Convention News
2010 Convention
PLACE AND TIME |
Edmonton, Alberta
August 13, 14, 15
2010
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HOTEL VENUE |
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)
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FEATURING |
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
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Past Convention Reports
2009 Convention - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Report
2008 Convention - Kelowna, British Columbia (no report submitted)
2007 Convention - Calgary, Alberta
Report and pictures
2006 Convention - Edmonton, Alberta
Report and pictures
2005 Convention - St. Paul, Minnesota
Report and pictures
2004 Convention - Calgary Alberta
Report and pictures
2003 Convention - Edmonton, Alberta
Report and pictures
2002 Convention - Regina, Saskatchewan
Report
2001 Convention - Tacoma, Washington
Report
Conventions of Related Societies
Federation of East European Family History Societies - to be advised
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - AHSGR 2010 August 1 to 8, Lincoln, Nebraska
Germans from Russia Historical Society - GRHS 2010 July 21 to 25 - Bismarck, North Dakota
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