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AFFHO Congress In New Zealand Draws to a Close Lessons to be Learned from the AFFHO Congress (+) From Lloyd's Library: Is There Really a Record? NEHGS Adds 5 Million New Searchable Names Online More Recent Articles Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - 4 new articles AFFHO Congress In New Zealand Draws to a Close The Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations (AFFHO) has been holding a "Congress" for the past five days. The event was packed with presentations, seminars, dinners, a cocktail party, a Maori welcome, and more. However, nothing lasts forever. The Congress wound down on Tuesday afternoon with speeches and a very interesting Maori ceremony, although quite different from the one held at the opening. A bunch of smiling genealogists filed out of the FindMyPast Hall and... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • Lessons to be Learned from the AFFHO Congress WARNING: This article contains personal opinions. As I mentioned in another article, the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations (AFFHO) "Congress" is now finished. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this five-day event in Auckland, New Zealand and must say that I learned a lot. In fact, I think there were a few lessons here for all genealogy conference organizers. I have written before about the skyrocketing expense of attending genealogy conferences.... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • (+) From Lloyd's Library: Is There Really a Record? The following article was written by Lloyd Bockstruck: Recently a genealogist shared with me her dilemma about locating documentary evidence of her ancestor's military service. He was supposedly a veteran of the Mexican War with the surname Osborn, so she examined the index to Mexican War pension files in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Staff at the archives had indexed the records in a card file, and the index had been microfilmed. Later, no less than three different... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • NEHGS Adds 5 Million New Searchable Names Online The following announcement was written by the New England Historic Genealogical Society:Boston, MA – January 2009 – New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) announces the addition of 5 million names to its databases during 2008 to help its more than 23,000 members around the country with their family history research. The new data includes more than 1 million new Massachusetts records and more than 3 million records to the Social Security Death Index database. The NEHGS... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • More Recent Articles (+) Casefile Clues: Working with Directories by Michael John Neill Geni.com Obtains $5 Million in VC Funding The Ethnic Origins of U.S. Presidents (+) Along Those Lines... by George G. Morgan: Alternate Proofs of Birth IGS Seeks Newsletter Editor AFFHO Congress (Continued) with a Remote Lecturer Pitfalls That Can Create Brick Walls or Cause You to Claim the Wrong Ancestors Kia Ora from the AFFHO Congress This Newsletter is Thirteen Years Old! 2010 NGS Family History Conference-Call for Papers

 

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