will be talks on two major genealogical electronic resources: RootsMagic and Footnote.com, ethnic research, library resources and Missouri laws. Just getting started? There is a class for beginners as well.

This all-day conference is the largest such single-day event in the Midwest. This year’s conference features nationally-recognized speakers, outstanding local speakers, a large and bustling vendor area, and an optional lunch.

Click here for a copy of the booklet that contains details about the day’s program and a registration form.

Audio CDs for this year’s Family History Conference are not available for pre-sale. Check Back for information about the CDs that will be recorded and available until September 1st.



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Nearly every year since 1970 the Society has hosted an all-day genealogical conference.  Historically, it has been the largest such single-day event in the Midwest. 

The Conference features one or more nationally-recognized speakers, several outstanding local speakers, a large and bustling vendor area, and an optional lunch.


For a history of the Society's Family History Conferences, click here.