This week's news includes: The Association of Professional
Genealogists (APG) recognized genealogists with achievement awards
at the FGS Conference in Philadelphia; FGS also recognized two
outstanding awards at the same conference; The Genealogy Seminar at
the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, IN, is holding
Military Symposium 2008 on 26 and 27 September,
with speaker Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CL, from
NARA; the
PublicProfiler site (
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Main.aspx)
allows you to enter a surname and view a map showing the
distribution across the world and statistics.
Reader email this week includes: Loretta asks a question about the
meaning of a tattoo; Sherry asks about locating older birth records
in Texas and Indian Territory; Barb relates a story of how being in
a particular place and time can inextricably alter your family
history; and Barbara asks questions about Ancestry.com's World
Archive Project. (Listen to the interview with The Generations
Network's CEO, Tim Sullivan, in episode 150.)
Drew interviews J. Mark Lowe, CG, at the FGS Conference. Mark is a
candidate for president of the
Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS).
The Guys discuss the success of their local society's recent gala
50th anniversary banquet and annual Fall Seminar with Paula
Stuart-Warren, CG.