Edmonton, Alberta

August 13, 14, 15

2010

Delta Edmonton South
4404 Gateway Boulevard
Edmonton, AB
T6H 5C2

Reservations:
1-888-890-3222 or
780-434-6415

(be sure to mention SGGEE to obtain convention rates)

 SGGEE LIBRARY:
 - numerous hard copy resources, books, maps, databases
 - computers with database resources not on line
 - assistance of many experts to help you through the maze of genealogical puzzles

 PANEL DISCUSSION:
 - featuring Sigrid Pohl-Perry, Ted Belke, Karl Krueger, Dick Stein, Gary Warner, Howard  Krushel and Rose Ingram
 - covering issues like the Lublin Indexing Project, St. Petersburg records, Databases,  Library, and LDS films of Warsaw Archives records

 SPEAKERS:

KATHLEEN KUFELDT - conducting family research interviews and writing family stories

ADOLF BUSE - "Circle in the Ferns"; origins, development and demise of German settlements in the Paproc Duza area, 1795-1939

SIGRID POHL-PERRY - "Translating Russian Cyrillic" based on materials taken from the Lublin Indexing Project followed by a second hands-on session to directly assist participants with their personal family records

GILBERT STELTER - German migration and development of urban areas (full description still to follow) and may include a pictorial tour of Volhynia

DR. FRANK STEWNER - Dr. Stewner is from German and will present, together with Gary Warner, on the use of SGGEE village location guidelines and gazetteers

EDIE ADAMS - "It Takes a Village"; explains how a 200 year family history opened up for her once she change her research focus from individuals to villages

RON NEUMAN - ever humorous and entertaining, Ron's session is not fully defined but may focus on his wife's Henkelman family and the use of nicknames in our culture

 

 BANQUET SPEAKER
 - tentative, Horst Gutsche, well known Germans from Russia researcher and translator