[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 2006 SGGEE Convention Announcement

[Miles Ertman]

2006 SGGEE CONVENTION

Edmonton, Alberta, August 11-13



The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE) provides a  
forum for people interested in the ancestry, culture and history of  
Germans, particularly from Volhynia, in the northwestern part of  
present-day Ukraine, and those from historical Russian Poland.  It  
also strives to assist with other neighbouring interests in Podolia  
and Kiev provinces in Ukraine, West and East Prussia, Posen, and  
Silesia, as well as the German states from which their ancestors  
emigrated.  Most of these Germans are Lutheran but there are also  
significant numbers of Baptists and Moravian Bretheren.  The Society  
will hold its 8th annual convention, “Moving Forward by Looking  
Back”, at the Coast Terrace Inn, Edmonton South, August 11-13.

Presentations will cover a wide range of genealogy topics.  The  
following is a partial list of speakers and topics.  More information  
is available on the SGGEE website:  www.sggee.org under “convention”.

·    Ron Brown, “Satellites and Settlements”, This presentation will  
discuss the use of satellite imagery in genealogy and the  
availability of these data.

·    Carol Burns and Karl Krueger, “DNA and Genealogy in Eastern  
Europe:  Do We Share a Common Ancestor?”

·    Jerry Frank, “500 Years, A Genealogical Journey Through Time”,  
Quirks, tips, tricks, serendipity and stories - not so much a "how  
to" as a narrative to offer encouragement and hope for those  
struggling with their search.

·    Jutta Missal, “Phonetics and Transcription, How a ‘wrong’  
pronunciation or transliteration can lead to frustration”

·    Jutta Missal, “With Hand Carts and by Train, How our ancestors  
left their homelands”.

·    Jutta Missal, “The meaning of Miller,  About the origins of  
family names”.   With special attention to Germans from Eastern Europe.

·    Ron Neuman, “The Search for Cousin Fred”.  Ron shows how he  
traced his Neuman ancestors back to Volhynia and Russian Poland using  
local and internet resources

·    Dave Obee, “Two Dozen (or more) ways to research Germans from  
Russia”

·    Dave Obee, “Adventures in Volhynia”, a travel log filled with  
photographs and stories from Dave’s many trips to Volhynia   which  
will be presented during the Saturday evening banquet.

·    Bill Remus, “How your ancestors ended up in Volhynia and how to  
find them in the records”





The SGGEE library will be available and there will be a vendor area  
where you can purchase maps and books.  The research and library area  
will have wireless internet access and will feature the following:

·       Access to SGGEE’s unique and extensive pedigree database  
containing more than 340,000 names.  Many of these names have been  
extracted from Polish and Volhynia church records and cannot be found  
in any other internet database.  Experts will be on hand to help you  
search the database.

·      Photocopies of the St. Petersburg Volhynien church records  
from 1847 to 1885.  The St. Petersburg records may also be searched  
using SGGEE’s unique internet search tool.

·      Gazetteers and maps to locate the village of an ancestor.  
Experts will be available to help you locate villages.

·      Birth, marriage and confirmation records from 1920 to 1944 for  
eastern Volhynia

·      Karl Stumpp village record lists of settlers in various  
eastern Volhynia villages

·      Experts available to assist in translation of documents  
written in the old Gothic German script as well as in Polish and to  
some degree, Russian

·      Experts present to help in getting past dead ends as well as  
offering general information on further research.



We invite you to join us in Edmonton for a weekend packed with  
genealogy sessions and networking!  Non-members are welcome.



Location:  Coast Terrace Inn Edmonton South

                           4440 Gateway Blvd.

                           Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                           Reservations:  1-888-837-7223

                           Hotel Website:  www.coastterraceinn.com



      Mention SGGEE" to get the special convention hotel rate.



Information and Registration forms may be downloaded from the SGGEE  
website:  www.sggee.org under “convention”