Sep 5, 2006
George and Drew return from Boston with a report of highlights from
the 2006 Federation of Genealogical Societies conference.
George also talks about the urgent petition regarding a proposed
reduction in NARA research hours
(www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006/petition.html) which must be
submitted no later than September 8; the brochure for the Genealogy
Guys' 2007 Research Tour to London is now online (see the menu on
this site); George points out a serious problem with the way
ProQuest is applying updates to the PERSI database; and the
locations of the next two FGS conferences are announced.
Information about the Association of Personal Historians conference
(www.personalhistorians.org) in Portland on October 4-8 is
provided, and George mentions a name thesaurus
(www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.asp).